Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1952 — Page 25

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FRIDAY, FEB. 22, 1952 Fight to Cut Canada's Cigaret Tax |

OTTAWA, Canada, Feb, 22 (CDN) — A yearlong battle] against ‘“smugs” and taxes by Canada's tobacco growers has| come to a climax and maybe! triumph.

Tobaccomen in an attempt to up legal sales of smokes and put] “smugs,” smuggled cigarets out of business, want’ Finance Minister Abbott to reduce his high tax on the weed. : Their argument, skillfully ex-| ploited by a southern gentleman!

pected to be vindicated in the: ¢ form of a tax reduction in Mr.! ti Abbott's new budget, { . At 72, Mr. Gregory leads the Increasing a Times route from most vigorous pressure group tol 19 subscribers to 80 in five years besiege the goverment in years./is a pretty good record for a

Heads Tobacco Group {grade school boy. And that is just

what Alfred Brown did with his’

A nonsmoker himself, he's president of the flue-cured tobacco Foute on W. 23d, Pruitt, Herschell Marketing Association of On-land Harding Sts. and Riverside, tario, partly by virtue of his|prive. yeurs and eloquence, mainly be-| Besides that he has bought his, cause he's the world’s biggestiown clothes and saved $225 in| individual grower. ‘his bank account. Mr. Gregory claims he fights, His customers showed their apthe battle of the hard-hit tobacco|preciation for his good and farmer, but also champions the|courteous service by giving him|

; {36, “but I just couldii't make it.

A the robbery of this Tennessee val ley 8 have been a different story it I Simpson he {had cased the job.”

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By United Press MIDDLETON Tenr,, would-be *Wiilie Sutton”

vault and slammed the door in the bangdit’s face, ' Mr, Simpson got the door shut, but Bondurant seized customer “would W, B: -Sasser Jr, and yelled to would shoot Sasser unless the cashier tossed out the money. . Tells What Happened this account of

Feb. 22

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hamlet’'s tiny bank

“I meant to.look over the bank uesday,” said Henry Bondurant

Sasser gave

. smen. angere v A Armed tow nsmen anger 3 D what happened J i a . Success! at- . “es three preylous un By N Nt Bondurant: Get that money 1 J MW \ : tempis he ho hi v I : i out here and don't try to lock , 16 Me Ss, enn. Jun- | {down u ¢ mphi I b that vault or I'll kil! you, I read {man with a volley of pistol, rifle King -t ault ind shotgun fire vesterday as he out you locking -the vauit on sh i 5 < ol ’ | BN K ' that other guy.

Richard Diggs, of 417 N. Hig land Ave. is a veteran Times] carrier. He first started his route| 8 years ago. Now 15 years old and a, freshman at Technical High School, he covers the neighborhood of Dorman St. to Arsenal Ave. on Michigan St. York St., Vermont St. and Sturm

{flea with $10,000 in cash.

lit was more like the battle {Shiloh (fought near here in the money. n-| Civil War).

had guns.

New bered buckshot

Eyewitnesses said it looked and (He evidently referred to Mr

sounded like a gunsmoke Satur- Simpson's thwarting of a pre {day night in a cowtown of the Old vious robbery by shutting the | West. Mrs. J. O. Neely thought vault ‘door, keeping the robber

of outside and out of reach of the The holdup man fled but {was captured several days later.) Everybody Had Guns

“It was just bang, bang, bang.” won't kill us anyway?” » sald Mrs. Neely. “Rifles, shotguns, jraqden: “He doesn’t want to and pistols—=everybody.in town yi) you, I don't think. He sald

. : he just wants money, He made The civic fusillade that' pep- me. come in here with him." Bondurant’s face ‘with Bondurant: “Get that money and inflicted ‘a serious out here or I'll kill this guy (Sas-

Ave pistol wound in his side also gop)» Sports is Dick's hobby. He Wounded one of his intended vie-, Saager: ‘Throw him out the il : \ | tums, money, Mr. Simpson.” likes swimming, football, fish-{ "py 0 1 Madden, a lumber X Pe

ing and hunting. He plays bas-| ketball with the Central Methodist Church.

company executive kidnaped in {Memphis and forced to drive 65 miles to Middleton at gunpoint, Where

Simpson: “I'l throw out thé money if he's far enough back. is he W, B.?”

ordinary Canadian who would several Christmas gifts and a| Dick, who has four sisters, wag slightly wounded. Townsmen| Sasser: “He's back of the like to smoke at least a 30-cent total of $43 in Christmas tips, (uses his earnings to buy clothes. thought he was an accomplice. counter, Mr. Simpson. Throw pack of cigarets. Right now| The son of city fireman “Gus” With what money he has left Bank Cashier F. L. Simpson him #ome money.” ciggies cost 42 cents in most parts Brown, Alfred lives at 1841 E. after filling his wardrobe. he put® was shot in Rhe finger by Bon- Mr. Simpson threw out the of Canada, 44 in some provinces, Riverside Dr. r in a savings account. durant: as. he scurried .into the packets of currency.

taxes, Amerfor around 20

mainly because of icans enjoy theirs cents. With interests on both sides of the border, Mr. Gregory commutes between extensive tobacco plantations in North Carolina and western Ontario.

As an American grower, he says it makes no difference to of America’s great lakes. his business how many “smugs” Here in Bordeaux, at Monsieur Canadians smoke. But as a Ca- . ‘ew ‘ ; i nadian taxpayer, he revolts as DIcar:s dren. hash; what he calls 2 a unjust and dis- lamprey itself gets eaten. Crininatory fax. { his growers There is only one catch in this 5 Mr, gory ha a geo A operation. After eating one of)| efian--19-4DOMSATO aif hl M. Sicart’s lampreys, cooked in with protests since his last budget! 4 wine sauce With leeks and Shen 5 Jax Casali ada pieces of fried bread, washed tHes ¥en Ses 4 PPed. own with a good hottle of 1934 smugglers have reaped ‘bonanzas Haut Simard, vou can't tell with an inflow of billions of whether you have eaten the lam:

American-brand cigarets: prey-or the lampréy has eaten Mr. Gergory has led three del- You

egations to Ottawa, and the last Testimony to: this effect will, one is here now. As a final shot be furnished on request by two before Mr. Abbott writes his 1952 fellow Chicagoans, Capt.s John budget, growers argue that higher Byrnes and Robert Casey, from taxes didn't bring more revenue, yp, american Air Base at nearby | so why retain them to the injury Merignac. = of taxpayer and smoker, grOWer A pother gustatorial delight. and treasury. {which can be recommended to They want more than a return| in vhody suffering from excess’

BORDEAUX, France, Feb. 22 (CDN) — La Belle France has| found an answer tothe lamprey, | {the fierce little eel that has been threatening the fish population

“Unjust Tax"

A Tasty French Dish-

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health was enjoyed during a recent visit to the Hotel Ambassadeurs in Cahors. This is “Truffe En Croustade” —“Truffle In Pastry”’—a delicacy which no American is in danger in the United States

Act. “Truffe En Croustade’ consists of a large black truffle, the size of a golf ball, buried in fine goose-liver paste and then wrapped in layers of fine pastry, like a vol-au-vent (raised pie). This is duly baked in a good hot oven and is eaten while it is still sizzling with a rare sauce made of cream and madeira.

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to last year's status quo, a 40cent package, however.

Seeks Tax Cut

When Mr. Gregory started to pressure Ottawa’ last year he asked merely that the tax increase then imposed be rescinded by 2 cents. By late summer he and his supporters sald ‘“smugs” had become so well established the tax cut would have to allow a 353-cent pack, 7 cents off. Now he and his crowd say the only way to disperse the wicked smugglers is to cut taxes énough! to permit cigarets to retail at 30 cents.

OK’s $218 Million Building Projects.

WASHINGTON, Feb, 22 (UP) —The government authorized the construction ‘industry yesterday to begin work on $218 million worth of long-deferred community building projects. The action is the first major relaxation of ‘the tight controls placed on the construction industry by mobilization planners. A National Production Authority official said the order wags made possible by a growing supply of light structural steel. Included in the projects are 446 churches, 110 fire and. police! stations and jails, 29 YMCA]

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Simpson: “How do I+know you

“Phe robber made Sasser carry truck the momey out of the bank for flying areund him. The robber |ties him,” said Mrs. Neely, who saw crawled out, ran about 20 yards, shot Rive up,’

the whole: thing from an upstairs window the street “We knew of the -robberf$ 15 minutes before they came out of the bank,” said Town Marshal Terry Hodge. He sald another customer slipped out and spread the alarm, “We started shooting and this robber enmtied his gun, then fired seven more shots," Hodge sald “The tire was shot on the -¢ar, and he got out and ran."

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Mr. Hodge sald Bondurdnt first ran to a house and then into a highway, where commandeered a' pickup truck. “There were about 75 or 100 of us then, following on foot and shooting all the time. | “The truck driver wrecked the

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