The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1942 Page: 2 of 8
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Washington,. D. C.
NEW TAX BATTLE
Biggest fight on Capitol Hill when
ft comes-to writing new taxes is go-
ing to be over the sales tajf. Wall
Street forqes already have laid pipe
Oh Japs
After two weeks of censorship the
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Pacific Beet command .allowed news
.jnen to disclose the ahiount of dam-
age inflicted by the U. S. navy in
, their spectacular attack on the Jap-
" "tuiese Marshal} and Gilbert Islands.
These reports indicated that with
the loss-of only,. JU U. S|. aircraft,
ffliu a minor bomb hit
er, and with a small loss of life units
of the American fleet accomplished
- the following:
Destroyed four military air bases.
Destroyed two military villages.
Destroyed four radio stations.
Sank at least 16 Jap ships, includ-
ing a modern ciguiseE,-two subma-
rines and a i7,ooo-ton Hner. ~
Damaged at* le«.st eighr other Jap
ships.
In addition to an undetermined
number destroyed on the ground,
the Japs lost 38 aircraft, including
fighters and bombers. """
Described as almost' perfect tim-.
ing and executed With speefl and
' daring the raid was the first big an-
swer to the often asked..question,
'"Where is the fleet?" - "
CONSUMERS:
Face Living Costs
It was apparent that the -price to weed the
control bill, which had prevented in-
"fla'tion of certain farm prices, was
might bring a big rise in the cost of
some,itgjB6 .%,i
The senate agriculture committee
had unanimously Approved a bill
■.lif,
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CLAUDE R. • WICKARD
Making use of surpluses . . .
sought. ..to prevent Secretary
of Agriculture Wickard from using
"■■surpluses^ to keep certain prices
.down. 1
Passage of this bill had been pre-
dicted, and it, would prevent Wick-
_ ard from Jtakirig actipn__with sur-
pluses unless the price of wheat, cot-
ton and corn had reached 10 per
cent above parity.
been tlW"President's plan
to hold these prices down to encour-
age livestock production. The bill
sought to prevent this action.
OCDLANPIS:
* Result af Protest
The resignation ol LaGuardia as
head of OCD and tne succession to
the "high command pf civilian de-
fense of James M. Landi,s,;, one-
time dean of Harvard law school and
former head of the Securities and
■ Exchange commission, had closely
followed' nation-wide criticism of
'"boondoggling" in.the organization.
-Focal point of the ■ objections to
the OCD management, had been
rather centered on the division head-
ed by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt _than
oil LaGuardia's civilian defense,ac-
- ttvitles, but the resignation of the
"Little Flower" had long been ex-,
pitted. V
- LaGuardia Was supposed to" have
1 plenty to do organizing the defense
| of New Yprk city, let alone saddling
himself with the problems o#?airen
tire nation.
— He announced ~that he would de-
vote bis full time to these problems
in the future. ; , J.
. Criticism, as L&ndis took charge
ot QCT),"continued chiefly leveled at
tbe health, entertainment and social
plift activities -of the organization.
It bad crystallized into the adoption
" . the house of an amendment spe-
forbidding the spending .of
' funds for "fan-dancing,
«aow>; thsstricti pffflraancor:
public entertainment in the
of civilian defense/'
I The amendment had been-tacked lines tp certain congressmen for a
onto a bill passed wjjjch provided sales tax instead of heavier cor-
$100,290,000 for the purchase of gas- poratlori taxes, and it is going to^be I
masks,-auxiliary fire-fighting eqiii]> V knock-down-drag-out battle. i
ment and other protective -goods to ' The man in the thick of this fight
be ' used in'the protection, of the Is now relatively obscure, but the
population against air raids. j public will hear a lot about him
The senate had been expected to hprtly^_iJe is Randolph P,aul bet- [
go along tilth the .house in its effVt j :er known, to' Ford, Standard GHr<
and big firms wlrt?"Kite"the naliun's
Dest tax experts, than to the rest of
the country. Paul has written, a
number of books oS fed*ral ineome
taxes apd gave up a $250,000 law
[ practice to work for virtually noth-
ing for the government
-Despite his background, however,
big business Will get no comfort
from-Randolph Jgpul when it comes
to the sal£s tax.V He is opposed -to
jlv because it -in-
duces inflation. ' *
"If you add four' cents "oJFth elates
when you want*
that next job
These girl workers at thfe'/quaftermaster's department in Philadelphia Are only three of hundreds em-
ploy...! in flags guidons, standards and battle streamers for the B. S; army. At left, the girl.marks
out the snots on the blue field where the stars go. Right: Sewing the red and white stripes together, and
JAMES M.- LANDIS
Succeeding Little Flower ... .
fx ills and fut'bfeluws""
j pricejoi any commodity," Paul ar-;
gues, "and a few more pennies on
I the price of a whole row of other
commodities, labor has an excilse
i to ask for "an increase in wages.
Prices. have gone up, and labor
! claims it is^ervfitled to the increase.
1 Then once the increase is granted,
industry has an excuse for-increas-
ing prices, and the whole thing- is
j started all over again. R'can'bS the
I most vicious circle in our economic
life."
(center) .the final step in. tKe 'ntanufacture
the blue field. ^
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Closeups of National League 'Bigshots
out of "the program. . _:
Senator Byrd, Virginia, keynoted
Anti-Sales Tax.
Instead of a sales tax, Paul fa
of very stiff taxes all 1
OCD send -his committee a list of along the line. Most drastic of his
all OCD employees getting over proposals is to tax lowest bracket
$3,000 a year, and outlining their -incomes.
specific -duties. ~ j -Psai points out that if ^ou take 72
per cent from the big business ex-
j Ecutive making $50,000 a.ygar he
| merely increases salaries t<T his as-
sociates, spends more money on in-
stitutional advertising, and de-
creases his net income. This in the
end also' leads to' inflation. P'auJ
is in favor of taxing the higbjjf
very heavily, but'-warns-*.
LUZON: '
163 Planes
Continued efforts by the Japanese
to land on Bataan had been turned
back by General MacArthUr's high-
ly-mobjle artillerxXorces in the gen-
eral's .."las'f "ditch" fight to keep the .. - ,
American flag flying over the Phil- 7^*^ , ..... ,
, j i that ,the $1,200,000,000 additional at-
^he^'anti-aircraft fire at MacArJ tainable from^this source is peanuts
tHuPs men had continued good, th? . comPare,d ^th what the country has
bag of seven planes in' one day jt0 ralae to meet ^ wa.r'^
comparing -favorably with other 1* real spending power of-the
fronts where the^^United Nations £ad' nation is in the lower bracket in-
many more serviceable aircraft
than did the defenders of LuzOn.
Captured prisoners and other
methods of gaining information re-
vealed that five Japanese divisions
had been identified "as-..taking part
in the battfe, whidh would bririg the
estimated strength of the Japs ac-
tually on the front battle-line at close
to lOOvOOO-men.
Other divisions were on the island,
keeping communications open, and
it had been reported that reinforce-
ments for the' JlfJs "were constantly
arriving, thus steadily increasing
the pressure on the American-Fili-
pino army.
NORMANDIE:
SS&OOOtOOQ Job
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Whether carelessness, sabotage or
Fate was responsible, the 83,000-ton
Normandie, former luxury liner and
now the naval auxiliary Lafayette,
lay on her endrmous beam-ends , in
40 feet of water and 12 feet of mud
"at her dock in New York-, an $80,-'
000,000 salvage job for the U. S.
navy. .
* Twenty-two hundred morfwere at
work inside of her, changing her
over from peacetime to- wartime
uses when a welder's torch started
a fire.. Within jpriinutes it was out of
control. r
SINGAPORE:
Water-Pincers
A new tactijj. in warfare, the
"water-pincers" movement, utilized
by the Japanese in Malaya, haid
)>rought Singapore to her knees,
spreading gloom in - Britain, and
making the defense of the East In-
dies a nearly superhuman job.
General Yamashita, commander
of, the Jap-forced in Malaya, had
won the Order of the Golden gite
and the Order of the Rising Sun for
his success in driving the defenders
out of Malaya, for smashing into
)dhe island of Singapore, first time in
history that the historic port had
been tested in battle.
Tbe Ipiig, narrow peninsula of
Malaya, difflcult terrain, had appar-.
ently presented enormous inva-
sion problems. The Japs had-solved
these by using small boats, many
of them coritinandeered or captured,
and sending small, welWnted and
highly mobile detachments, first
flqwn Uw eyt tuast; then duwn die
west, making landings by night, and
infiltrating behind the defenders.
Each time the firitish were able
to make a swift withdrawal, and to
•alvagigJbeir rpain forces, but each
lims B&y . Ibst grRind, un'Ul they"
were finally driven back across the
Johore causeway onto the Singapore
idaqdL
scores of "bitei" had
out of each coastline by
Japanese technique during their
e southward. At, the same
the Japs had seflt another large
to drive Westward from the top
i peoiiisuia in in effort to eut
tbe Buiroa road, but,' more im-
portant. to protect their own rw.
copies and Paul contends these will
have to bear the big part of th< war
budget
Other Paul proposals are:"
(1) Heavy corporation taxes*,
(2) stiff excess profits tail's; (3)
plugging ail loopholes ia the tax
laws(4) an exefse tax on cer-
tain specific luxuries which
would not increase the cost of
living.
His- tfcconinitndations are sure U
be adopted in toto by Sccretaiy
Morgenthau and the White House
Whether congress will adopt there
will be decided only after one of th«
toughest tax battles in history^-
especially over„the sales tax.
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— SOW TO SEE-HENDERSON
Leon Henderson is guarded by sd
many secretaries and functionaries
that even members of congress
have a hard time getting to him.
Officials of* Alcisjta, bothered by a
serious price problem in the Terri-
tory, tried for days to get an audi-
ence with the price czar.
Finally, a little gray-haired lady
found the answer.
Mrs. Johri McCormack, wife ol
Alaska's -selective-service head, at-
tended a Roman's club funciion
Washington, at which -Henderson
submitted to questionings **•** ^r<r
Mrs. McCormack put the Alaskan
price problem to -Henderson on the
floor of the club meeting, and he
promptly invited her to call at his
office next day for a detailed ex-
planation. -
"The people around the offiae,"
Said Henderson, "will try to keep
you out, but pay no attention to
them. You just march straight into
my office." _ "• —
Mrs. McCormack followed in-
structions. She saw Hender'sonr and
came away with a promise of action
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CAPITAL CHAFF \
H Attorney General Francis Biddle
is personally reviewing the recom-
mendations of all Alien Enemy
Hearing boards, which pass on
charges against ralien residents in
the U. S.
C The Bluefleld, W. Va., (^amber
of Commerce has taken.'^n unusu-
al step for a chamber of comiherce.
Advocating the curtailment of non-
essential federal spending, - the
chamber-listed a number of pet 4a
-in picture*at left, chief umpire Bill Klem (center) referees a discussion—between Jimmy Wilson (left),
manager, Chicago Cubs, and Eddie Brahnick, secretary Niw York Giants, at National league meeting in New
"York. Right: Connie Mack (lifting cup) Owner-manager of Philadelphia Athletics, and Ed Barrow, president
of the champion "New York Yankees, talk shop.* Inset fXarry MacPhail, president of Brooklyn Dodgers, gets
an important letter.
Women at War on Home Front
Women in defense will not'let war Interfere with their chic, Judginjg
Ay a preview of styles for workers at Chicago's famous Merchandise
Mart, Displaying some of the. costumes are (left tS'™right): Marge
Park, welding;'Phyllis Cramer, drafting; Madelon Shannon, civilian de-
fense; June Benoitr mechanic; Helen Webster, phone operator; Gay Hoff-
man, gardener; Dorothy Williams, carpenter; Lorrain Curtin, timekeeper.
Army Issues Gas Masks in Hawaii
cal projects it was willing to foregC
for the duration of'the war.'
<L L. Earle Davidson, hustling young
publisher of the Greenville (Mich.)
Daily Ne^s, has won praise from,
ureasury^omciau xor Wi highly suc-
cessful work in boostbg defense
bond^ sales. C^aiiman of the De-
fense Savings committee of his area,
Davidson addresses rallies every
dax.jtibd Is chalking up a remark-
abl* record. At one meeting de-
fense bond subscriptions totaled
mooa*
C. Returning from Rio by Pan Amer-
icas clipper,- Undersecretary of
Mite SUffuiir Welles relaxed in hl«
first bridge game in seven years.
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This picture sho^s civilians In Honolulu receiving. Instructions on
the use of the gas mask by a V. 8. army corporal, at a first aid station at
the palatial Royal Hawaiian hotel on Walklki beach. All civilians in
Hawaii will have to carry masks at all times from new on, whether they
like it er not. Just in case Nippon pulls another fast one.
iter-*-
'Not a Tornado
The plume'in the sky over the mu-
nicipal airport at Kansas City is
not a "twister," but the frozen trail
left by a high-flying army pursuit
ship. The photo was taken 30 min-
utes after the plane passed over the
airport. Ground reading was 1 above,
Junior 'V' Army
Joseph N. Clemens, Instructor at
a boys' club In Chicago,, registers
new members for the junior victory
army. He's telling the youngsters
how to do their part.
You will getfifsTcEass na(. |
•nd you will " get "U
promised, for having woftl
dOtfrrwhen promised is oqsJ
of tbei rules of this offi*]
If you prefer^ send the order]
by'mail or bring it to the of.
fice in per?on._
Show
What We Can Dj
Walt Disney has scheduled
£an" as the feature-length pr
tion to follow "Bambi." Disney i
mators are also creating new
acters for a series of films based i
Disney's recent trip to South
ica. But Donald Duck goes rightc
. Mr-
Way back in late November !
Maris began doing something <
rist
an. Angel", was keeping her buiyi
the M-G-M studio, but she put I
!t\r u.trip In Ynrt|
the holidays..
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Curry, W. M. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 20, 1942, newspaper, February 20, 1942; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth243260/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Crosby County Public Library.