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TRUTH SEAR’EM!
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is unaouotetuy true that the Internal Revenue
have had a hard time collecting taxes on some of
the interest and dividends paid out in recent years. It
u also true that the government has lost some revenue,
as a result of this.
To get all that's due the U.S., a new withholding tax
is on tiie way. As this is written, Congress Is about to
approve it. It would force banks and companies which
pay out dividends to withhold twenty per cent of these
payments for U.S. income taxes.
Overlooked by the theorists is the fact that this for-
ces some Americans to pay taxes before they would nor-
mally have to pay them. It also forces many to go
through the process of applying to the government to
give back money which never should have been taken
from them.
In addition, the whole principle behind the new
withholding system smacks of something un-American,
rt seems to be an expression on the part of Congress to
the effect that the taxpayer will not do the right thing
by the government. And, of course, some of them won't.
But our democracy has operated for many years on
the philosophy that the taxpayer is responsible for mak-
ing out his returns or having them made out and for pay-
ing the right amount of taxes.
_ The distressing thing about all this is the lack of j
protest or lack of opposition to this proposal. The people
who usually exhibit bleeding for the various “causes"!
didn't seem to be disturbed by this little bit of financial
cunning on the part of the government at all. Even In
Congress, the opposition so far has been slight.
The B-70 Again
The House Armed Services Committee has expressed
its unanimous disagreement with Secretary of Defense
Robert McNamara? in “directing" that the B-70 super-
sonic jet bomber be constructed for the nation s defense.
This is a victory for General Curtis LeMay, Air Force
Chief <u Staff, and for all those who have argued against
complete reliance on rockets and missiles in the immedi-
ate future.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and President John
Kennedy after him, both accepted recommendations ou
their Defense Secretaries that the B-70 be built only as)
a prototype — two or three aircraft. Congress dissented
and voted funds for building B-70's. But the executive
brancn of government did not spend the money.
Now Congress is preparing for a constitutional test,
r:lying cn Article I, Section 8. of the Constitution, which
vives tiie Congress the power to raise and support the;
. _ Sometimes fins is a matter of
aimed forces. If the bill passed by the House Armed Ser- vjevvpoint Xhp olhcr ni?ht P..e.
vice; Committee passes Congress, then it will be up to
the Defense Department to defy a specific law. if the
B-70 is not built.
10 and 20 Xearg Ago
From Record Files...
, -10 Yr». Ago
Mar. 30, 10SS
Cucro Independent School Dis-
trict purchased a new 24 pas-
ifhger bus Bill Young was
transferred to Victoria, where
* was do manure a furniture
store purchased by Stowers of
San Antonio — Mrs. Minnie
Parks of Rt. 4, Cuero, was here
visiting friends and relatives —
Lucille Ball was starring in
“The Magic Carpet” at Rialto
Theatre — Plans were being
made here for a pilots club.
CROSSWORD
SO Yr*. Ago
Mar. 30. 1942
A solemn warning that high
school students found guilty of
further depredations at. Cuero
schools would be expelled imme-
diately and not readmitted was
voiced by Cuero School Board
members — The sharpshtxHing
anti-aircraft crews of Corregidor
had reduced enemy air raids on
the fortress to mere harassing
operations, while the brilliant
counter-moves by Lt. Gen. John
M. Wainwrigbt’s American-Fili-
pino forces had caused Japanese
activity on the Bataan Penin-
sula to reach a virtual stand-
still.
DOWN
1. Chickens,
turkeys,
etc.
2. Footed vase
3. Cuts edges
of coins
4. Honduras
banana
port
5. Syrian
city
0. Gun
(at.)
7. Plant
insect
0. Stringed
instrument
9. Betimes
12. Pommels
16. A dance
19 . Coal
by-
product
21. French ,
river
23. Nel-
son’s
victory
site
24. Wind-
mill
arms
27. Tennis
stroke
28. Cub's
mama
99. Borders
31. West Point
freshmen
32. Fair-
haired
BIBS dlga
srvtes
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ill IIP
Yesterday's Aaswer
33. Ghostly
34. Deeds
38. Inland
•ea
(U.S.S.R.)
39. Girl's
name
42. Inquire
44. Moisture
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Today is Friday, March 30. the
89th day of the year with 276 to
follow in 1962, - |
The moon is approaching its j
new phase. ~ —.......— - ------1
The morning star is Saturn, j
The evening star is Venus. !
On this day in history:
In 18.r>8, the first pencil equip-;
ped With an eraser was patent-J
ed in Philadelphia. j
In 1867, Secretary of State Wil-
liam Seward reached agree-1
ment with Russia on the pur-j
chase of Alaska for 57,200,000 in ington stated that men's suits
would be manufactured for the
In 1870, Texas was readmitted!duration of World War II with-
into the Union. i out trouser cuffs, pleats, and
In 1942, a directive from Wash- patch pockets.
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coin
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over doors
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26. Reigning
beauty
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pass
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36. Meadow
37. Sea mam-
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point
(abbr.)
41. Killer
whale
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girls
in June
45. Insect eggs
46. Relieves
47. Office work
table
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salads .
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t€> 1962. King Features Syndicate. Inc.)
A thought for the day : Ameri-
can novelist Wiila Cather said:
"Winter lies toa long in country
towns: hangs on until it is stale
and shabby, old and sullen.”
By MERR1MAN SMITH
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Back
stairs at the White House:
Guardians of Ihe New Fron-i
tier like to believe (hat never
before in relatively modern
American government has there
been such freedom of informa-
tion and such untrammeled ac-
cess to news.
published
Th,a Air Force, which favors the B-70 program.
sident Kennedy slipped out of
the White House to go to a pri-
! vale party. When he reached
! the building where the festivi-
ties were in progress.. hj,s Sec-
, .. „ . ret. Service protectors viewed
thinks that it is a mistake to place all-out reliance on iln dis;wp,(>>.a| the waiUng
missiles at this stage of their development. It points out presence of two pro.-- assoeia-
that bolh the B-47 and the B-52 are now old bombers j turn photographers.
1 j No pictures, decreed one of
and that the B-70. which will fly three times the speed the agents. "This is Private."
of sound, will give the United States a reliable air arm And where was this private
. , . . , ; sanctuary where lensmen of trie
to do what missiles might not. or cannot do. j Fourth Ks1a(c wen, [(Jl(,lddon
This is sound reasoning. General LeMay is. of course, to ply their trade? The public.
street - level lobby of the Nat-
ional Press Building, a strut t-
security is to be obtained. Even if the B-70 proves un-; ure largely occupied by men
needed, it should be built. But General LeMay lost his! and women to whom news gath-
.. | ering and interpretation is not
won the first j
language newspaper
in New York.
The editor. Stanley Ross, wrote
White House, asking that
Chalk be given credentials as a
Washington correspondent with
the right to attend Kennedy
press conferences and ask ques-
tions.
Chalk's editor also applied
for accreditation to the press
galleries of Congress.
The chances of Chalk receiv-
ing a coveted White House press
pass would seem to he a bit
remote since recipients must
first be cleared by the congres-
sional galleries which insist that
more than one-half of the re-
porter's earned income come
from his reporting job.
This, however, could be the
start of something big. Would-
n’t it be interesting if Jimmy
Hoffa, George Romney, Eddie
Fisher, Henry Ford II, Mort
Sahl and Toots Shor all bought
newspapers and turned up at
Kennedy's news conferences,
firing questions and dropping
little comments along the way?
Renoir Paintings Sold
PARIS (UPIi --- Four paint-
ings by Auguste Renoir brought
$564,400 at an auction here. His
"Landscape at Cagne" was sold
for $33,600.
my now york
right. There can be no gambling on missiles if maximum
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personal appeal at the White House. He
battle !n Congress, however.
and
onlva trade,
hut a way of life, j
well-
And speaking of news, thei
j United Slates Information Ag-j
j ency (USIA) currently plans to
send two reporters to Califor-
nia this week with President j
Kennedy — one for written j
news distributed by the govern-j
ment overseas, the other to doj
broadcasts'for the Voice of Am-!
erica (VOA).
Although the President has!
serious engagements at the Uni- j
versify of California and Van-!
denburg Air Force Base, it j
would tie interesting to know j
w hat USIA and VOA have to!
say to the people of the Congo I
about the President's two days
_ Two generations ago a boy was lucky to have a goatj in Palm Springs, land of the I
to-ride; nowadays lt must be the latest type automobile
The autocrat is the man who thinks that the
to-do should rule the earth and Its people.
* * *
~~ The truth, as the late Rudyard Kipling pointed out,
Is often twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.
one New Yorker
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Deon Martin
Without Lewis
—just great!
- The silliest public suggestion: an ultimatum to Sov-
iet Russia In the present state of our national defenses.
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portation Corp, of America re-
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tUkuUizSzy”
1GO THE WHOLE HOG m
TVJEW YORK—Things
it thinks about:
The best white singer in the business today,
I suspect, is lovely, buck-toothed Mimi Hines.
A few weeks also I heard her do “Follow
Me” on a TV show in magnificent style and
then a few nights ago 1 caught up with her
at the Persian Room and had my judgment
confirmed. The only trouble is, of course,
Mimi’s one of the best-known comediennes in
the business. What singers make that kind of
money? * . i ,
1 have the feeling, however, that one of
these years her genial, ever-lovin’ husband,
Phil Hines, an enormously talented man in
his own right, is going to say “This is it,
kid,” and settle down into the business and directional end. When
that time comes, Miss Hines very likely may make it bigger ;
than Peggy Lee, as a single. If this be heresy, make the most
of it. ■ i
A handful of stars have made it bigger after their double acts
broke up. Dean Martin is, naturally, the classic example; once
he got away from the pratfalls and spastic humor of Jerry
Lewis, he took off and zoomed to stardom. I think of a few
others Bobby Clark, I guess, was bigger as a single than when
he worked with Paul McCullough. George Bums didn’t become
more of a star when Gracie retired, but he s still a big attrac-
tion. Art Carney was a kind of double with Jackie Gleason on
TV and he's now better known than ever. Then, of courise,
there's Bud Abbott, who did the reverse; after Lou Costel]*
died. Bud went into a theatrical decline.
Mimi and Phil, generally, can do everything well; Mimi is the
best dog imitator in the business (go on; how many dog imtta-'
tors can you think of who are REALLY good?), Phil plays a
half-dozen instruments skillfully and writes most of the jokes,
and so on. But a few of us at the moment are wondering why
Mimi, who was a singer in Alaska when she met Phil, ever
changed her routine. She may wdnder, too—all the way down
to the bank.
• • * •
STREET SCENE—On Lexington Avenue the other night an
ensign was growing bigger and bigger in his girl's eyes as sea-
man after seaman saluted him—until a tail Texan-type tn a 10-
gallon hat nodded pleasantly to him and said, “Howdy, sailor."
You could see the balloon deflate. . . . Sign in a Third Avenue
barber shop: “Haircut—60c. With conversation—90c.”
A local restaurateur, Jim Downey, is trying to have the an-
nual Fifth Avenue St. Patrick’s Day parade rerouted to pass his
Eighth Avenue steak house—so he can serve everyone Irish
coffee. Where the marchers go from there, npbody knows. . . .
The gay, mad life: Rhonda Fleming flew into N. Y. on her sing-
ing tour—and took a six-room suite at the Delmonico. A maid,
hairdresser and butler arrived with her. j 'i ^ : -
nlCHARD ROLLISON found
* A a sheltered spot in the gar-
den in front of James Wedlake's
house.
He sat. on a garden seat,
wished that he had brought a
thicker coat—and after half an
hour, saw headlights in the sky.
Before long he heard the sound
of a car engine.
Soon, the car swung round
towards the house. The glow of
the headlights missed Rollison,
but shone on the windows. Rol-
lison stood up and went swiftly
towards the car, even while it
was crunching over the gravel
drive.
He saw only one man. He was
behind the car when the door
opened, and Wedlake stopped.
Wedlake slammed the door,
and strode towards the porch.
' He still seemed a very angry
man.
"Wedlake,” Rollison
dearly.
The.man spun round. Rollison
stepped into sight, smiling, the
porch light shining on his face.
Wedlake gaped.
right. She was tall, rather heav-
ily built and with a good figure.
The light fell on her face, and
she was quite a beauty in her
rather billowy way. She stared
at Rollison as if bewildered. “I
thought—” she said.
“He won’t be a minute,” Rol-
lison said, and stepped towards
her. As he reached her, he took
his right hand from his pocket,
holding what looked like a pis-
tol, and said softly: “Don't
move, don't scream, or you'll
get hurt.”
She screamed.
As she did so, she struck out
at him, and he only just man-
aged to dodge the blow. He
thought he heard a chair scrape
in the room. She kicked out,
and he squeezed the trigger of
the pistol. A cloud of gas caught
Mrs. Wedlake before she had
time to get beyond range, and
she began to cough and splut-
called ter.
Rollison was no longer wor-
ried about her, for he saw a
oak bureau, where papers were
spread out, and where h*
thought Holmes alias Thomp-
son had been sitting. He saw
the files from the briefcase, and
in a pile under a glass paper-
weight some handwritten air-
mail letters, almost certainly the
letters written to Kate Lowson.
Rollison watched the couple
as be rounded the desk. A pig.
skin briefcase stood open near
it, and inside were several more
papers and what looked like
small books. He took these out.
The books were passports,
one of them under the name of
Lancelot Thompson, the other
under the name of Maurice
Holmes. The photographs wer*
of the same man, although ob-
viously taken at different times.
Rollison slipped both Into his
Jacket, and glanced through the
papers. He had time to see that
they were aU to do with Mail-
ing Motors, and appeared to
deal with design of body and the
engine. Then he saw that the
shadow as of a leaping man. He j woman was beginning to ease
_______ ^ flung the door back and heard j herself up from her chair, and
“I thought vie ought to have '>l cra';h aKainst the man who ’ was breathing more softly,
a confidential talk without the j Wa& comin6'- [ Be pretended not to notice
money-makers present,” went! There was a cry of pain, and j *ler' nor to see that the man
on Rollisoni “They weren't ex-! Uie slla<k>w was suddenly a con-
actly all sweet reason, were fusl°n °f dark shapes. He
they?” I stepped past the reeling woman,'
His words and manner puz- j to SPC a man staggering back
zled Wedlake, who stood wait- j agnin.it B>e wall,
lng for him, not scowling, not j Apparently the door had
satisfied either. Rollison drew; banged against his left knee,
level with him And* without j and he tnw standing an one
making the slightest attempt | foot and looking as if he would
i to disguise what he was doing, fail at any moment. He was a
I bunched his right fist and man of medium height, dark-
| drove it into Wedlake's stom-1 haired, probably in the early
ach He heard the gush of air. j forties. Rollison reached him.
He rammed his left fist into { and drove his right fist into his
; Wedlake's neck, and then his stomach. The man reeled back-
| right against the heavy jaw.! wards and fell heavily.
! The big man fell back against; * * *
i the porch, and began to slip j J^OLLISON
was also getting stealthily to
his feet. Hts right hand wa*
moving towards his hip pocket,
too. Rollison waited until he ap-
peared to be dipping into the
pocket, then drew out the gas
pistol which looked like an auto-
matic.
A SHILLING: This expression
is probably traceable to English
money,. A shilling is sometime*
referred to as a bog. Thu* one
willing to Spend a whole shilfing
it willing *o “go flic vvliole hog,"
It
ym.
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THE YEARLY PASSENGER TOTAL of the Staten Island
ferries, of which we were being so nostalgic recently, is 26
million. . , . The National Antiques Show nt Madison Square
Garden broke all kinds of attendance records. More than $20
million worth of art treasures was on display. . , . The Embers,
which made owner Ralph Watkins enough money so he could
open Basin Street East, is 11 years old this week. In its carfy
day# lt was known as the El %>roeco Annex, being right across
tiie street from the jazzy old social mecca.
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down, while Rollisor eased
fall.
Wedlake’s eyes were glazed,
and he was quite unconscious.
Rollison dragged him round to
the side of the house, took a
length of cord from his pocket,
tied his ankles and his wrists,
and then went through his
pockets.
He transferred a wallet, some
papers and the keys from Wed-
lake’s pockets to his own, and
then straightened up.
He went to the porch.
He studied the keys on Wed-
lake’s chain, any one of which
might fit the front door. He
tried two without success—
and thought he saw a shadow
on the frosted glass of the door.
The third key slid in easily, and
when he turned it, the lock
went back. He opened the door,
* Yery slowly, and heard a woman
_? call out: “JailiCs. is that you?" lison went on: “Can you think
stepped into the
* ^ hall and Closed the door,
I cutting off the sounds from the
room. He heard none in the rest
of the house. He went swiftly
towards a lighted room, seeing
that it was an empty kitchen.
When he came back, no one else
had appeared, and he felt rea-
sonably sure that the house was
empty except for the couple
in the big room.
He went there.
The woman was leaning back,
and taking great gulps of air.
The man was trying to get up
from the floor, but seemed
dazed and dizzy. Rollison went
to him, and the man struck out
weakly.
Rollison caught his right
wrist, hauled him fo his feet,
and asked roughly: “What name
are you using tonight? Mr.
Thompson or Mr. Holmes?”
Wljen the man gasped, Rol-
Wedlake’s voice wasn’t
ficuit to imitate.
' "Yes,, won't be a minute.”
*1 thought I heard the car,”j Bennet
a woman ;fkld, and the. shadow Only
disappeared. He pushed the door
wide open and saw a woman
outlined in a doorway on the
of one reason why I shouldn't
choke the ilfe out of you? As
you choked the life out of June
Bennett?"
the man’* gasping an-
swered.
Rollison turned away, and
went to an elaborately carved
M
“Anyone want to play ‘Who
Shoots First’?'* he inquired.
The man snatched hla hand
away. The woman dropped back
into the chair, raising her hands
fearfully in front Of her.
“I thought yoq probably
wouldn't,” said Rollison.
Then he heard the sound Of
the car outside.
It was not Jolly, who would
not approach so near to tha
house in the car. It might be
one of the millionaires, or it
might bo the one man who was
missing—the man named Bell,
of whom Rollison had heard but
whom he had never seen. He
stood up, and the woman cringed
back. *
"I don’t enjoy doing this,”
Rollison said, half apologetic*
ally, “but lt can't be helped "
He tossed the little vial into
the face of the woman, then
one Into the face of the man,
and was quite sure that they
would be helpless for at least
five minutes.
The car had stopped. He went
softly to the front door a* ho
heard a door slam. He slipped
into a room on the right, and
saw a tall, very thin man get
out of a chauffeur driven car,
and recognized Sir Mortimer
Bailey, who stepped straight to.
wards the front door.
“As he rushed through Ui*
flames be saw Holmes.
Thompson lying on the floor,
face downward ...» the
story continues tomorrow.
Published by arrangement with Harold Ober Associate*; Copyright & 1960, 1962. by John Craasey
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