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Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
Fun
Al HOME

There are plenty of misconcep-
tiCns about the amount of revenue
that might be raised from some Of
the tricky lew suggestions that
have been made If you 90 in fol
mathematical evenings at home
there is much indoor sport to be
derived from taking a cooked hat
and knocking some of these dizzy
tax proposals into it.
Confiscation Of all individual in
come above $4,000 a year is one
OF The most frequently heard sug-
gestions. It would raise only $500
million. Incidentally, only a cou-
pie of people have paid the very
highest tax rate since the sched-
ule was changed a few years ago.
Repeal of all income taxes, and
substitution of a general manufac-
turerS' sales tax is another pet.
Well, since all manufacturers sales
now total s35 billion a year, the
general sales tax rate would have
to be seven cents on the dollar if
the SD billions now raised from
income taxes were equaled, and
how would you like that?
Finding where taxes hit hardest
IS another nice game the Treasury
experts must play. Taxes on Gig
arets, for instance, don't necessarily
hit the same people who pay estate
taxes. And people with incomes of
$4,000 a year pay smaller percent
age of their earnings in taxes than
people who make less or people
who make more.
In the case of a sales tax at the
retail level, people Of low income
would pay relatively more thar
people of higher income unless
such things as food. rent, clothing
and drugs were exempt. Detei1n-
in;ng what exemptions to make
from any tax is tOuchy problem,
and the frequently advanced idea
Ci p general flat tax on all income
without exemption is, therefore
clear out of the question.
Simplification of the tax law is
another reform that hasn't worked.
As you may have noticed, income
tax laws become more rather than
less complicated ard the reason is
simply that an effort has been
made to distribute the tax burden
more equItably, by added exemp-
tlons and impoSitions.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
Famous Sayings

Mercy to him that shows it, is the ule-Cowper
Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22

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Imperial Valley press., 1941-04-22
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suits.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11

Gen. Hugh :. job nso n,
Americas Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
Canny Politics
Burns Blocked in MoUe
to Aid Council Race
Times stan Correspondent

LANSING, April 11.-An effort
TO block the election OF an OUT
county member as president oil
the Wayne County Board of SUI
pervisors by packing the boar d
with eight additional Detroit mem
bers failed in the Senate.
Senator James A. Burns CD OF
Detroit made the attempt, he ad.
mitted on the floor, to further my
campaign for the Detroit Council. u
lie said the move would get him
a lot of Detroit votes.
1t was Burns idea to tack ar
amendment on a harmless election
bill calling for an increase in the
number of Detroit representa-
tives on the board of supervisors
When wary out-state Legislators
discovered the real reason behind
Burns amendment, 1t was de.
feated.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
; Denns to Swap
Bank Bill Vote
70 Aid Aid Labor
Tine. star Correspondent

LANSING. April 1.-THE con-
fraversIal anti-chan banking. bill
has been killed without a vote,
saii three Democrats today in a
formal statement. charging Repub-
leans are trying TO defeat labor
legislation.
The statement signed by Sena-
tors Stanley Norwak OF Detroit
Joserb LaF'ramboise Of Gladstone
and Robert 3. Mclaughlin o.
Flint read,
Representing industrial dis
trictS. we supported the fight of
the independent bankers against
the chain banks. We consider
the people we represent have
more in common with independ-
ent enterprises than we have
monopoly businesses, such as
chain banking.
we are taking our new posi-
ton because some of the back
ers of the anti-Chain banking
bill have been very active TO
defeat all labor legislation that
il before the Senate
Senator D. Hale Brake. sponsor
Of the anti-chain banking bill
needs - votes 10 pass his measure
The three Democrats indicated
they will change their minds II
the Republicans are moro co-opera
tive IN the matter of labor bills.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
Ban on Politics
Soughtin Ruling
ByCiviIServiee
Time. stan Correspondent

LANSING. April lin disa.
greement with Attorney General
Herbert j. Rushton's ruling that
il has no power to restrict politi-
cal activities of state employees
members of the Civil Service Com
mission today prepared TO adopt
a set of rules governing those
activities.
Rushton'S ruling came as a result
of Auditor General Vernon J
Browns charges that the highway
department was a political ma
chine which cost the state 81, 000,-
900 a year in campaign expenses
"The commission can't tell a
state worker what he can or
cannot do after he completes his
regular days work." Rushton
ruled.
In spite of this, the commission
prepared to adopt permanent rule.
to keep employees from taking part
in campaigns. collecting politica
contributions, or distributing pc
titions, badges or campaign litera
ture. 1t, viewer, indicated
Browns charges will be dropped
At its meeting yesterday, The
commission slapped at the per
sonnet policies of the liquor com
mission once again, ordered The
reinstatement of Edward Steven
of East Tawas as controller.
Stevens told the commission hi
did not resign, but was called into
the commission office and Intro
duced 10 my successor, Clare
McNaughton."
Liquor Chairman John w. Miner
and Secretary Philip J. Neudecl
told the commission Stevens haC
resigned orally.
The commission also restored
John J. McGinty. former president
of the Young Democrats. to civil
service standing on the eligible reg
ister after he said his resignation
as deputy labor commissioner III
1889 was forced"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
Senate Cuts Tax
On DistiIers
Times stan Correspondent

LANSING, April IL - Despite
the objections of Senator c. Jay
Town (R) of Jackson. minister
and dry leader, the Senate passed
and sent to-the House today
bill reducing distillers' licenses
from $1,000 to $1,000 a year.
Town objected on grounds the
reduction would increase conSump-
ton Of spirits. but Senator Earl
L. Burhans tR). sponsor of the
measure. said the only difference
would result in Michigan wineries
making their own alcohol for for
tifying wines.
An amendment TO reduce the
license fee of breweries from a
minimum of $1,000 to $3.50 was
defeated. Since a straight 5 cents
a barrel tax is imposed, only Is
breweries in the state now pay
less than $1,000.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
RuIil QuiZ Set
DroIet VIII Be c allie d
to Explain Decision

LANSING, April 11.-Rep Rob-
ert y. Sawyer'S special legislative
committee to investigate Francis
J. Drolet'S connection with the
liquor commission S recent ruling
to allow SDD'S TO sell liquor IN
competition With State stores VIII
meet Monday night.
Drolet. who Is secretary OF the
Package Dealers Association. an
nounced the decision of the liquor
commission before the commission
got around to it. This made the
legislature angry and the commit
tee was named.
Sawyer said Drolet VIII be
called in and asked to bring his
books and records.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11

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and documents in large type.
Since this bill was aimed at
both the department of state and
highway department, it went
through without a dissenting vote.
Violations would be misdemeanors
punishable by $500 fine and dis
qualification from public office
for three years.
Also passed was a bill 10 create
l5-member commission TO laid
The program or corporation be-
tween the states and federal gov
eminent. II would be composed
of five senators. five members Of
the House and five appointees Of
the governor.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
Vote Bill Up
One Measure Would Ban
RooseUelt's Picture
Time. stan Correspondent

LANSING. April IA bill
which would prevent the Demo-
cratic party from using the picture
Of President Roosevelt on its ballot
vignette will be introduced in the
Legislature today by Senator d.
Hale Brake.
As the measure is worded, II
would prevent the use Of picture
bearing the likeness of any living
person" on the vignette Republic
cans use the picture of Lincoln.
Brake also will introduce bill
changing the time for election Of
highway commissioner from Spring
to the regular Fall election.
Balloting. however. would be
done on the years when a presi-
dent is not elected.
I'VE don't want any highway
commissioner swept into office
with a president and neither do !
we want one elected IN the
Spring, when nobody cares about
the polls" Brake explained.
lie said he may ask for con-
stitutional revision In 1913 effu1i-
mating the Spring election entirely.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
Anti-Strike Bill
BGtz Fails
Times stan Correspondent

LANSING, April 11.-Attempts
to rush through the Handy-Decker
anti-strike bill failed in the House
as lawmakers prepared for serious
debate on the measure Monday
night.
The bill. which makes strikes in
defense plants unlawful before a
60-day cooling-off period is OBJ
served, was scheduled for Monday
night, but its proponents at
tempted blitz yesterday.
The blitz failed after other rep
-resentatives urged action be post
poned until the Ford strikers were
back TO work.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11


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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
Campaigns Hit
By State Bill

LANSING. April II. - Fed up
with state officials who do their
campaigning at state expense. the
Senate passed and sent to the
House today bill making il I'M
lawful for public officers to have
their names printed on state signs
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
Life Saving Station
Work 10 Start Soon

Construction Of the new $780,
900 coast guard life saving station
al the head Of Belle Isle will start
within a few days. Lieut. Henry
G. Meyer. base commander. an
nounced today.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
Freedom Denied Loeb Killer

SPRINGFIELD. IN. April IL.
NNS)-The state supreme Court
today denied the appeal for free
dom Of James Day Who m 1886
killed Richard Loeb. slayer Of
Bobby Franks. in q Statewide
Prison fight.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-11
Truck Repairer Dies
In Front Of Home

Thomas ]. Wilt. 81. was found
dead under A truck he was repair
ing in front of his home, 1881
Bermuda avenue. Ferndale. today.
The death was attributed 10 heart
failure.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23
Navy, Mediotes
In Ship Strike

leaders who branded the machin-
lists walkout as a violation OF
coaStwide labor agreement.
President Philip Murray OF the
Congress of Industrial Organizations
and President william Green OF tht
American Federation of Labor join
ed today in asking congress to de-
feat legislative proposals intended
to check strikes in defense indus
/ tries.
Separate letters to congressman.
| both labor leaders urged them 10
kill the VinSon bill calling for
3O-day cooling off, period for med
iation and other curbS on labor ac-
ton.
Murray also asked defeat of the
Connally draft property amend
ment to the selective service law
and said congress had received no
proposals more dangerous TO the
basic precepts of American democ-
racy"
At Detroit, $1,000 United Auto
mobile Workers (CIO) voted, to /,
yesterday to ratify the closed shop
contract with the Ford Motor COM
pany, The agreement, completed al
Washington Friday, will cover l30,-
900 employees in all Ford plants.
The national defense mediation
board has asked the UAW-AFL to
postpone a walkout, scheduled for
tonight, at the Sealed Power Corp.
Muskegon, Mich. The union demand
ed wage increases and union shop
for l,l53 employees producing motor
parts for defense manufacturers.
At Trona, Calf, the United Mine
Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO)
continued their strike against the
American Chemical and Potash Co.
most prolonged work stoppage al
fecting defense industries. The un-
ion rejected company proposals to
end the 96-day strike by vote OF
260 to 174.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23

PORTSMOUTH. y. H, June %
CUP)-Navy officials arranged to-
day for a court of inquiry to seek
the cause of the foundering Of the
submarine O-9 and loss of her en-
tire crew of 80.
A naval Spokesman disclosed prin-
cipal witnesses would include in
spectors at the O-s's New London
Conn, base who repeatedly certified
TO her fitness recently.
Rear Admiral Richard Edwards,
Atlantic fleet submarine commander
who directed futile efforts to reach
the O-9 crew in their steel tomb %
miles at sea. revealed that first re-
ports concerning the O-9s activi-
ties at swept" testing grounds OF
here were not entirely accurate.
According TO Edwards the O-9
and her sister-Submarine O-6 and
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23

cent, the report SnOWeQ.
Average working time in all man
ufacturing industries combined rose
10 per cent to Ali hours per week
from 381 hours per man in May
of last year, reflecting an increase
in overtime work in defense in
dustries.
K.dWell said weekly earnings in
California's factories averaged $3409
in May compared with $33.18 IN
April and $29l7 in May, 1910. Wage
rate increases were reported IN
numerous industries, including brick,
chemical, mems clothing, electric
machinery, fertilizers, steel, leather,
lumber, petroleum refining, news
paper printing, meat paking, stamp
ed ware, stone, cement, structural
iron work, baking, paint, rubber,
soap, tin cans, engines, fruit and
vegetable canning explosives, pumps,
radios, alminum, liquors and wire
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23
0lher Auto Firms
SIdied for Union
Shop Campaign

DETROIT. June % up =
President f. j. Thomas Of the
United Automobile workers tCIO)
declared today that automobile
workers are not going to expect
less from the 9th. manufacturers .
than they received IN the history
making contract with the Ford Mo-
tor Co.
Speaking before the American
Newspaper Guilds eighth annual
convention. Thomas hailed the
Ford agreement as the first union
shop. checkoff. un:ol label" con-
tract in the industry.
The other automobile manufac-
turers throughout the country have
stated for years. when We went in
certain demands for the workers,
why don't you make Ford do it?'
the UAW-CIO president said,
1T is going to be hard for them
the say that any more, because Ford
is so far in front now that We are
going to have to do little conVinc-
ing to get them to catch up.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23
.LindySays Planes
ForestaII Invasion

HOLLYWOOD, June % UP)-
Charles A. Lindbergh said last
night that modern warplaneS may
make the United States immune to
invasion.
While the developments of mod
ern warfare have increased the
vulnerability of nations within a
hemisphere TO attack the other sue
have decreased the ability of one
hemisphere to attack the other sue
cessfully," he told an audience of
25,000 persons in Hollywood Bowl
His address was sponsored by the
American First committee.
The audience, which included
Sen. D. Worth Clark, D., Idaho
and novelist Kathleen Norris
cheered when a man shouted "the
next president" Signs reading
"Nazis, Fascists and Communists
please keep out!" and signed by the
America First committee, were
posted at entrances to the vast,
open-air theater.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23
Attack Seen as
Preparing Nazis
For Long War
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at war.
What prompted Hitler to strike
eastward? Why should he take the
road that led another corporal
Napoleon - to disaster? Was he
afraid of increasing United States
aid to Britain? Did he forsee long
war that could be won only by
capturing Russias raw materials
Hitler's record is that OF man
who CANDLES on reasonably sure
things. In this phase OF war, he hao
,Wo obvious choices. One was to
risk quick Knockout blow by at
tempting the invasion OF Eng gland
The other was to prepare Germany
againat the threat OF a long wal
in which Britain could count OH
mounting American aid. Hitler
could do that only by seizing the
! resources OF the Soviet Union.
It would appear today that he
4 has taken the latter choice.
| He tried desperately to knock out
/ Britain in the autumn of 1910 when
/ the luftWaffe sought TO pave the
way for invasion. The offensive fail
| ed Since then the royal air force
/ has gained strength. With American
aid it presents a growing obstacle
TO a Nazi march on London. Th-
Nazi air and submarine siege OF
the British Isles has proved in
/ creas. .ngly effective, but due TO ex-
tension of American patrols in the
Atlantic there was no guarantee
that it would strangle Britain before
winter.
Hitler had 10 think about those
things, and probably did. His re-
lations with the U. S. A. were de-
teriorating rapidly
There is no reason to believe thai
he made a reckless decision IL
choosing TO, strike now at Russia
Russia held the wheat. oil and min
erals that Germany needed if she
were to face long war against
Britain or Britain and America
The sources of British war
. strength-the United States and the
British dominionS-Wer beyond the
reach of Nazi bombers, and might
continue to pour materials into
England and the Middle East while
the Raj intensified its lombard
ment of the Ruhr and RhinelanC
war Industries.
But with all of Europe and Rus
sia to draw upon, German efficiency
might restore the balance OF re-
/ sources. might provide the sinews
that would win, or at worst create
z long deadlock out of which coulc
/ come a negotiated peace.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23
Naval Court to
Seek Secrets Of
.Sunken SUB

IO-lO crurstl to the Portsmouth
trial area and conducted a series
OF underwater tests.
At 1856 a. m. EST Friday the
90 began a lengthy submergence
criying through the water with only
her periscope showing. OFFICERS
aboard the other ships watched tas
tests but glanced away momentari-
". When they turned back the
O-9's periScope had disappeared.
Naval observers believed an eX-
plosion might have occurred in en-
CINE or battery rooms to send the
ship plunging to the mud bottom
44O feet down where water pressure
crumpled her steel hull.
II was believed the two officers
and 81 men died almost Immediately
when the o.. relic OF world wal
davs. recommiSsioned because OF TIE
present emergency. was subjected to
the 44O-foot pressure. The O-9's
hull was built to stand pressure al
only 200 feet.
At noon Sunday the % crew
was given up for dead and salvage
operations were abandoned.
Three AND half hours later l,OOU
blue clad sailors lined the rails OF
the flotilla of y rescue ships in
cluding submarines, tugs and des-
troyer that were grouped around
the spot where grapnels had hooked
the O-9
His head barred and clad in q
white summer suit on which was
black crepe armband, Secretary OF
Navy Frank Knox stood on the ali
deck of the submarine Triton to
conduct ceremonies.
The Portsmouth navy yard chap
lain. Lieut.. -Comdr. Homer G.. Glunt
read scriptures and said a brlei
prayer. No relatives of the lost crew
were present to hear the tributes
or the 21-gun salute that re-echoeo
TO the haZy obscured shores. The
skies we're darkening with thunder
head clouds as Knox cast a rose
festooned wreath on the rippled sea
and said in an emotion-choked voice
Il want the people OF the United
States to remember that these men
went TO thsir fate willingly as vol
unteers because every officer and
man in the submarine service must
be a volunteer.
With all the convictions that !
am capable of uttering, I say our
country will last only as long as
there are men left to make sacri-
fees as these men did.
Every stride OF civilization has
been paid for in sacrifices-to you
and your shipmates we say goodbye
and God bless you
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23
Funeral Rites Set
For Paul Block

NEW YORK. June % CUP) -
Funeral services were scheduled to-
morrow afternoon for Paul Block,
newspaper publisher and head OF
an advertising representative firm
who died yesterday after an illness
of several month. He was 63.
Block was president of Paul Block
and Associates and publisher of the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Toledo
Blade and the Toledo Times. At
various times he h q published
other newspapers, including tn e
New York Evening Mail the Newark
Star-Eagle, the Brooklyn Standard
Union, the Los Angeles Express,
the Detroit Journal and the Mil
waukee Sentinel
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23
BY UNITED PRESS

Naval officers expressed hope to-
day for a speedy settlement of the
weeks old machinists strike
which has hampered production OF
II San Francisco shipyards.
Rear Admiral John Wills Green
slade. 18th naval district command
ant, Sa.S he would meet with "all
parties concerned" and the navy
had every hope that a complete
return to work will be effected by
the early part of the week"
Eight hundred AFL machinists
and 500 CIO members have been on
strike at the IL yards since May
10. Other AFL craftsmen returned
to work at the request of national
Imperial Valley press., 1941-06-23
Grab Ukraine, Then
Halt, Appears to
Be kazi War Plan
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seal Russia in from Europe from
the Baltic TO the Black Sea and
render her impotent, protecting Ger
many from attack from the east
while she does her main job in the
west against England.
That is why informed London
sources are not overly-optimistic
over this dramatic change in the
war picture. They cautiously refrain
from taking it for granted that now
Hiler has taken on another front
he will be so occupied in the east
that he will be vulnerable in the
west. They have come to respect his
far-seeing ability and to realize the
extent of his vaulting ambition.