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The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
Tenant Applications
Approved By Authority

Work of approving applications
for tenancy in Charles T. Nesbltt
courts, white low-rent housing
project of HACOW in the southern
section of the city, is progressing
speedily, it was learned yesterday
at HACOW offices.
A total of 70 applications have
been approved and the signing Of
leases is expected to be begun
within a few days.
A total Of 210 applications have
been approved for tenants of Ne"
Brooklyn Homes, negro project 1T
the northern section of the city
HACOW announced.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
Federal Jury Indicts
George Scalise For
Income Tax Evasion

NEW YORK, Oct. 8.-R-Al-
ready facing 10 to 20 years in Sing
Sing prison for stealing funds OF
the Building Service Employees In
ternational union (AFL) while he
was its president, George Scalise
heard today-in his cell in the
Tombs-that the law had two more
strikes on him.
First, a federal grand jury in
dicted him for alleged federal in
come tax evasion between 1887 and
1889. His income, as president OF
the union in those years, the IN
dictment charged, Vas 1914, 643.31
while he only reported $4O,27O-a
discrepancy of $274, 373.35.
Second, the office of District At
torney Thomas E. Dewey moved to
arraign him tomorrow on an IN
formation charging violation OF the
state income tax law by %conceallng
S54, 900 income from his 1888 and
1899 state tax returns. J
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
Tenants May Still Seek Loans
From FSA To Purchase Farms

w. M. CHM, county supervisor
for the Farm Security administra-
ton, yesterday said there is still
time for farm tenants and laborers
in Southeastern North Carolina to
apply for loans to purchase family
type farms under the FSA tenant
purchase program.
Tenant purchase loans are made
for 40 years at three per cent in
terest and any farm tenant or
farm laborer is eligible to apply.
Loans will be approved, to the
extent of available funds, to ap.
plicants who have character, abili.
ty, and experience deemed neces.
sary for successful farm owner
ship, CHM said.
Selection is made by the county
tenant purchase advisory commit.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09

had devised the clever little
schemes, and start over. And, of
course. prohibition was to be re-
pealed so that tn government
could get out of the nasty business
OF poisoning the hootch and frisk-
ing peoples homes and a man
could rub his vest buttons against
a a again and be ; man. And
the billion dollars a year which we
would get out of the liquor taxes
and the additional taxes which the
states, counties and owns would
take from the dealers and saloons
would solve everything, and we
would all go back to work again.
I was that dumb, /
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
Star-News Program

Consolidated City-County Government
under CouncikManager Administration.
Public Port Terminals.
Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving
md Marketing Facilities.
Arena for Sports and Industrial
ShoWS.
Seaside Highway from WrightsviHe
Beach to Bald Head Island.
Extension OF City Limits.
S5-Foot Cape Fear River channel, Wid
err Turning Basin, With ship lanes into
Industrial sites along Eastern bank
south OF Wilmington.
Paved River Road to Southport, via
orion Plantation.
Development OF Pulp Wood Produc-
ton through ssustained-yield methods
throughout Southeastern North Carolina
United Industrial and Resort Pro
motional Agency. supported by one
Countrywide tar.
Shipya1ds and Drydock.
Negro Health Center for Southeastern
North Carolina, developed around the
Community Hospital.
Adequate hospital facilities for whites.
Junior High School.
Tobacco Warehouse for Export Buyers.
Development OF notire grape 0roWing
throughout Southeastern North Carolina.
Modern tuberculosis Sdndt0rtum.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09

tee which is composed of three
public spirited farmers who know
farm people and farm land, he
said.
Members of the county commit
tee are: Alex Janicki, of Castle
Hayne, Lewis A. Covil, of route
two, Wilmington. R. w. Galphin,
county farm agent, is an ex-of-
clio member and the FSA super
visor serves as executive secre-
tary.
CHM said that loans would be
made only for the purchase of
family type farms, which the coun-
ty committee approves as econo-
mically sound units, and productive
enough, when properly operated,
to provide a living for the ap-
plicant and his family. 3
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
SPEAK

NASHVILLE, Oct. s. R DIR.
Thurman Kitchin, president of Wake
Forest, and 7. G. Greer, superinten'
dent of the Baptist crphanage at
Thomasville spoke toda at the 33rd
annual session of the Roanoke Bap-
fist association. Jotn T. Coley, OF
Nash county was reelected moder
ator. The meeting will end tomor-
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
Is Cases Are Called
In Recorders Court

A docket of Is minor cases was
quickly cleared in recorders court
yesterday morning.
Marion Atkins, charged with vio-
lating the liquor law, was sentenced
TO 80 days on the county farm.
CARVE higgins, charged with lar
ceny and receiving, was fined $40
and the costs.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
GROOM WILL ADDRESS
KIWANIS MEET TODAY
Fire Chief Scheduled To Discuss
Local Observance Of Fire
Prevention Week

Fire Chief J. Ludie Groom will dis.
cuss the local observance of fire pre-
vention week in a talk before the
weekly luncheon session of the Viii
mington Kiwanis club today at the
Cape Fear hotel.
The club will also hear reports
from Aaron Goldberg and Harry
Solomon, delegates, and I. w. Solo
mon, alternate, who attended the
district convention of Kiwanis clubs
in Winston-Salem this week.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
TOP O. THE

1t is true He has many an anguish
And many q cruel thorn-crOWn
For the s0rroWful heart to bear,
For your tired head to wear,
He kno1es hoaD fen Would reach heauen at ali
II pain did not guide them there.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09

too many to mention. One dealer
offered me a selection of %. Some
of these bore such notices as mo
Royal Family" or 1.-Two Good
Terms Deserve Another or 1--WE
Don't Want Elanor Either" or
win What With Willkie."
The Volumes Low
1t was the same dealer, however.
who gave me the inside on a situa-
ton that exists here in Washington
probably more than anywhere else.
It is that the button business is
lousy. The reason, he moaned, is
the Hatch act. With something like
1875, 900 employees here who would
lose their jobs pronto if they re-
ported for work with a button on.
who's going to wear buttons?
This doesn't mean that the CAPT.
tai is devoid of displays for the
candidates. All of our $50, 900 don't
work for the government, but when
you take out 1875, 900 and their fami-
lies, you're cutting the cheering
down to a pretty low volume.
The capitals honor in this mat
ter is some what recouped by
a gentleman across the river. in
Alexandria, Va. Not satisfied with
a boutonniere, bumper sign or win
dow card, he put up a 40-foot high
way sign, reading mo Third
Term" It cost 500
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
new MARKS SET
BY RIVER TRAFFIC
Petroleum Shipments To
Fayetteville Reach An
All-Time High

Movement of petroleum products
up the Cape Fear river to Fayette-
vile has set two new all-time high
records, it was learned yesterday al
the office of the district army engi-
neer.
During September, the figures re
leased yesterday indicate, PASTA tons
of gasoline and kerosene were moved
up the river to set an all-time high
for a month of traffic on the upper
Cape Fear.
This brought the total movement
of petroleum products for the first
nine months of the calendar year to
an all-time high total of 1885, 72
tons. or more than $1,000 tons more
than were moved up the river during
the same nine : month period last
year.
Since June 80, the figures show,
there has been a constant increase
each month over the same month
last year.
The figures for the nine-month
periods of the two years compare as
follows:
January l.
June 80 ----76,416 tons 1884 tons
July ~----13,956 IONS O,1O9 tons
Aug. -~---12,322 tons 17,775 tons
4. Sept. ~----13,244 tons Pasta tons
Total ----116,o 3S tons 1856, 772 tons
Two new items have appeared in
the material shipped up the river to
Fayetteville from Wilmington: lu-
hricating' oil and fuel oil. To late
they have accounted for only a little
more than $500 tons but their pres
ence in the figures indicates a pos
sible expansion in the number of
items which in the future may move
through the loo s and dams.
Should the current rate of increase
continue through the year another
new high will be set for the entire
year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK
BY JACK STINNETT

WASHlNGTON-The battle of the buttons
is on and while we, from this observation
post, wouldn' call it a Waterloo or a Gettys-
burg, it is presenting some minor skirnnishes
that are well worth recording.
The thing started calmly enough except for
the speed. In Philadelphia, neither the old line
Republicans nor Mr.. Wendell Willkie had re-
covered from the shock before buttoneers were
hawking the lobbies and the byways with
Willkie buttons. They were nothing fancy OF
course, just simple red, white and blue cellu.
loid disks with "Willkie' on them or at most,
1--WE Want Willkie."
At Chicago the button assembly line must
have been working ahead of time, because
the vote for Roosevelt hadn't been officially
tabulated when a few thousand button-holes
blossomed with butonnieres for the President.
What I've never been able to get over is
that some button salesman must have been
double dealing. Hundreds and thousands OF
the buttons were the same, except that some
were stamped "Willkie." Others Roosevelt .
This, I'm reliably informed, has led to a
lot of confusion and an F street button dealer
tells me that it has resulted in a big de-
mand for anything and everything in the way
of a lapel ornament that is different from
this so called Official button. My button-sel-
ling friened thinks that this is not the button
makers fault at all, but Democratic chi
canery.
The Republicans having already put their
buttons out, as we used to say in college, the
Democrats saw a grand chance to nullify their
effectiveness by copying their color and gen.
eral design.
No Lack OF Variety
Whatever the cause, it is a, certainty that
the buttoneers and novelty manufacturers are
working themselves into a lather to produce
badges that you can spot at 20 PAGES without
field glasses. There are buttons with sprays
of ribbons and ivory elephants and donkeys
dangling therefrom. There are disks with the
candidates faces (some of these I've seen
around so resemble Uncle Johns distorted
mugg in the old family album that it is
difficult to decide whether the wearer Is for
or against.
There are red, white and blue bows, with
J pendant names in cutout metal. There are
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-10-09
Fair Enough
Rv WESTBROOK PEGLER

The Star wishes its readers TO
EXPRESSED in this article are
those of the author and may not
always harmonic with its posi-
tiop The Editor.
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-24

Depulicate copies of all classes of returns are again required & must be filed on or before the due date of March 15.
 The statutes require that all single individuals who had net income of $1,000 or more; all married persons who had an ag- gregate net income of $2,500 or more and all persons who had a gross income of $5,000 or more must file federal income tax re- turns regardless of income tax liability Form 1040-A designed fir individuals who had a net in come of less than $5,000 derived from salaries, wages, dividends or annuities. Form 1040 is to be used by those individuals who have an income in excess of S5,000 and from other sources Tn cluding business and professions.
 Corporations with a total in- come of less than $250,000 and a net income of not more than $25,000 are again receiving a new form adopted last year, 1120-A. Corporations with an income in excess of $250,000 are receiving the revised form 1120. Both forms provide schedules to re- port income in accordance with existing statutes. Fiduciary and partnership forms l041 and 1865, respectively, have been mailed to this class of taxpayers of re- cord.
 The collector warns again that a penalty up to twenty-five per cent is assessed for delinquency In cases where taxpayers fail to file on the due date. To avoid penalties and interest charges, all taxpayers are urged to file at the earliest possible date.
 Deputies in Tacoma and in branch offices in the following cit ies: Seattle, Spokane, Belling- ham, Walla Walla, Everett, Wen atchee, Aberdeen and Yakima, and Juneau and Fairbanks in Al aska, are available to assist tax payers in the preparation of re- turns.
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-24
Statistics On Wash. and Alaska
 Collection Dist.

Total collections, Collection District of Washington and Alas ka, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1888:
 All classes of tax-$33, ,051 ,843.- 51 which includes income taxes of $15, 158, ,723.15 and Social Se- cuhity TaNes of $7,471, ,828.15. The balance includes miscellan- eous taxes such as Liquor, Mar cotic, Gift and Estate taxes.
 The total number of taxpay- CTS who filed returns during 193s in the Collection District of Washington and Alaska is 132,- 900. This included 22,l75 report ing incomes in excess of $5,000 only Is percent of which how
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-24

yer paid income taxes. Persons filing returns reporting less than $5,000 were 37033 of which only 28 percent paid income taxes. Of the total of 13,000 corporations in the state, all of whom filed re- turns, only 3,150 or two percent made sufficient income to pay in come taxes.
 The State Superintendent of Schols reports there are 11,886 persons employed as teachers in the schools of the State of Wash ington. Available information dis cl-seS 5,561 persons employed in the State of Washington depart ments and institutions. It is es- timated that approximately 10,- 900 persons are employed by counties, cities and other polit- ical subdivisions thereof.
 Quotations from Hearings be- fore Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, 76th Congress from statement by John w Hanes, Under Secretary of the Treasury in re Public
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-24
Salary Act:

Another purpose is to end, once and for all indefenSible tax exemptions which produce in- equity and result in public dis approval"
 Federal employees pay only Federal income taxes; State and local employees pay only State taxes; IT States impose no in- come taxes on wages or salaries. "
 "The general level of govern mental salaries is comparatively low. In 1887, of 2,6OO,0O0 State and local employees pC1og5 b. 40 percent received S1,000 or less and approximately 2,300,000 or 90 percent received $2,500 or less Thus, 90 percent of State and To cal employees, if married, would not be subject to the Federal in come tax"
 The probable effect of the el animation of tax exemption on the revenues of State govern ments cannot be readily estimat- ed"
The Nome nugget., 1940-01-24
Income Tax
 Returns Must Be Filed By March l5

TACOMA, Jan. (SpeciaD = Income tax forms have been mail ed today to 132,000 taxpayers of the federal internal revenue col lection district of Washington & Alaska, to report incomes earned during the year of 1889. The number of returns distributed is the largest quantity ever mail ed by the Tacoma district office since the war-profit tax days of 1919 and 1924, when tax rates and exemptions were more strin gent. An increase of 2,000 tax payers was recorded over the number who had filed in 1888, according to Thor w. Hendrick- sen, Acting Collector.
 The recent congressional enact ment of the Public Salary Tax Act this year will subject the sal aries of a public school teacher 'S.......ssaaalic officials of state, countyl~-hnd l-cal municipalities to the federal income tax law. The collectors office estimates approximately 30,O0O persons in this state. of which 12,000 are ed ucators, received compensation for personal services from pub lie sources and may be liable for returns for the first time on March Is, the filing date. Based on national estimates, however, 1t is expected that less than 10000 of these officials receive in o5me sufficient to require pre- paration of returns, probably not more than 5000 will have to pay taxes. Through the cooperation of state and county administra- ton officers, salaries are being reported to the bureau in accord ance with statutory requirements and report forms are being dis tributed t5 this new class of tax payers. Deputy collectors are con ducting schools of instruction throughout the state for the ed ucation of these new taxpayers,
 Federal government employees have always been subject t3 the federal income law, but now, un der the reciprocal provisions of the new Public Salary law, these federal workers are also subject to state income tax laws in stat es where such laws are oper- ative.
 The Internal Revenue Code, now in effect, maintains the nor maj tax rate of four percent for individuals and the schedule for surtaxes also is changed. The on Iy new provision in the law now effective, relates to an allowance for a carry-over of losses incur red in the prior year, which are limited to the net income of the year involved. Full explanation of this benefit to taxpayers is given on the instruction sheet which accompanies all returns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-22
WATERTOWN- HAS
 SHOWN INCREASE

Continued from Page i) rection. Enumerators were kept busy for weeks listing residents of all cities and towns. Tn addition cen- suses of farms and housing were also taken.
 Official Listing
 The first official listing of Water towns population was in l790, when the number of inhabitants was given as 3,l70, a large gain from the estimated population of 2,732 in l7s2. The towns population dropped sharply in the last decade of the 18th century, and the 1900 census gave 1t population of only 1922. A hundred years later, in 1900, cen- sus returns gave Watertown a pop ulation of 3,l00. Steady gains were then made, census figures being as follows: i9l0-3.850; ls20-.6,O50; 1930-8,192.
 A considerable portion of Water towns population works in Water bury, and many of the towns res- idents are former Waterbury res- identS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-22
Judge Moscowitz Has
 Issued Sentences
(Continued From Page D

not assess the maximum penalty of two years and $l0000 against Me- dloon, Moscowitz said Coster- Musica could not have perpetrated his vast imitation scheme without Mc0loon's assistance.
 Musica Brothers Sentences
 Musicals brothers, all of whom were indicted under their aliases and all of whom pleaded guilty to l4 counts in the indictment before the start of the trial, were sentenced as follows:
 George Dietrich, who testified for the government, 9 l-2 years with a five year probationary term to start after service of the sentence. The maximum penalty would have been 58 years Imprisonment, but the judge followed the recommenda- tions of the prosecutor, Assistant United States Attorney Irving R, Kaufman.
 George Vernard, three years with a five year probationary term.
 Robert Dietrich, one year and six months with 6 three-year proba- tionary term.
 Brothers-I -In-Law
 Coster's brothers in-laW .- broth CTS of his widow, Mrs. Carol Coster - who changed pelas of not guilty to guilty during the trial, were given the following sentences:
 John o. Jenkins, alias John J. Jenkins, one year and one day with 8 five year probationary term.
 Leonard Jenkins, one year and one day with five year probation ary term, the sentence suspended because the government found that The had not profited by the Musica depredations.
 Benjamin Simon, who knew Cos ter as Musica and was familiar with his big-scale bootlegging activities prior to his rise in McKesson and Robbins, was sentenced to three years in prison with five year proba tionary term. He argued in his own behalf for a lighter sentence on the grounds that, by giving in- formation and pleading guilty before the trial, he had aided the govern ment. The prosecution pointed out however, that Simon had been sem fenced to three months imprison- ment in 1929 for violation of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-22
Allied Forces Strike
 At German Blitzkrieg
,continued From Page D

ononcaons at Arras is designed to tighten the steel ring around the Allied northern army At the same time the German air force blasted at the French channel ports o hinder and dsorganize any effort to the Allied army by sea- this dangerous situation the Allies were fighting back hard Their recapture of Arras may indicate any attempt to blast pathway through the Gernan Saet back to the main Allied positions south of the River Some
 Trapped Forces Fight Back
 At the same time other units of the trapped Allied forces smashed at VaencienneS the northern hinge Of the original German break through on the Western Front Here again the objective to blast corridor through the German salient cutting the German lines of and enabling the isolated French corps to reon their main body which is here south of the ASne near Rethe Alter comforting with Weygand Premier Paul Reynaud expressed confidence in the outcome "If we hold for month he asserted i've shall have travelled hree-tourth ot the road to victory"
 Germans Lose 500,00O Men
 Huge losses were being suffered on each side French sources estimated that the Germans lost 500000 killed and wounded since invading Holland. London source placed German casualties the Western Front at 2500O0 plus 900 in Poland and 900 to 000 in Scandinavia The Germans claimed to have captured 10000 to l20O00 prisoners but did not estimate Allied casualties.
 Royal Air Forces In Action
 The Royal Air Force was heavily engaged in the Allied effort to eXtrcate themselves from their dangerous posi- tion RAF planes last night bombed most of the line of German communications from Aachen west of the fighting lines Bridges across the Mouse blasted and heavy attacks made Namur and Dnant German claimed the Allies had lost 2000 planes in Il days fighting and predicted that the wars outcome would be determined in the space of weeks.
 Canadian Troops Arrive
 With Britain and her Allies fighting with their backs to the wall in France contingent of Canadian troops arrived in England today "Were here England'S AFEl" They shouted they marched ashore The contingent was led ashore by Sergeant George Shaw of London Ontario French Canadians with the contingent sang "Oh Canada in their native tongue Todays arrival sisted mainly repacemens and additions to the first division the balance of which is here for training.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-22

today that Allied deneralissimo Maxine Weygand had begun an important counter.m imperiling German advanced mechanized units in France with Q flank attack.
 Belief that the French armies had turned on the invader coincid. ed with Q French war office com munique saying that Arras, impor- tant French town 25 miles north of the Somme battle line, had been recaptured by Weygaad's forces.
 An authoritative source, comment. ing on the recapture of Arras, said that While it would be wrong to take too optimistic . view of thiS preliminary success, experts consider that 1t may well prove the first step towards checking the German thrust to the (English channel coast"
 The German thrust towards the coast was of major concern here. British planes, including speedy fighters, patrolod the coast on the lookout for German bombers. They had been active all night after Ger man kombs had crashed on south eastern England in tacit warning that at any time German aerial blitzkrieg might strike the isles,