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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-07
Gives Valuable
information on
Income I OK

The federal income tax is, as the
name implies, a tax levied upon
incomes, and il is payable in re-
lation TO the amount of income. In
come, for Federal income tax pur-
poses, means in general any COM
pensation for ones services. wheth-
er the compensation be in money or
in goods or other services; it in
cludes also the net value received
for the product of ones labor, as
farm produce in the case of farm
er; income from investments; profit
from business operations; and 9th
er gains from sales and exchanges
of goods and property. Certain linn
tied categories of income are. how
ever, tax exempt, and to the extent
of such exemptions are excluded in
computing the tax.
Because of exemptions from the
tax given to persons having less
than certain stated amounts of in
come, as we'll as because of various
deductions and credits allowable,
only small proportion of the num-
Der of persons receiving income
have until recently been subject
to the tax. Thus, of the estimated SIS
million persons in this country who
receive income in one form or an
other during the calendar year 1941,
only some 26 million persons were
required to file Federal income tax
returns fog that year, while of these
same rs million, more than 8 mil
lion were not taxable due to cred
its and deductions allowable.
As a result of the lowering of
exemptions, many more persons are
now subject to the Federal income
tax than before, and for the celen-
dar year 1912 it is estimated that
more than IS million persons will
file Federal income tax returns. To
the large number of persons now
subject to the Federal income tax,
who have never reported income be-
fore for Federal tax purposes, an
understanding of the law and APP
plicable regulations is of prime i'm
portance.
An income tax return is declar-
alton on the part Of the taxpayer
of his total taxable income for the
year, together with the various de-
auctions, exemptions, ana credits to
which he is entitled 1t is in re-
lance upon voluntary disclosure,
and the integrity of taxpayers gen
orally, that the cost of administra-
ton of the income tax can be kept
at a minimum. Though the return
is a voluntary statement, any per-
son who Willfully makes return
which he does not believe to be true
and correct in every material mat
ter is subject to the penalties pro-
vided by law.
The first requirement of the law
is the filing of an appropriate re-
turn. For individuals generally,
this must be done by March Is fol-
lowing the end of the calendar year.
The return must be filed with the
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-07

Margaret turned off the humming
vacuum cleaner, and Strengthened
the slipcovers of the armchair and
the daybed that she had pushed up
to 60 over the rug. Then she stood
quite still in the doorway and looked
at the small bedroom with its south
ern exposure 1t was as neat and
impersonal as pin. It might never
have been lived in The door stood
open on the clean, bare closet. There
was not pennant, not team pic
ture, not even SO much as an old
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-07
ST. LUKE'S CHURCH
(Episcopal)
Friday, Jan. 8, choir practice.

Friday, Jan. 8, choir practice.
Saturday, Jan. 9-6:15 p. m. An
nual All-Congregation meeting. It
is hoped that every commitment
will be present. Supper will be
served. Reports from the Vestry
committee and all organizations
will be given. The annual election
of the Vestry committee Will take
place.
Sunday, Jan. 10, First Sunday at
ter Epiphany-l0 a. m. Church
school. II a. m. Morning worship
and sermon.
Wednesday, Jan. 10 ,Women's
Guild.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-07
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend our sincere
thanks for the many cards of SYM
pathy, kind words, and the beau
tiful flowers and for all the kind
ness offered during the sickness and
death of our father and brother.
MRS. GEO. CASUAL.
MRS. PERCY PLUID.
MRS. EDYTHE ANDERSON.
T. E. PRICE. ea4l-
MRS. ED. THOMAS.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-07
NOTICE

Anyone having deer meat in the
Joughin Building is requested to
take the same out, cut it up and
put in locker where it can be prop
erly cared for
STATE FISH HATCHERY.
LIBBY CREAMERY.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-07

American forests have furnished
most of the material used in the
homes Of the people, which now
represent q value of about $780,
600 000. 600.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-07

ATllilnlellc DOCK
left to show whose
room it had once
been.
Margaret stared
at the walls, the
furniture, and
deeply, slowly, she
realized that no
matter what lodg-
ers with their own
.trinkets and pic
Evening star., 1943-05-02

it fell into the hands of Harold
1ckes during the war period. This
Is the same man, whom we prev
iously regarded as our arch-enemy. 4"
But saucy names never bothered
Mr.. Ickes. In fact, in his auto
biography published recently, he re-
fers to himself as "curmudgeon, -"
which means IAN avaricious, grasp
ing fellow, miser, niggard, churl."
No slouch himself at turning a
phrase, Mr.. Ickes coined a few siz-
zlers of his own when speaking of
things that rubbed his fur.
An outspoken interventionist be-
fore the United States entered the
war, he assailed "appeasers, "spe-
cialists in disunity" and "marionette
Fuehrers," and warned that I'VE
must be prepared to face the pos
sibility that in order to defeat Kit
Ter, we may ourselves have to en-
gage him."
He has locked horns with SINE
members Of Congress, but he leaped
to the defense of Congress as a
whole when he said legislators were
being accused of "corruptness, self
ishness and ineptitude"
The right to call Congress
Names" he snapped, sis as sacred
to Americans as the privilege of
telling jokes about mothers law
but In time of National crisis,
this right may be so exercised as
to threaten Congress as an institu-
tion.'
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Aid for Ickes Pledged
BY Ohio Association

CLEVELAND, May / (P).-The
Ohio Coal Association which claims
its members produce SO per cent of
the coal mined in the State, prom
ised today to cooperate with Sec
retary of the Interior Ickes in carry
ing out the presidential order for
Government operation of the fields.
r. L. Ireland, president of the
Association and of the Hanna Coal
Co.. issued the following statement:
Members of the Ohio Coal Asso-
citation that I have contacted are
in unanimous accord that, while we
deplore the necessity of Government
taking over the idle coal mines, our
present objective is to restore normal
production at the earliest possible
moment, and to that end we are
advising the Secretary of the In
terror, Mr.. Ickes, of our co-opera-
ton"
Edward Miller, secretary-tre
said the association represents Is of
the largest coal operators in Ohio
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Alexandria Court Clerk
Submits April Report

Earl c. Fletcher, clerk and bailiff
of the Alexandria civil and police
court. has submitted the following
report for April to Judge James r.
Duncan:
The sum of s4,196.75 was COL
lected in fines, trial fees, warrant
and bail fees, filing and indexing;
$6l5 in State fines and clerks fees
paid to Elliott F. Hoffman, clerk
Of the Corporation Court; fees paid
to Roger Sullivan. city treasurer
and sheriffs of other counties for
service fees collected amounted to
$15075; fees collected for the JUS
tice of the peace for issuing Grim
inal warrants amounted to $36. The
office collected and disbursed S73S
in the juvenile and domestic rela-
tions court.
During April, $7,28s.42 the Office
handled and has $5,3O6.25 on de-
post,
Evening star., 1943-05-02
BY the Associated Press.


LIBRARY, Pa, May 1.-"No mat
ter what the Government said, we
have to follow Mr.. Lewis. He is
our leader and we don't go to work
until he says So"
1t was Steven Mutzko, president
of Local 73 of the United Mine
Workers, talking. He interrupted a
spring cleaning assignment ordered
by Mrs. Mutzko in their tiny wooden
house in this mining community,
virtually built on the side of a hill,
to explain to reporter today how
the town felt about the Federal
Government taking over the mines.
The colliery OF the Pittsburgh Coal
Co.-Montour No. 10-14 miles from
Pittsburgh. employs 900 members of
the local Mr.. Mutzko heads, and
they were idle-obeying the orders
of John L. Lewis not to trespass on
mine property.
Its damn shame that we have
to be confronted with the threat of
armed troops-but we have no con-
tract-so what assurance do we have
OF our wages?" Mr.. Mutzko queried.
I'VE are doing all in our power
to help win the war-by producing
coal and contributing to war chari-
ties" said the union leader who
proudly told of his 23-year-old son,
a sergeant in the Army Air Forces
in Puerto Rico. He added:
This is not question of patriot
ism. will do anything to help my
country, and particularly my son
and any other mothers son, but
we've got to be able to make enough
money to exist on it.
We'll not 60 back to work until
Evening star., 1943-05-02
200 Soft Coal Mines
In IIIinios to Be Seized

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, May (P).-
About 200 soft-coal mines in Illinois
will be taken over by the Govern
ment under President Roosevelt's
order to the Secretaries of Interior
and War today.
These are the mines in which ap-
proximately $4,000 members of the
United Mine Workers laid down
their tools last night and early to-
day.
Another 1875 Illinois mines worked
by the Progressive Mine Workers
were still producing coal under a
policy adopted yesterday to keep
men on the job. The PMWA, an
AFL affiliate, has an Illinois men,
bership of about $4,000.
Evening star., 1943-05-02
ADMINISTRATIONS
Miners Ordered Back

FORT SMITH, Ark, May (P.-
United Mine Workers members in
the Arkansas Oklahoma coal fields
have been instructed by their dis
trict leaders to return to the pits
Monday morning, spokesmen for
the union and operators announced
tonight. The UNIV claims a men,
bership of approximately 5000 IN
the area.
Pete Stewart, commissioner for
the Arkansas-Oklaho Coal Op-
orators Association, said David
Fowler, president of UMW's District
81, had instructed his district board
members to order a return to work.
j. Dewey Kimberling, Spiro,
Okla, district board member, noti-
fed Mr.. Stewart that Mr.. Fowler
had instructed him and all other
district members to call the local
unions today with instructions for
the miners to report Monday. Mr..
Fowler is in New York, where he
has been attending UNIV con-
ferences
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Total Of Seven Plants
Seized by U.S.,
With Troops Use
1st Action Under National
Emergency Act Was North
American Plane Case
3y the Associated Press.

oS t1ie ASSoCldtcQ EIcos.
Acting under presidential orders
to end labor disputes menacing the
armament program, the Army and
Navy have taken over seven pri-
vately owned industrial plants since
President Roosevelt's national emer-
gency proclamation of May, l941.
In two cases troops were used to
seize the plants.
Army.
June 9, 1941-North American
plane plant at Inglewood, Calf.
Troops use to effect seizure. Re-
turned July l, 1941.
October 81, 194l-Bendix IN. j.
plant of Air Associates, Inc. Re-
turned December 20. 1941.
August 10, 1925. A. Woods
Machine Co., South Boston, Mass.
Seven truckloads of armed troops
took possession of the plant. Turned
over to new management October
II, 1912.
Navy.
August %, 1941-Federal Ship
building & Drydock Co., Kearny,
N. j., with large naval construction
orders. Returned January 6, 1912.
April 10, l942-Long Island City
plants of the Brewster Aerontutical
Co., producing various types of
planes. Returned May 20, 1912
August IA, 1942-Strike- bound Ba-
yonne IN. j. plant of the General
Gable Corp. Returned August 20,
1912.
October 13, 1942-Elkton (Md.)
plants of Triumph Explosives, Inc,
returned February 27, l943.
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Ickes Takes TroubIe-Shootinq
Coal Strike Task in Stride
Secretary Becomes
Biggest Operator
In World History
BY the Associated Press.


Harold L. Ickes, the self-styled
curmudgeon, yesterday became the
head Of the biggest coal mining en-
terprise In history, and he took it
in stride.
He started Immediately to talk
about "all of us in the coal mining
business" Dispatching kilograms to
$3.50 coal operators, he instructed
them to fly the American flag on
their properties, send him back
pledge of their support and get the
mines in operation tomorrow.
Mr.. Ickes' new assignment fell
naturally within the scope of his
duties as fuels administrator, but
there probably was more than coin
cidence of Office that led to putting
him in charge of the strike torn
mine fields.
Virtually ever since he became
Secretary of the Interior, Mr.. Ickes
has held trouble shooting job, and
he has been party to or a central
figure Of some of the most contro-
versial issues of the New Deal years.
Never one to duck a good fight
and holding the reputation of being
a rough-and-tumble political bat
tier, Mr.. Ickes has been called such
things as the "bad boy" of the New
Deal, "tyrant," ''czar" and "dicta-
tor'-but in some instances, one
time critics have wound up by hurl-
ing bouquets instead Of brickbats
at him.
A case in point was the meta
morphosis OF Mr.. 1ckes in the eyes
of the oil industry operators.
When, in the early days of the
New Deal, the Secretary acted as
MIRA oil code administrator, the oil
industry accused him of inaugural
ing RECOMMENDATION" in the guise of
conservation, while he accused the
Oil men of "squandering" natural
resources.
He was even called "a visionary"
when he warned in April, 1941, that
gas and oil rationing Was in store
for the East.
But, in the light of developments
after the attack on Pearl Harbor,
the oil men agreed that Mr.. Ickes-
by that time co-ordinator of pc
troleum-had had something on the
ball all along. and one said:
The oil industry is mighty lucky
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Events in Coal Dispute
Doy-by-Doy Developments Thot Led
To Order to Seize Mines
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Here are the events which led up
to President Roosevelt's order to
Secretary Ickes to take over the coal
mines:
March 23-President Roosevelt
proposes continued production of
coal while United Mine Workers
negotiate with northern and south
ern mine operating groups.
March 30-John r. Steelman, di-
rector of United States Cancellation
Service enters negotiations. South
ern operators follow northern group
in agreeing to extend parley for 80
days.
March 31-Mine contract expires
at midnight.
April 3-Thomas Kennedy, secre-
tary-treasurer of UNIV, resigns from
War Labor Board.
April 10-United Mine Workers
repeat demand for $2-a-day wage
increase, hold that miners receive
substandard pay Operators stand
on Presidents hold the line" Or
der.
April 22-Secretary of Labor Per-
Evening star., 1943-05-02
One Mine in Alabama
Continues to Operate
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala, May l.
Only one of Alabamas 81 rail-con-
nected coal mines, a shaft employ
ing approximately 300 non-union
workers, operated today as the
United Mine Workers Cancelled their
temporary agreement with operators
of the State.
Expiration of the agreement last
midnight actually was of little i'm
mediate significance because the
large majority of the mines ordi-
narily do not operate over the
week end. Thus a showdown in
this district was postponed until
Monday morning.
Meanwhile, I. w. Rouzer, presi-
dent Of the Alabama Mining Insti-
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Is u. ). Servicemen
Punished by laps for
Posing as Civilians
Said to Have Discarded
Uniforms After Fall
Of Philippines
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Twenty-Five United States Army
and Navy officers and men and
seven British sailors have been
given appropriate punishment" be-
cause they were said to have posed
as ordinary civilians in the Philip
pines, the Japanese Domei Agency
said last night in Toxic broadcast
recorded by the Federal Communi-
cations Commission.
The nature of the punishment"
was not stated by Domei, which
quoted the Toxic newspaper as
saying the men had been trans
ferred to war prisoners camp
from the Santo Tomas internment
camp in the Philippines after max
ing confessions.
Mainichi, according to Domei, said
the Americans and Britons secretly
discarded their military garb when
their troops were defeated" last year
because they gave full credence to
misleading Anglo-American propa-
ganda that the Japanese killed all
war prisoners"
Domei did not attemt to recon-
cile this explanation with the fact
that japanese execution of some
of the United States flyers who
raided Toxic was disclosed only re-
Gently by President Roosevelt.
The seven Britons were described
as survivors of 7,00O-ton British
ship, Tantalus, which Domei said
was bombed and sunk while an
chored in Manila Bay.
These men also discarded their
uniforms and pretended they were
ordinary seamen," Domei said, and
added that all 80 men now were
under detention at the war prison.
ers' camp.
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Return Of MoryIond's
200 Miners Doubtful

CUMBERLAND, Md, May (P.-
There was little indication tonight
that Maryland's 1900 coal miners
will return to work Monday without
orders from John L. Lewis, mine
union president.
Charles Paugh, Westernport, pres
ident of Local 6465, United Mine
Workers. and a miner for 80 years,
said the operators were at fault and
"the miners can't make ends meet"
He declared he wanted to work but
Evening star., 1943-05-02

kins announces coal wage dispute
has been certified to the War Labor
Board.
April 24-President John L. Lewis
and other UNIV representatives abb
sent as War Labor Board begins
hearings.
April 26-War Labor Board calls
on UNIV to end walkouts in coal
fields.
April 27-UMW asks for renewal
Of negotiations with operators.
April 28-Labor Board refers en-
tire bituminous coal dispute to
President Roosevelt.
April 29-President Roosevelt de-
mands that coal strikes be ended
by 10 am. May l..
April 30-United Mine Workers
again charge War Labor Board has
prejudged case of American coal
miners; ask for collective bargain
ing. More coal workers go on strike.
May president Roosevelt orders
immediate seizure and operation of
mines which are strike-bound OF
threatened with strike.
Evening star., 1943-05-02

miners were idle and all but one
of the county's Al mines shut down.
The one mine open is at Benham
and is under contract with the
Progressive Mine Workers Union.
All of the closed mines had UNIV
contracts.
In Northeast Kentucky, 10000
UNIV miners were idle and all of
the 36 mines in the field closed.
All 80 mines in the Hazard Perry
field were shut down, with 5000 min
ers out.
In the smaller West Kentucky
field five big mines and several
smaller ones were closed, with about
5000 OF the $4,000 miners in the
area idle,
Evening star., 1943-05-02

that whatever Mr.. Lewis and the
policy committee decide was all right
with him. He has two sons in SER
vice, one in Africa.
Another Westernport miner said
there is nothing to gain by winning
the strike and losing the war"
An official of Local 3877, Frost
burg, said the miners should not
strike at this time but declared
President Roosevelt has been unfair
and left the men with no choice.
He has a son in service.
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Lewis Advice Followed
BY Virginia Miners

NORTON, Va, May l (P).-Vir-
ginia's estimated $4,000 United Mine
Workers followed the advice today
OF their union president, John l..
Lewis, mot to trespass on their
places of work as President Roose-
velt's 10 o'clock deadline for full
scale resumption of coal mining
passed by.
Mines in the Old Dominion were
closed down virtually 100 per cent
except in the non-union areas of
Russell and Dickinson Counties,
where approximately $500 non
union workers reported as usual.
In the areas where operations
were at standstill, everything was
quiet.
Evening star., 1943-05-02
British Lose Destroyer,
Formerly U.S. 5. Branch
Nv thu Accncinfad pracS

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 1.-The Admiralty
today announced that the British
destroyer Beverly, formerly the U.
S. S. Branch, had been lost. No
details were given except that kin
OF casualties were being informed.
The Beverley, a 24-year-old vet
eran of long. tough assignments in
the North Atlantic and on the Rus
sian convoy route to Murmansk. was
one of the sc destroyers traded to
Britain by the United States in
1910. She was built in 1919 and
displaced 1,190 tons.
Last year on the Murmansk run
the Beverley fought through an en-
gagement with two newer German
destroyers and crippled one of them.
The Beverley also had a U-boat
to her credit. 1t was destroyed after
a long chase in the North Atlantic.
Evening star., 1943-05-02
Operator Will Report
Any Restraints on Work

CHARLESTON, w. Va, May /
P).-Maj. William P. Tams, promi-
nent Raleigh County coal operator,
declared tonight his mines would be
ready for operation Monday and that
If any men who reported for work
we're forcibly restrained Il most Ger
tainly will report the matter to
Secretary Ickes."
Lewis has made a bad mistake in
challenging the authority of the
United States in time of war;" de-
clared the president of the Gulf
Evening star., 1943-05-02
N, 900 Of Kentueky's
sc, 900 Workers Idle

HARLAN, KY. May / (P.-Ap-
proximately 10000 of Kentucky's
10000 soft coal miners were idle
today, closing more than 100 mines
In the State, but there were no
reports OF picketing or violence.
Ihe number of miners off the
JOB IN Kentucky doubled overnight
as the wage contract between the
United Mine Workers Union and
the operators expired.
In the rich Harlan field 10000