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Your Income Tax Return
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How Much 10 Deduct for =, Bad Debts Is Given
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Bad debts constitute a consider able item in the returns of many taxpayers and may be treated in one of two ways-either by deduction from gross income in respect to debts ascertained to be worthless either in whole or in part and charged off, or by a deduction of 8 reasonable addition to a reserve for bad debts. g
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granted for the purpose of handling one specific debt.
 What constitutes a reasonable addition" to a reserve for bad debts must be determined in the light of the facts, and will vary as between classes of business and with condi- tions of business prosperity It will depend primarily upon the total amount of debts outstanding as of the close of the taxable year. those arising currently as well as those arising in prior taxable years, and the total amount of the existing reserve.
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INTERNAL REVENUE OFFICE OPEN FOR
 INCOME TAX WORK

Deputy Collector of Internal Rev en1a Wesley c. Overby retuyf1ed to Juneau on the steamer Taku last Saturday from Petersburg after official business there, as well as at Ketchikan and Wrangell.x
 The Internal Revenue office will now be open daily until March 15, the income tax deadline
 Deputy Collector O. s. Sullivan, now in Fairbanks, is expected to return here next Sunday.
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Seventy-five Attend
 Rainbow Lun(heon


 Approximately 65 Rainbow Girls and guests attended Saturdays covered dish luncheon and business meeting at the Scottish Rtie Tenn pie
 Attractive decorations depicting the winter sports theme were formed on the tables. Guest of honor for the occasion was Miss Merle Schraeder. Past Grand Inn mortality for the State of South Dakota.
 Plans were made to attend church in a body on April T. Miss Eliza heth Tucker and Miss Bernice Mead were selected as a committee to
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HALL, MARTIN POST
 BOND, WIN RELEASE

Bail bond of $2500 each was posted in District Court here Saturday for Oscar l. Hall and Barney Martin charged with selling liquor without a license. and the two employees of the Siems-Drake-Puget Sound contracting syndicate were released from jail at Sitka.
 Defendants in the case have until March 20 to appear for arraignment and preliminary hearing.
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LEAVE JUNEAU 10
 TAKE MARYLAND JOB

Miss Jeanette Ringstad, who has been with the offices of the AL aska Steamship Company here, sailed south on the steamer AL aska this morning.
 Miss Ringstad will go to Balti- more, Maryland, to assume a So- cial Security position.
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Boys Party for
 John Blackwell

John Michael Blackwell sen of MT. and Mrs. Vance Blackwell, celebrated his third birthday yes- terday with a party at the fam fly apartment in the Assembly.
 His guests were Sandy Blanton, Bill Baker. Michael Grummett, Don Able and John Holmquist.
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have charge of arrangements. A special meeting was also called for the evening of March 12, when officers will exemplify initiatory work before the Eastern Star or der.
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debts ascertained to be worthless and charged against the reserve dur ing the taxable year
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zeaos of the out Republican British authorities set up emergency
 
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FOUND -Pair of glasses, gold trimmed, along Douglas Highway. Inquire at Empire.
 FOUND at Capitol Will the. Lady that acst fountain pen recently in theater. please call at office for Same. Viii ftf s.2as
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ONE Broom apt. and one 4-room apt. at Evergreen.
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5-ROOM steam heated apt; also Groom apt. Phone Blue 200.
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Evening star., 1940-09-02
Every Photoplay Studio
Is a Borrower or Lender
But 1t Makes No Difference to Fans
Whether Stars Work on Their
Home Lots or Elsewhere
BY HAROLD HEFFERNAN.
HOLLYWOOD:

When Shakespeare Neither a
didn't have the shufhing place Hollywood
In recent months this and
profits
found
At this writing Warner Bros to be the heaviest borrowers
Evening star., 1940-09-02

OF SIS secretaries and typists polled
in downtown ohice building only
IS knew David o. Selznick pro-
duced Gone With the Wind" The
balance credited it to every other
studio in town.
Twelve answered correctly that
Mickey Rooney was under contract
to M-G-M, while only three realized
that Charlie Chaplin's The Great
Dictator" would have a United Ar
lists release.
And that in Los Angeles. cradle
of the industry and the place where
people eat, sleep and dream theil
movies!
II you want to delve into human
interest, give a passing thought to
the o. Henry situation revolving
day by day around the plight of
young Gene Eckman, Atlanta school,
boy, signed two months ago by M
GIN to play Jody in THE Year
ling"
Although Gene is drawing a week
ly salary and is the leading candi-
date for the priced role, there's a
trick clause in the deal whereby
Gene forfeits- the job If his face
and figure show material changes
by the time action starts-presuma
bly, next February. It's up to Gene
to "stay put" or his chance at a
Hollywood career goes glimmering
Think of young Mr. Eckman leap
ing out of bed each morning and
over to the mirror for quick once
over. Or rushing up to his older
brother and inquiring, How do I
look today?" Or trying to remain
casual while Father and Mother
Eckman give him sly up-and-d down
at the dinner table each evening.
Released BY the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Ine.)
Evening star., 1940-09-02
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Palace-"Boom Town." excite
ment in the oil fields, with Gable,
Tracy, Colbert and Lamar: 11:05
am. las, 4:20, 7 and $40 pm.
Capitol-"Young People" the lat
est Shirley Temple adventure: II
am, las, 4:30, tbs and 10 pm
Stage shows: 12:45, 3:35, $40 and
9:05 pm.
Earie-"The Sea Hawk" Bucca-
neer Enrol Flynn rides the waves
10:15 am, l, 3:55, AS and $40 p m
Stage shows: 1925. 3:15, 6:05 and
pm.
Keith's-"Lucky Partners" Ginger
Rogers and Ronald Colman win a
sweepstakes prize: 11:35 am, 1:35
3:35, 5:35, 7:35 and 9:35 pm.
Metrop0litan-"Flowing Gold" ad-
venture in the oil fields: 11:20 am.
1:25, $3.50, 5:35, 7:35 and $40 m
Columbia-"The Great McGinty.
gay and bright political satire: Il ::35
am, lao, $40, $40, 7::45 and 9:4s
pm.
Little-"It's Love I'm After" with
Bette Davis and Olivia de Havilland
ll:30 am, 1:35, $40, $40. 7:45 and
$50 pm.
Trans-Lux News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
In the Country.
Cross ss-Roads-"Smilin' Through
revival of the well-known senti-
mental play: $40 pm.
Roadside-"East Lynne" the pop
ular melodrama group in rare and
notable tear-jerker: $40 pm.
Evening star., 1940-09-02

others in. the cast are Norman Rose
Larry Lawrence, Florence Konold
Lois Alexander, Kenneth Banghart,
Edna Evans, Jack Salamanca, Ed
ward Prescott, jr.;: Margaret Oster-
wald, De Teel Tiller and Ralf Nicol-
son.
Elizabeth Winburn, the Cross
Roads Theater's discovery of the
season, seen earlier in "A Woman's
a Fool" and Noel Coward's Fallen
Angels" Is to be starred in the
groups production of "Smilin
Through" 1t is not her first ex-
perience with the Allan Langdon
Martin fantasy; she played Cathleen
and Moonyeen with q little theater
group in Maine several seasons ago.
Others in the cast of "Smihn'
Through" will be Peggy Johnston
Robert Langley. william Draper
Austin Gettis and Julian Hatcher
Howard wentworth, as usual, is the
director.
*4+ 4.
Tryouts this week:
Tomorrow and Wednesday nights
for the acting group Of the WASH
ington Theater, formerly the WASH
ington Civic Theater, at the re-
hearsal hall, 918 Fourteenth street.
Wednesday evening at the Be-
thesda- Chevy Chase Recreation
Center for the Montgomery Players
initial production of the season
distinguished Gathering"
4 i ~
Tryouts last Tuesday and Wednes-
day brought the st. Pauls Players
the best turnout they have ever had
of .aspirants for roles in You Can't
Take It With YOU" The group
opens its 1904 season with this
play, now tentatively scheduled for
presentation October 80, 81 and Mo-
vember l.
Players cast include Cello Harley
Mary Dorsey, Ken Tuttle, Ralph
Carrello, Virginia Mccormick, G.
Eugene Nichols, jr.; Roccoford Nc
Cam, Dorothy Stilwell, Hubert A.
O'Boyle, Bernadette Norris, Austin
Carlin, Eleanor Boylan, James l.
Whims, Irwin Alleman, Gwen Tise
Carroll Clay, John M. Connell, jr.;
Jack Bennett and Cy Sturgis.
Edward Mangum, for the last
three and a half years director for
the Mount Vernon Players and re-
Gently appointed to the same post
for the next two years, will direct
you Can't Take It With You"
It's his first assignment for the St
Paul's Players. H. M.
Evening star., 1940-09-02


East's vaudeville stages. But he
still is another of those talented per-
sons whose cinema status is not
what it undoubtedly will be when
and II he gets the right" picture.
He is a personable lad and his face
is hardly one to frfghten a movie
camera. What's more he can (well
he could If his tonsils held out) sing
for hours on end without firing his
listeners.
After Hollywood discovered that
time that it had made so many mus
iCalS In a bunch that the very word
frightened the customers. however,
there was little demand for singers
to star in musicals that Hollywood
had decided not to make. There was
not too much cinematic demand
even for an Irish tenor with the
breath of old Erin in his lyric top
notes. But Phil thinks now he has
the story which will change that,
the story which will turn out to be
the right" picture for Regan.
Long an admirer Of Chauncey o.
colt, Mr.. Regan has obtained from
his wife, Rita Olcott, the rights to
Song In His Heart" her story of
the late great singers life Phil
spurred on by a yearning to sing the
Olcott Mother Machree," wild
Irish Rose" when Irish Eyes Are
Smiling" from the screen as we'll as
the stage, is busy with the details
now. Already he is conferring with
sundry people in the matter Of
producer and has arranged for
United Artists release of the film.
Meanwhile he stays in the mood
by keeping a cherished memento,
Chauncey Olcott's shaving mug, ever
at hand in his dressing room.
Il X \
Far be it from us to cast an asper-
sion, or even to wonder if this is the
radio actors own opinion of radio
actors. All we can do Is repeat
for your private cogitation, the latest
story about Enrico Carussa Schip-
agigli, whose activities have been
reported before in these columns
when he left New York to 90 to
Hollywood and become an actor in
THE Sea Hawk" After the film
was completed, Enrico. who is
ring-tailed monkey. if you have for
gotten, was invited to appear on
radio broadcast and chatter sweet
nothings into Miss Brenda Mar
Evening star., 1940-09-02


Isabel all the suffering she endured
while East Lynne" was so popular
from 1862 to the beginning of the
Goth century. But she chose to
believe a villains words that her
husband was unfaithful and sacri-
feed husband. children. home, to
the flames of her jealousy, before
she repented.
We hope you weep as copiouSly
as did theatergoers of the last CEN
tury when Lady Isabel walls: How
much longer can I bear this torture
of mind, this never-dying anguish of
soul? o lady, wife, mother! What
ever trials may be the lot Of your
married life, though they may mag
nifty themselves to your crushed
spirit as beyond the nature, the en-
durance of woman to bear, yet re-
solve to bear them. Fall down on
your knees and pray for patience;
pray for strength to resist that de-
mon who would tempt you to accept
them. Bear them unto death rather
than forget your good name and
your good conscience"
1t is Betty Gray who must unload
herself of all this and more, too, in
the Roadside's East Lynne" and
Evening star., 1940-09-02

OI ldlc1lI dIlU duIlOSU cQudlly ucdpy
lenders James Stewart and Rosa
lind Russell, both of whom have
been away from M-G-M so long
they'll have to be introduced to the
help all over again, have just fin
ished mo Time for Comedy" at the
Burbank plant. Wayne Morris IS at
Paramount for a series and even
though his contract lies safely in
the w. B. vault, he won't be back
on the home lot for nearly year.
George Raft is another destined
to travel across town soon for
picture with Norma Shearer at
M-G-M. Pat O'Brien, already In
a film at Columbia, is going to
Twentieth Century-Fox for an
other. Olivia De Havilland has re-
Gently returned after years abb
sence at David Selznick's Gone
With the Wind" headquarters.
Rosemary Lane checked in just
the other day from two-picture
session at Universal. Dennis Nor
gan has been loaned to R-K-O as
Ginger Rogers leading man in
kitty Foyle"-his best chance to
date. And Gary Cooper is ON the
Warner lot (by courtesy of Samuel
Goldwyn) for Meet John Doe"
the new Capra film.
With the celluloid economic sit
uation the way it is remember
there's no more world market, the
barter and exchange system will
grow brisker each day. It's a profit
able arrangement for all concerned.
1t takes up the slack on idle per-
sonalities. The lending studio makes
a neat profit on each deal. The
players get handsomely tipped and
a change of scenery. The borrowing
studio wins the services of actors
better suited to certain pictures
than those available on its own lot.
As for the public, 1t doesn't make
a bit of difference. The average
fan doesn't know which player or
picture belongs on what studio
roster in the first place-and cares
less.
To satisfy his belief on that latter
point F. E. Berend, Los Angeles ad-
vertising executive, wagered one
major studio executive inordinately
proud Of his company's trademark,
that the average stenographer
(agreed on as tantamount to the
average movie FAM had practically
no knowledge of studio and player
Affiliations.
Berend won his bet hands down.
Evening star., 1940-09-02

shall's ear. Then Miss Georgia
chapter Of the American Federation
OF Radio Artists, appeared on the
scene.
''If that monkey" she said,
wants to appear on any radio pro-
gram, Warner Bros. or N. B. c. will
have to take out a union card for
him. Actors make noises. The
monkeys chattering constitutes q
noise. So, ipso facto, Enrico is a
radio actor and he carries an A. F..
R. A. card--or elSe."
So Enrico joined the union. We
don't know who paid his dues.
Any Of you who have always
wanted to lead a band and nave
always been prevented therefrom
in the towns cabarets by more sober
minded companions, can have one
inhibition less after Sammy Hayes
next Washington engagement. which
starts at the Earle Friday. It's the
first local glimpse of the new Cor
fairly new) stunt Sammy has con-
trived, appropriately called 80 You
Want to Lead a Band" Two femi-
nine, two male would-be band lead
ers are recruited from the audience
at each performance to vie for
honors as the best In making the
Kaye lads Swing and Sway"
The trick is that the baton can't
merely be waved in time to the
music; the musicians actually follow
the directions of the amateur con-
ductor.
Evening star., 1940-09-02
Put Him on Skids

James Cagney read in the script
Of Warmers "City for Conquest
that he was supposed to knock out q
dance hall bouncer who was an.
noying him. Then he looked up
and saw the man he had to kayo-
218-pound Pat Flaherty, former
professional baseball and football
player.
May I ask q question:" inquired
Jim. How am I going to knock
out a man as big as that? Hadn't
we better put some lard on the soles
Of his shoes?"
Evening star., 1940-09-02
Isabel Jewell Cast
In High Sierra

Isabel Jewell has been signed by
Warner Bros. to portray q renegade
policeman's girl friend In High
Sierra" w. r. Burnett novel, star
ring Humphrey Bogart.
Cornell Wilde, leading man from
the New York stage who was placed
under term contract by Warmers
following his appearance in the play,
Romeo and Juliet" with. Laurence
Olivier and Vivien Leigh, also has
been given his first assignment, in
that picture. He will appear as the
hotel clerk in league with the
gangsters who plot to stick up the
place.
Evening star., 1940-09-02
Pot O. Gold Stars
James Stewart

James Roosevelt has signed James
Stewart to play the stellar role in
his forthcoming production, POT O.
Gold" Stewart was borrowed from
Metro Goldwyn-Mayer, to whom he
is under contract.
The production of "Pot O. Gold" is
now in preparation and is scheduled
to face the cameras october /. Hor-
ace Heidi and his orchestra are in
HOLLYWOOD appearing before the
sound cameras for pre-recordings.
The screen play is by Harry Tugend.
Evening star., 1940-09-02
It's Off Again

Robert Taylor, who grew his first
mustache for waterloo Bridge" and
liked it so well he retained it in
everyday life and in Escape" has
to shave it, much to his disappoint-
ment. AS Pensacola cadet in
Flight Command" he can't wear II
and still keep within naval regula-
tions.
Evening star., 1940-09-02
In Deanna's Film

Peggy Moran. who has been under
contract to Universal since her dis
covery by producer Joe Pasternak
during filming of First Love-" in
which she played minor part, will
have featured role in the current
Deanna Durbin picture, Spring
Parade"
Evening star., 1940-09-02
Takes to the Air

Ronald Reagan's performance as
George Gipp, Notre Dame football
immortal, in "Knute Rockne-All
American" is continuing to pay him
handsome dividends at Warner
Bros studio. Currently portraying
the youthful George Custer in
Santa Fe Trail" Reagan has been
assigned to a leading part. in Fifty
Thousand Fliers," forthcoming pic
ture dealing with Uncle Sans cam
paign to train young pilots. Dennis
Morgan also will have Q leading
part in this picture.
Evening star., 1940-09-02
Local Drama GROUPS
Roadside and Crossroads
Start Last Fortnight

Lo it September and tonight our two adjacent barn the
fortnight this Roadside
its popular meodrama tradition that famed
years Smln
Evening star., 1940-09-02
Phil Regan Is Even Happier
With Suitable Film Role
He Plans Chauncey Olcott Story;
Radio Actors Make Noises,
So Enrico's an Actor
BY HARRY MACARTHUR

I'm The temporary absence OF jay CdrmodVJ
Phil Regan generally
Tor life
is not holiday Monday
than people who like Phil But will
OF his followers that the latest Regan enthusiasm the keeping him
happier between