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Evening star., 1943-06-30

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Evening star., 1943-06-30
Uncle Rows Corner

In the mountains Of California
there grow shrubs with very hard,
woody stems. Early settlers called
these shrubs "hard tack"
Today the same shrubs often 60
by the name Of small leaf noun
tain mahogany" The wood Is not
Evening star., 1943-06-30
Winning Contract
BY THE FOUR ACES.
Crime Doesn't Poy-No. 156

Most bridge crimes consist of
errors of ommission-horrible plays
that are the result of miscounting or,
even worse smiscalculation. There are
also, however. the grievous errors Of
omission-failure to make marked
lead, to give the proper signal or
to conduct such a simple defense
as was called for in this deal.
South dealer.
Both sides vulnerable.
AQ42
253
AJ10864
&73
AJe85 AA73
0K92 ny, V10876
oK5 oQ73
&K865 &J94
AK106
0AQJ4
192
%AQ102
The bidding:
South West North East
Q Pass 20 Pass
MI Pass 80 Pass
SNI Pass Pass Pass
West ODened the snode five
Evening star., 1943-06-30

3 MT Pass Pass Pass
West opened the spade five.
Dummy played low and East, who
saw the value of keeping the ace
to prevent the spade queen from
becoming an entry, signaled encour-
agement with the seven. Declarer
took the 10 and promptly led the 9
OF diamonds. West just as promptly
played the S spot and low card
was also played from dummy. East
co-operated in his own ruination
by winning the trick with the queen
After that the defenders took very
few tricks-too few to defeat the
contract.
This was one of those rare cases
involving two crimes in one trick
Vests guilt was the greater in that
1t came first and was bound to cost
one trick. Obviously, West should
have played the diamond king, not
the five, on the first lead of the
suit. If declarer had only two low
diamonds, and If North's spade
queen were not an entry, this would
isolate the entire diamond suit and
l1it declarer to one diamond trick.
l. declarer had more than two dia-
monds the defenders were out of
luck no matter how they played.
East's crime consisted of not pro-
tecting himself from his partners
error. East should have refused to
win the first diamond for the same
reason that West should have put
UP the king. Full recovery was i'm
possible, but at least East could nave
held. the enemy to two diamond
tricks instead of five.
X
Yesterday you were Oswald ia
coby's partner and, with both sides
vulnerable, you held:
AKA
0A973
oAQ1O3
&K109
The bidding:
Lightner You Schenken Jacoby
Pass CD
AnSWer-One no-trump. If you
open with any other bid and partner
responds one no-trump you cannot
tell whether to bid again or pass.
If he has minimum response you
may be too high at two no-trump
If he has as good as an ace, a king
and a jack, you will probably have
play for three no-trump. The
opening no-trump bid solves this
problem before it arises.
Score 100 per cent for one no.
trump, 70 per cent for one heart,
so per cent for one diamond, 40 per
cent for two no-trump.
Question No. 1,424.
Today you hold the same hand
and the bidding continues:
Lightner You Schenken Jacoby
Pass INT Pass Pass
% 90
What do you bid? (Answer to-
morrow
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Evening star., 1943-06-30

Cat EIlen could come up Tor ChrStmaS We had
each other days out Of "a.
Ellen got to Tacoma late the night of December %.
The next morning got up very early and drove
IN the country looking for Christmas tree small enough
to get into hotel We found just in time
get 1t back to town and for to get to McChord
go to work Brick Holstrom, who later made the Toxic
trip It. Witty and took of and famed tangents
where the Columbia River opens into the ocean
Brick got Jap sub that day. We him crcling and
dropping his bombs and by the time rot
where he the oil coming up in greasy bubbles as
If some awful thing throwing up under wateI. u
sinking confirmed.
Evening star., 1943-06-08

College, Aurora, N. Y. Grand
daughter of the late Rev. Charles E.
Avery, she was a direct descendant
of Elder William Brewster of the
Mayhower and Col. Ebenizer Avery
OF the American Revolution.
Mrs. Troughton was an activa
member of the Lewinsville Presby-
terian Church.
She is survived by son, Fred
w. Troughton, Pasadena, Calf,
and two daughters, Mrs. Charlotte
T. Corner, Mclean, and Mrs. Riley.
Funeral services will be held at
1890 a m. tomorrow at the Sud-
deth Funeral Home, Warrenton,
Va. Burial will be in the Bealton
Cemetery.
Evening star., 1943-06-08
WASHINGTON D. c. TUESDAY, JUNE g. 1913

show the instructor just what the
student is doing. There also is on
the desk, an electrically controlled,
delicate instrument, called crab"
which marks on a chart the area
in which the student is supposed to
be flying, his course, speed and other
information, so that when he comes
out there is a record Of all he has
done or failed to do.
At Atlanta Naval Air Station has
been erected the largest Link trainer
building in the world, according to
the officers. No student flyers are
trained at this school. It Is used
entirely for the instruction OF the
WAVES who will be sent to flyer
training areas in many parts of the
country, where they will become
ground instructors.
The task of instrument flying
is not an easy one for a ground
lubber. I tried one and theoret-
ically wrecked couple of planes
and myself a couple of times. But
thanks to the Link trainer, I came
out OF 1t whole.
For All Kinds of Flying.
The WAVES at Atlanta, when
they complete their instruction, will
be able to take a person who has
never flown and in a short time
teach him to fly a plane under ideal
conditions. The student is taught,
by means of the machine, to use
radio aids to navigation, how to
take off and land with instruments
alone, and to simulate trips from
town to town.
The instructors who are being
sent out from this school are re-
lieving hundreds of naval pilots
now doing this job. The flyers are
being sent to the combat zones.
So fast are the WAVE instructors
being turned out that, it was said,
in another three months all men
now engaged on this teaching task
will be replaced.
Some Training Planes.
However, the Atlanta station does
have number of trainer planes
for students. Each has a section
Evening star., 1943-06-08

where the student pilot cannot see
outside. The instructor pilot has
full view, and is at hand ready to
take the controls in the event the
student makes bad move. Along
side the pilot there is another stu
dent, who can also see outside, and
he, too. has a duplicate of the in
structor's controls before him, SO
that he can observe what the
"blacked-out" pilot is doing, and
learn.
There is also located here a school
for training enlisted men in the
maintenance OF the very delicate
flying instruments. They will be
trained to 60 out with the aerial
squadrons with full knowledge of
the methods of keeping the instru-
Evening star., 1943-06-08
Literote Law Makers
Required Under Bill
By the Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD, II.-A bill to re-
quire Illinois legislators to have an
eighth grade education was intro
duced in the House by Represent
ative J. S. Mundy, Democrat.
Mr.. Mundy said he knew of two
legislators within the last 10 years
who could neither read nor write.
"One," he added, got himself
elected three times"
Evening star., 1943-06-08

ments In working condition. The
men must be even more skilled than
Watchmakers, for the tolerances al
lowed in the mechanisms are more
delicate than in the finest OF time
pieces.
Evening star., 1943-06-08
Mrs. Jennie Troughton Dies;
Formerly Of Mclean, Va,

Mrs. Jennie Avery Troughton
86, resident of Mclean, Va, for
20 years, died Saturday in Clarion,
Pa, at the home Of her daughter,
Mrs. Martha T. Riley.
A native of Lafayette, Ind, Mrs.
Troughton was a graduate of Wells
Evening star., 1943-06-08
Young Women to Release
Pilot Instructors for
Combat Assignments

This is the second OF a series
OF articles giving a cross section
OF the NaUy's efforts to train
thousands OF young men to man
serUice planes in the lDar zones.
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-09
Wilys-bui Jeep from America the Arsenal of Democracy

was wysOverands fine staff Of engineers who; in close
cooperation with Army Service Foces created and peecedthe
Jeep This unit Of America modern motorized army procured
forces throughout the world The word-renowned GoDev
engine that drives all eePs with such power speed fexbiy
and economy, is exclusive wys Overland development.
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-09

Seven League Boots -. a scouting
party's Magic Carpet :. war cor
respondents Life Line.
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-09

It's A PEACE-LovING AMERICA reused
to fighting fury, determined to blast
Hitler's NaziS into the He'll they've
made for themselves, and to bring all
enemies of human liberty to ucon-
diional surrender. That, sir, is the
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-09

It's A MECHANICAL ARMY MULE with
power-pulsing "Go-Devil" heart
Detroit evening times., 1943-05-09

It's THE FLAMING BAYoNET of RETNBUTIoN; forged Fl
the steel of Freedom by the Pusating hands of ber
ing Americans; sharpened by the memory of Nazi atroc
and stepped in the hate of Marking of Warsaw, of Lid
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
ONE MINUTE PROFILE

During five years of Stardom,
he's never spent a penny of has
earnings. He ; never been
ivited to banquets because he's
the film colony's loudcSt eater.
He's never craVed fancy
cars-hes much faster on his
own feet. He reads his fu-
ture out of an inkpot instead of
a teacup. He dlsllkes lapin
fur coats except when worn by
their rightful owners, and he
hates rabbit stew. He can |
stand people who split hares. His
philosophy is Hare today, gone
tomorrow. He's so super
stitiouS he carries four rabbit
feet around with him all the
time. Despite what they say
about Gables ears, he can top
them. He thinks the best
way 10 keep thcater audiences
awake is TO give 'em more
fresh hare" That's him Bugs
B Il n n y, Leon Schleslnger 5
brightest cartoon star.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
BY ERSKlNE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent

With the ladies moving into
every other kind of job these
days it was bound TO happen.
Walter Huston will have the first
feminine standin in Hollywood
for his next picture at War
ners, The Country Lawyer. -
And speaking Of the male short
age, it's so serious in movie
town that Lana Turner had TO
marry the same man twice. -.
Kay kyser's doctors have warn
ed him to slow down or else.
He's been evoting all his spare
time from films and radio TO Ar
my camp entertainment.
Paramount has clipped half
an hour out of For Whom the
Bell Tolls since its sneak pre-
view. The film now runs two
hours and As minutes Inc
Andrews Sisters search for
song with Minneapolis twist
ended with the selection OF
That Man From Minneapolis,
winner in field Of 1900 ent-
ries. But here's a Taught was
written by three guys from De-
troit. Sign in the House of
Murphy. Its all right to drink
like a fish if you drink what a
fish drinks"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
McKENNY ON
BRIDGE
BY VIM. +. MCKINNEY
.,,.r;c,,s Gard Authority

II East and West had reached
contract of four spades on the
hand shown today, there wouid
be nothing to write about, but
getting into the wrong contracts
makes bridge interesting East
plunged into three no trump, and
YOU can see that if South opened
a diamond, North and South
would take five diamonds and
the ace of hearts. But North has
bid hearts. True, East bid one no
trump over one heart. and then
Jumped to three no trump. Here
is where the partnership bridge
comes in.
Let us say that South opens
the deuce of hearts. Should
North play the ten? / do not
think so. The opening Of the
deuce shows that South holds
three or four hearts with an
honor. That honor may be the
king-East may have bid no
trump with three hearts to the
queen. Therefore, North's cor
rect play is TO 60 up with the
ace. Then he should lay down
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04

No smoIl portion Of the credit tor Moeomo
eountys smashing April War Bond Drive belongs, ond
properly, to c. n. MoIbn, county war bond choir
man, to Roph Clark. Mount Clemens chairman, ond
to the several other community leaders whose un-
tirinq efforts made the record possible.
II is true Of course thot to the public itself be-
onas the moior shore Of the credit An awakened ond
woreonseous eitizenry dug deep TO push the county
total we'll above the million dolor mork. To soy
that the purchase Of bonds constitutes the worlds
best investment, while true, TO Ieove port OF the
story untold. We ore confident thot Moeomb county
residents, in common with their fellows from eoost to
eoost are thinking in terms other than those OF cold
dollars and cents when they eormork port OF their
incomes for prosecution Of the war.
Americans in all walks Of life have mode the
shoterns Of all anticipated war bond goals possible
Every stroto Of society ond every carries in its
pockets evidence Of its whole support OF. ond
participation in. the which hos ensuIfed human
ity.
Thot foet alone should reflect before the deoth-
soted eyes Of Hitler, Hrohto and MussoIini the
spectre Of retributon TO come.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
. IN HOLLYWOOD

If YOU don't think Deanna
Durbin has grown up. wait till
YOU see her new film, Hers to
Hold" In one scene she does
a semi-strip tease when the eve
ming gown she's wearing starts
to fall apart during dance
number. The Screen Act
or's Guild has arranged for the
employment Of 200 actors to
work split shifts at local air
craft plant. l wonder if the
agents will try TO collect 10 per
cent of their salaries?
Modesty note, as passed on by
Edith Gwynn: When Jimmy
Stewart first Joined the Army,
they gave him the usual ques-
tionnaire 10 fill out After the
question asking his occupation,
Jimmy wrote: Actor" followed
by a big black question mark
Celluloid army sergeants
are getting tougher. Now it's
Sgt Peter LORE in a new MIG
NJ film, "A Thousand Shall
Fall" Mickey Rooney is
begging M-G-M to send him
overseas on an entertainment
iunket but so far the studio has
mixed the idea.
Stuart Erwin has the inside
track on the Will Rogers film
biography. II would be a great
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04

the king of diamonds. telling his
partner that he hold the diamond
ace for the purpose of rc-cntry.
in case East attempts to block
the heart suit.
South will shout for the con-
tinuation Of the diamond suit by
playing the nine-spot on the
king North will then play the ace
of diamonds, and he will get the
three from South. Thus, even
with a heart opening, the declar-
er loses the first six tricks.
If North ducks the first heart,
East will cash six club tricks
and six spade tricks, making q
grand slam.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
BY PETER EDISON

The proposed new tax bill re-
ported out to the House of Rep
resentatives by the Ways and
Means Committee isn't law
yet, so maybe it's unfair to both
or you with some of its provi-
sions. The bill will unquestion-
ably be amended i'm many ways
before il comes law, but just to
give you an idea of what's cook
in, take the case of an average
guy and consider briefly what
the various withholding tax and
tax forgiveness proposals would
do to him. 1t will give you an
idea Of how complicated life
might become.
Soldiers will be exempt on
service pay up to $500, so take
the case of an over-draft-age
married man with no depend
ents, making $4,000 a year and
claiming all personal exemp-
tons. The income tax return he
filed March Is, l943, would
have shown him liable for a tax
of around $500. Assume he paid
the first quarterly installment of
Sl33 then. will pay another Sl33
come June Is, a total Of S266.
So far so good, but watch what
happens next:
Under the proposed new tax
bill, this S266 would not be
counted $ payment on the taxes
TO be collected on the mans
1912 income as the man thought
when he filed the return. In
stead, il would be considered as
a credit against the taxes he
will owe on his 1913 income.
That makes il a kind of pay-as-
he-Went plan, a kind of current,
advance income tax payment on
this years income, instead of a
payment on last years income.
RUNE PLAN VS.. NEW
PROPOSAL
But now see what would
happen TO the taxes on 1912 in
come, since the taxes already
paid in 1913 aren't to lie counted
against that bill. Under the orig
inal Ruml plan, those taxes
would have been forgiven en-
tirely but would be reduced by
applying the l94l tax rate TO the
1912 income. This would not
mean that taxi ayers would have
TO make out a new income tax
return, figuring what they owed
in terms of the previous lower
rates. Instead. by simple form
ula in the new tax bill-a table,
not precise calculation-tax-
payers would be informed OF
what taxes they owe on their
1912 income. In the case of the
$4,000 year-man m e ntioned
above. the new tax on 1912 in
come would be 1926. which the
man would still owe the govern
ment
Under the new bill, the man
would be given three years in
which TO pay this 1926 taxes on
1912 income. He would show 1t
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
{. QUESTIONS
AND
ANSWERS .

Q-How many people play
cards?
"A nationwide survey indi-
Gates that 83 per cent Of Amerl-
cans are addicted. in varying de-
grees, 10 the pastime OF card
playing.
O-Have the Greeks who man
aged TO escape from their m
vaded homeland, any remnants
Of a navy with which they today
battle the axis
Ayes. Though Hitler and
Mussolini h d the superior
power two years ago TO knock
out a substantial portion OF the
Greek fleet, those losses were
replaced by the British. and
Greek dcstroycrs and torpedo
boats are on the proWl for
enemy prey.
Q-LlNer' @ II = VI '','s 10,
near's ana o'her Ndile,s =" 'a,
have low point value. Does tins
mean that they have less nutri-
tional value than higher point
meats
A-No. + heir nutritlonal
value is so high that from that
standpoint they are about the
best buy available.
V" no. oi,'uS VI uoeo o..
uscu chieiiy ioi Ai"'' sen"
ou'y
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

on the income tax return which
he will file March l.. 1914. II
the man chose TO pay all his tax
es on 1912 income at that time,
he would get a per cent dis
count and would have TO pay
only S22l84. IL he paid one
third, or S78.67, on March Is,
1914, and the remaining two
thirds on March Is, l945, he
would get 2 per cent discount
on his total liability or 6 per
cent discount on his remaining
liability and would have to pay
total of 1921 %. Or, if he paid
in the three equal installments,
March Is, 1914. l945 and 1916,
he would get no discount at all.
In cases of hardship he could
even get three-year extensions
on any one years payment as il
comes due.
Now go back TO the collec-
ton Of taxes on l943 income. IL
Congress does not change the
rates, the tax on MIR. S40O0-a-
years income would still be
1892. In addition TO this income
tax, however, there will be 1913
Victory taxes amounting 10
Sis. deducted from his pay,
which would make his total
federal tax bill for this yeai
1892 plus Sis or SCAT.
WITHHOLDING TAXES
But this man has already paid
in S266 in his March Is and
June Is income tax payments, a.
mentioned in paragraph two. IL
addition TO this, the new tax
bill proposes to start July l.
1913, the collection Of 20 pc,
cent withholding taxes, deduct
cd from the pay envelope. Three
per cent of this would be con
sidered Victory tax and II per
cent a credit against taxes on
1913 income. In the case of the
$4,000 a-year-man, paid $685. 80
a month, Sll0 a month Of which
would be exempt from With
holding taxes, the withholding
tax deduction would amount 10
S47.70 a month. as calculated BY
tables in the tax bill itself. For
the last six months of l943, these
withholding taxes cred I @ Il
against income taxes due would
amount to six times $47.70, or
S286.20
Add this 1896 90 TO the SEQ
already paid in and it gives A
total of 1852 90 which the man
will have paid as he went
through l943. His total tax bill
for the year being S647, hoWev-
er, when the man makes out his
income tax return TO submit by
March Is, 1914, il will show he
still owes the difference between
SCAT and s55220 or S9480 IS
taxes on his 1913 income, paya-
bic is 1914.
Complete pay-as-you 90 taxa
ton is thus never accomplished.
There's always day of reckon
ing in which it will be found the
taxpayer owes something else.
The thing to do about all this
right now nothing. The bill
isn't law yet, and il probably
viii be changed. Even if it isn't,
the collector of internal reve-
nue. will have to figure this oil
out for you and send you bill
for what you should pay Sept.
Is and Dec. Is, l943, il any,
thing. Few taxpayers could fig
urc it out for themselves.
But can't Washington dream
up the damnedest things?
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-05-04
A.E.F. IN TUklSIA

The folks at home have been worrying about
men in Tunisio. From such sconty news os we had
received, disappointing inference had begun to
build itself, that American forces not measuring
up to the occasion that time otter time our men
were BEING saved from military setbocks because the
British carried the burden.
There wos in this no implication Of lack Of cour-
ooe or devotion. But oymen - and lot Of mtory
people - have been worrying lest the Americans just
did not possess the necessary training for the task
that had been handed Them If this true Of the
eorIy contingents in Africa~- presumably the best
prepared - we wondered what would happen in
Europe when ereener troops had to foce the flow
er Of the Reioh's veteran fighters
Secretary Of War Stimson with q perspicocity
which emphasizes the wisdom Of letting the public
in news has gone far toward setting our
minds at rest
The Americans did not plough through to the
ooost and "oose the trop" Rommel, soys Mr.
Stimson because that wos NOT their assignment. A
relatively small contingent Of four divisions three
infantry and one ormored as ordered to hold O
lOO-miIe flank, pressing the Germans sufficiently TO
divert much oxis oroor as they could SO that Gen.
eroI MonteomeD's British Eighth Army could pillow
through the Moreth line ond up the coost
1t is the troops who break through and capture
territory moterie and prisoners TO whom the heod-
lines 60 But like the holfbook who makes the touch.
DOWNS their depends upon the seeffooing
co-ordnoted efforts Of nen,en and Of other backs
whom nobody except few skilled experts ever no.
tioe.
The Italians fronk for once, when they soy
that the British Eighth Army is the greatest fighting
unit in the world today. 1t and the British First Army
deserve oil the credit they have been given for their
work in North Afroo.
If General Eisenhower decided to use his best,
most experienced men for the breok-throuqh and TO
assign ereene troops for the equally vto but techni.
coIIy less difficult holding operations, then he wos
showing excellent Judgment
Our men ore less veteran than the British, for one
reason, because England wos in the war more than
two years before we were If the Fotes kind, our
will hove time to acquire as long experience
in this the British have oIreody But we needn't
worry about them. They will do what is given them
to do.