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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03

HIRECTOR BYRNES regula-
~ tions. designed to hold down
individual salaries to a top
figure of $4,000 in 1913 after
payment of federal income
taxes, customary charitable con-
tributions. life insurance, premi-
ums and fixed obligations" do
not improve upon the Presi-
dents original order TO accom-
plish this end.
On the contrary. the regula-
tons merely serve to emphasize
how unsound this whole scheme
is in principle and how mis-
chievous it will prove in prac-
tice.
The idea of a So, 900 ceiling
on salaries was first advanced
by the Go, later taken up by
Mrs. Roosevelt and finally by
the President. The new ruling
represents a clear example of
administrative action to circum-
vent the will of Congress.
The President in two messages
to Congress specifically asked
for legislation to accomplish
this end. The treasury placed
before both tax committees of
Congress proposals for accom-
plishing this end. Both commit
tees of Congress, after due
consideration, declined TO accept
the proposal.
IN PASSING the act Of Oct.
l. 2, 1912. Congress plainly did
not have in mind the grant Of
any such power. Yet the objec-
tive which Congress refused 10
sanction is now sought by means
of regulation issued under the
authority of the President
1t is one thing to levy drastic
taxes to meet the wartime rev.
enue needs Of the government.
But this $4,000 ceiling is of
negligible Importance as a rev.
enue measure and is not de-
signed as revenue measure.
1t is utilizing the war emergency
to put into effect an economic
doctrine not held by Congress.
The $4,000 ceiling carries
with it an element Of moral
judgment. 1t implies that no
man is entitled to more than
certain fixed amount in return
for his work. If this judgment is
accepted. why stop at S25, OOO?.
Why not $4,000. or $4,000. or
$4,000? Why not equal pay for
every one?
THERE is involved here
l. sharp change in our tradi-
tional American concepts. 1t
has been the basic philosophy of
the land of opportunity that
every man, no matter how hum
BILE his origins, had the right TO
acquire wealth if his talents and
services TO the community ena-
bled him to attain a large in
come.
Now the philosophy seems TO
be that we must level down
from the top by pushing back
all those who stick their heads
economically above an arbitrar-
lily selected level.
The proposal involves re-
versal also of previous concepts
of economic justice. 1t puts
fiat ceiling on earned incomes
but not on unearned incomes.
1t puts a fiat ceiling on income
from current work and ability
but not on inherited income.
The president of the steel COM
pany working under great
pressure to fill war orders will
\ have his salary fixed below a
fiat sum. but the man or woman
who holds a large block of stock
in the company or large in
vestment in bonds will have no
such fiat ceiling.
FINALLY. the regulations en-
II phaSize the inequities inner
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
ONE Boss Needed in Pacific;
Macarthur Is Man FOR job

American people by sangunary events in the Pacific
that the United States is persstng policy OF divided
command.i
Mr. Hanson W. Baldwin authoritative writer for the New
York Times has returned from lO0Om tour of the Pacific
area questioning the wisdom of the arbitrary division OF the
Pacific which really strategic entity into two theaters one
commanded by Admiral Chester W. Nimz commanding the
Pacific feet the other by Cen Douglas Macarthur Allied COM
mander-n-cfief in Australia
CCoRDING to Mr. Baldwin when the soomons campaign
a was decided upon:
The dividing line between Admiral Nimtz authority and
that General Macarthur square through Guadacanal
I'm centraze authority under the which was
conducting the campaign decided to move the line west
ward which put Guadalcana and the southern Soomon
under Admiral Nmtz jurisdiction
But today line still divides the SolomOns all of the
Japanese the northern soomons and the important
Japanese base Rabau in New Britain General MacAr
thurs side of the ne although first foOhOlds In the south
ern Soomons are Admiral Nimitz' side"
Thus continuation of the tragic and nearly fatal
policy of twoheaded campaign and command which made
Pearl Habo ripe attack (which stued the early phases of
the Aeutans and which have bearing on the
ominous situation in the Soomons
TT WAS the general understanding when General Macarthur
was removed Australia from the Philippines that he was
have supreme command of the Pacific not merely of the
American forces involved but of all the Allied air
and land.
This understanding may have been in error may
have been the real intention of the American and Allied high
commands such total authority in General Macarthur
Nevertheless the idea popular; because General Mac
Arthur enjoyed great public confidence and there were high
expectations that he would produce the desired resusfor the
simple that he widely regarded the leader best
qualified for the task.
NOV informed by Mr. Baldwin that:
General Macarthur has been hampered carrying out his
duties in Australia and initiating the grand offensive for the
reconqucst the Philippines project dear to his heartily
number of factors
And further that:
General Macarthur has only very limited naval force
his commando few Australian cruisers destrOyers,
vessels and miscellaneous types and few American ships
and submarines"
Obviously General Macarthur does NOT have supreme
mand in the Pacific
But also obviously Admiral Ninz does not have supreme
command
In fact it is painfully evident that there is NO single
responsible and completely authoritative commandhe whole
campaign being divided into rather feudasc between
the army and navy with the several commanders vitality de-
pendent upon cooperation but unable control and effect it.
THERE should clearly central command Of both American
and Allied forces in the whole Pacific
1t should undoubtedly be vested in General Macarthur be-
he is regarded the most competent sateg in the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03

FINALLY. the regulations en-
Il phaSize the inequiiies inner
emily involved in the scheme and
add further incqultlcs. Allow.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
TELEPHoNE-cHERRY $500

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-03
EFR0H6EFHNES

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Sunday Morning by The Times Publishing
Company at 1875 Times Square, Detroit.
Michigan.
Entered at Detroit, Mich. as Second Glass
Mail Matter.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10
German Supreme
Offensive Coming
Soon Say British

LONDON, May 9. tUP)-Neutral
observers predicted today that Adolf
Hitler would try TO start his SUI
preme offensive against the Russians
within three weeks.
Reports from the Russian front
indicated that both Russians and
Germans were steadily moving up
reinforcements to Join veterans who
fought through the winter. The Rus
slams have announced that they
have vast reserves ready to fight
and the first contingents have pass
ed their tests scoring a local sue
cess.
Meanwhile, the initiative was the
Russians and German-o occupied viii
lagos in Karelia were reported slow
ly falling before them. Radio Moscow
said fierce battle was raging in
one sector of that front and that
the Red army was advancing after
breaking enemy Resistance.
Earlier it reported that three Ger
man battalions on the Karelian
llOllb lldo CloooCd Vic llOiiplCA eiiit
simultaneously counter attacked
from three points, but the Russians
moved them down and the Ger
mans had to retreat.
Dispatches from Moscow said So
Wet forces had broken three Ger
man counter attacks on the Kalinin
front in as many days, and Radio
Moscow said that CoSsack cavalry,
continuing dashing raids in the enc
my'S rear, had captured three more
villages on the Kalinin front.
Behind the German lines, Gueril-
las were reported continuing their
deadly work. On the northern front,
guerillas were said to have routed
two German garrisons. blown up
an armored train loaded with troops,
10 bridges and airplane munition
dumps.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10

SMALL 4-ROOM house unfurnish-
ed except has electric range. $18.
12131a State. Phi. 8706-J-3. 5-6tf
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10
Ry HAM FISHER
3UR ANSW

OUR ANSWER
~ AND SO, SINCE THE A.E.E. IS STARTING
a PAPER AND REQUESTED PERMISSION
TO run JOE 9ALOOkA,WEZk Be
UckLE e. SHLI 70 NOTIFY The SOTS
7IAT ANY SOL DER M our ARMY
HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENTER
OFFICERS CANDIDATE SCHOOL n
Ne CAN CUALiFT---AND FURTHERMORE
/T<S THE GOSH DARNOEST SWEETEST
DEMOCRATIC ARMY MOVE TttATIS EVER
s sfl o, HIAR1 of ANDl s0h 1,se, DoM'L SAY
EQU/REMEVTS- Il. MUST BE A CITIZEN By
BIRTH. Z ES,SATESN OF AGE AND LESS
ThAN to YRS: MUST HAVE THREE
MONTHS OF SERVICE M THE ARMY.
y. CAARAoTER RATING OF ExCEllENT.
$ ARMY GENERAL CLASSIC c ALTON
SCORE no OR BETTER. APPLICATION IS
MADE TO COMPANY OR BATTERY COAMANDeF,
WHO ARRAN0eS FOR YOU 10 APPEAR BEFORE
OFFICERS CANDIDATE BOARD. SOLDIERS
NAY Apply FOR ANY ONE OF THE SEVERAL
OEElCERS CANDIDATE SCHOOLS. M
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10
Imperial Valley Use Them
5-HElP WANTED

YOUNG LADY With ex-
perience in bookkeeping and Of
flee records, capable of handling
sales inside store. Good starting
salary with excellent firm. Perm
anent. BIZ. Goodrich SilvertoWn
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10
Churchill Party
Candidate Wins

LONDON, May 8 CUP - H. N.
Linstead, the government candi-
date, won a smashing victory today
in a bitterly fought house of COM
mons by-election, after three re-
cent government defeats for COM
mons seats.
Epithets were hurled freely in
the campaign, in which Instead,
conservative, won by 1888 votes
against 1899 for Capt. Bernard Ac-
worth, independent
Churchill, intervening directly in
the campaign, had called Acworth
a defeatist and AcWorth retorted
with lie. Liberals and Laborites
associated with the national gov
eminent joined in vigorous cam
paigning for Linstead.
Acworth, a retired naval captain,
demanded that Churchill give up
his joint post as prime minister and
minister of defense.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10

STENOGRAPHER, Typist Wanted.
Write Ell Centric P. O. Box 1176
giving exp. etc. 5-13
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10
JOE PALOOKA

| a LETTER FROM MAYOR EARL HUNTING,
SPECIAL SERVICES OFFICER, OFFICERS
TRAINING SCESoOL,W ARMY CORPS, TO THE
WAR DEPT AND RELAYED 70 NE BY sRlo. GEN.
OSe ORN,HEAD OF S. SD, REQUESTS THAT HAVE
BECAUSE CQUOTE) "DEsp,Te EVERYTHING THAT
HAs eEsM pSMe Tns AHERASE 'JohM so a1 M;,,
TO SO AeOuT APPLYING FOR AN oEEicEe's
c ANOiDNTE SCHOOL OR HOW EASY Vt IS FOB,
QUALIFIED MEN TO SECURE APPOINTMENTS.
!SUCh a SERIES OF DAILY Straps COULD BRING
THAN ALL TAE ARMY BULLETINS AND PRESS
IREleASES ISSUED, SINCE THE AVERAGE
tSOlD,ER READS JOE PAlOOkA WHEREAS
| ne DOEs NOT AAWN1S READ EGulAT,CNs,
RUC lETiNS AND PRESS RELEASES. HAVE
TALKED TAE MATTER OVER WITH OTHER
OFFICE rs MERE AND HAVE eEEN URGED
TO PLACE THE PLAN BEFORE YOU"
! 5-U
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10
iI-HOUSES FOR RENT

REAR HOUSE, Partly furnished
hardwood floors, two bedrooms
$23. month. Key at 1040 So. 18th.
5-4tf
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10
Germans TO Draft
Dutch Laborers

LONDON, May Sup - Ger
many is expected to conscript
another 100000 Dutch laborers to
work in war factories despite failure
of their campaign to force the
Dutch into works projects, the
Aneta news agency said today.
So far about 10000 Hollanders
have been forced into German war
work, it added.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10

Use the POST-PRESS WANT
ADS for results.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10

HAVE OPENING FOR Woman
service station attendant. Good
steady job for right person. 289
East Main. SILL
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10

HOUSEHOLDER Wanted for pleas
ant country home, modern con-
Veniences, small family, nice liv-
ing quarters. Every Sunday off.
Call 87l1-J-3. TT
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10
6-HELP WANTED

WOMAN TO SHOW Houses and
work in real estate office. Must
be neat, permanent valley resi-
dent, apply Mission Apt. 235 No
9th. st. If
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10
TRANSPORTATION

WANT RIDE To Amarillo, Texas.
Can go anytime after Tues. 5th.
Share expenses. Standard Station
9th and Main. Phone 1886. SILL
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-10
33-Trucks, Trailors. Tractors

Use the POST Press WANT
ADS for results,
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Draft Chiefs Study
Asked in U. 5. Agency
Deferment Requests
List of 1905 Coses
Submitted for Survey
By Senate Committee

Selective Service headquarters was
asked today by the special Senate
Economy Committee to make a
thorough study of the cases of 1000
Government employees to determine
whether they are entitled to draft
deferment
Submission of this list by Chair
man Tydings, Democrat of Mary
land, is sequel TO the report made
public by the special committee two
weeks ago, in which it suggested
some Federal agencies have abused
the privilege of requesting defer
ments, but that the abuses have been
relatively few in contrast to the total
number of requests.
Senator Tydings said the commit
tee felt that in all cases of Govern
ment employees who are IS years old
or younger, serious consideration
should be given to whether any
necessity really exists for such de-
ferment."
"Oblique" Method Cited.
The Maryland Senator charged
that certain agencies" have avoided
going on record as requesting de-
ferments, but have supported the
applications after they were initiated
by the employees.
This is almost the equivalent of
the agency requesting the deferment
Itself, the Senator wrote to Brig
Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of
selective service, "and in most cases
where this procedure has been fol-
lowed, 1t results in occupational de-
ferment. You will note that in
one of the largest organizations hav-
ing to do with the war effort
this practice has been generally
adopted"
Names Withheld.
The committee withheld the
names of the employees and depart
ments involved in deferments, be-
cause of the possibility that in a
minute examination of all the facts
that cases which appear unwar-
ranted, prima facie, might be justi-
fled upon fuller examination.
The committee is of the opinion,
as a result of its investigation, that
very few employees 25 years of age
or younger have either the educa-
ton or the experience sufficient to
make themselves indispensable to
any major department or agency of
the Government" the letter con-
tinued.
Evening star., 1942-06-19
Recital to Aid Symphony

For the benefit of the National
Symphony Orchestra a recital will
be given at 8:45 o'clock tonight at
56l2 Connecticut avenue NV, by
the piano pupils of Nine. Tamara
Dmitrieff. violin pupils of Elena de
Sayn and voice pupils of Nine.
Ealka Ricci.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-06
SALVAGE OF WASTE MATER.
LAIs FOR DEFENSE

A campaign to enlist the help OF
1000 retail stores In Maryland In
program to salvage waste mater
ials for defense was announced by
H. Tindlay French, chairman of the
Maryland Salvage Committee Of the
Maryland Council of Defense.
He said merchants will be asked
to pledge their stores to save waste
paper, scrap metal, old rags and old
rubber and that window emblems
signifying their participation in the
Salvage for Victory Program" will
be given those storekeepers who CO.
operate.
1t is suggested that the store.
keepers appoint employees to super.
wise the regular collections and dis.
posals Of waste. 1t may be sold di.
rectly to dealer or given to some
which will sell it. Cartons, boxes and
paper bags should be fiattened and
baled. Rags, metals, rubber, etc.
should be boxed or bagged.
Mr.. French suggested that store
keepers send a card to the Bureau
of Industrial Conservation, Wal
Production Board in Washington re
questing a pledge card and stating
their willingness to cooperate.
TIRE QUOTA FOR FEBRUARY
Maryland's tire quota for Febru
airy has been set at 1852 tires ant
1900 tubes. Announcement of the
figures was made by Louis C. Burr
State Rationing Administrator. Jan
uary quotas we're AGA tires ant
34S2 tubes. A breakdown of the al
lotment Of tires and tubes to thu
counties for February gives Ceci
County II tires, IA tubes for pas
senger cars and motorcycles; Al
tires and 70 tubes for all trucks, {
total Of las for our county.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-06
YORK COUNTY FARMER WINS
TITLE OF WHEAT KING

Wilmer L. Leese, Is year old
farmer, of Hanover, York Co., Pa,
is again wheat champion of the
state.
Proving that scientific farming
pays, young Leese again won the
title of Pennsylvania wheat king and
the newly established Philip w.
Pillsbury award for the best wheat
grown in the state at the annual
State Farm Products show at Harris
burg. His winning sample of wheat
was of the Forward variety, the
same variety with which he won the
state championship in 1941.
The wheat growing methods en-
ployed by Leese are best described
by c.. Otis Cromer, professor of farm
crops at Pennsylvania state college,
who judged the grain at the farm
products show:
"Leese believes in good seed and
also good growing conditions for
the seed" Prof. Cromer said.
The crop was harvested just a
little ON the green side of "dead
ripe" and threshed after it had
stood in the shock for week or ten
days. Due to an unusually dry June
and July, the wheat was quite dark
red in color, besides very hard and
vitreous. These characteristics indi-
cate q high protein content. The
yield was about IS bushels per
acre, but would have been much
larger except for low-lying spots
which drowned and froze out during
the previous fall and winter. This
wheat weighed SO pounds per bush
ell. three pounds over the legal
weight for wheat"
In winning the new Pillsbury
award, Leese was the first Pennsyl-
vania farmer to take the trophy and
cash prize offered by Pillsbury, who
last year established the award to
further encourage improvement OF
the grain in this state.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-06
THE HELPLESS MATCH

Fire menaces the preservation OF
society's most cherished things:
property, jobs and family. When
you hold a match in your fingers
and the clear fame points toward
the ceiling in silent beauty, it is hard
to believe that with a little help
from its allies around the room
cigarettes, waste paper, curtains--it
could consume the house in which
you are sitting.
All these allies seem far from
dangerous; but every day a match
or cigarette is dropped into waste
paper, or a bed, and loss. and per-
haps death results. Every day a
stove with faulty fiue is setting fire
to a dwelling. Every day an un-
screened fire in the fireplace shoots
a spark out into some infiammable
object in the room and sets fire to
it--maybe In the daytime, maybe at
night when everyone has retired.
Every day brings new evidence OF
how that peaceful little flame on the
match works with it's allies to wreak
havoc on the whole community.
So the next time you watch the
tiny fame of match and tip it down
to give it another lease on life, re-
member that it is helpless only while
you hold it in your fingers or when
its charred remains are cold.
Respect fire for the utility it has
to offer, and respect fire also for the
power it has to destroy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-06
MOTORISTS MAY DEDUCT
GASOLINE TAX

When making out Federal income
tax returns, Maryland motorists may
deduct money paid out during 1941
as a result of the States gasoline
tax rate Of four cents. Palmer r..
Nickerson, Counsel of the Automo-
bile Club Of Maryland declared to-
day. Reporting on income tax de-
auctions allowed motorists by reas-
on Of car operation, at the request Of
Edard E. Turner, Resident Manager
Of the Bel Air Branch of the Club,
he continued:
Every penny paid to the State in
the form of registration, drivers
license fee, titling and personal
property taxes on car may be de-
Quoted by Maryland motorists. Also
they may deduct amounts paid out
in state gasoline taxes when travel
ing through most of the other states
as the Bureau of Internal Revenue
now allows full eductions for all
but ten states.
However, it is important to re-
member that amounts paid out in
Federal gasoline and other excise
taxes are strictly not deductdble.
Neither are fines for violations of
traffic laws, costs of a new car, or
loss on trade-in.
"Other deductible items include
loss sustained from damage result
ing from accident, fire or theft when
not covered by insurance or other
wise compensated, and interest on
money borrowed for purchase OF a
car Finance charges, as such, are
not deductible and whether a por-
ton of the charge can be deducted
as interest depends upon the nature
Of the contract.
when cars are used for bust
ness, continued Mr.. Nickerson,
ii"(if used partly for business, allow
ance on ratio so used) the following
items are deductible:
1. All expenses incident to main
tenance and depreciation; 2. depre-
citation; 8. salary paid chauffer; 4.
garage rent; s. gasoline cost, includ-
ing State and Federal taxes; 6. in
surance premium on policies pro-
tecting owners interest; Z. oil; g.
repairs; 8. loss on sale of car (not
in case of trade-in) mot deductible
from State; 10. damages paid for
injuries to a pedestrian where car
being used on business of owner at
time of accident
Expenses of travel between home
and business is not deductible."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-02-06
SPEED REDUCTION WILL
SAVE TIRES

Governor Herbert r. O'Conor has
directed the Maryland Traffic Safety
Commission to use every effort to
secure the cooperation of the motor
lists of the State in the patriotic task
of conserving rubber.
In issuing the order, Governor
O'Conor said: Slower driving defin-
itely reduces the wear of tires, and
all of us should reduce the speeds
at which we travel.
Continuing the Governor said :
"Such reduction in speeds will have
multiple benefits. The saving in rub
Der will be Of great help, but I feel
assured, too, that the saving of life
and limb will be tremendous and
while saving lives is necessary at all
times, during this period it Is vital
when manpower is SO necessary for
the ultimate victory of our country"
The Governor suggested that "if
each individual will accept this plan
of speed reduction, it will mean that
he will have the use of his car for a
much longer period Of time"
Other suggestions offered by the
Governor for consideration by mo-
florists are: LESS use of the car for
unnecessary trips"---"starting a lit
tie earlier to go given distance,
thereby not having to hurry
having tires retreaded before their
condition makes such renewal i'm
possible.