davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1943-04-18

CAMP SPRINGS, Md ACRE TO 2
acre tracts, ready to plant partly wooded
S295 up: easy terms. OWNER, GE 6192
Evening star., 1943-04-18

NEXT TO WAR BONDS
Here are the best investments you will
Rent, $50: price, S5,250. Det., 8 rms, IL
paths n. VIII; rented, $50; price. S5,25O
Call at once! They won't last long
TT PAYS TO OWN YOUR OWN
Alex K. Anderson & Co. Elk. 6256
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$500.
10 ACRES.

Fifteen miles from Washington, intersec-
ton Defense Highway and Enterprise rd.;
hye-room farmhouse. mi. outbuidings;
electricity and telephone available; bus
service; convenient to schools churches
and store. OWNER. Telephone Bowie
3403 after pm
Evening star., 1943-04-18
OFFICES FOR RENT.

OFFICE ROOMS. SMALL, SIS AND $50
mo. furn.: calls. taken. extra: 10 Minis
d'town. 1884 Columbia rd. NV. AD 433O
WOODWARD B L D G = SECRETARIAL
service. outside office. furnished RE 6226
Ext l09 SUNDAYS. wk,days 2-5 DI. 1910.
ROOM IN LAW SUITE. DENRIKE BUILD
ing: to lawyer. real estate agent Call
MR.. TAYLOR. District 6lo3 1Qs
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NEAR BUS.

7-room brick house with > baths, built
1e41 Has oak floors fireplace. full base
ment, range, refrigerator and plenty of
storage space: on a corner lot of approx
SIS, 700. $4,000 down, bal. S73 per mo.
See MASON HIRST, Annandale, Va, at
the end of Columbia pike. Phone Alex
andria 5s19. Closed Sundays.
Home, Investment and Security
Combined in this S-room and bath house
Furnace heat. Ten acres of land, stream.
Approx. 400 #. frontage on Georgia ave.
extended. Bus service. About 6i2 miles
from District line. Must be sold to settle
estate. Price, $4,000 Reasonable terms
For information call NE. 1850 or 81. 1929.
Evening star., 1943-04-18
DESK SPACE FOR RENT.

DESK SPACE = TYPIST OR STENO(
rapher can have free use of office, typ
writer, in return for light services. B,
1911, Star 10.
Evening star., 1943-04-18

11E-A. FARM. GROOM DWELLING,
barn, poultry house, near hard road;
taxes. about Sl7; electricity available;
possession, at once; 81 800.
liza; farm, dairy barn. on hard road,
S-room house, electricity, telephone. dairy
barn; all buildings in good repair;
meadow. timber low taxes; an unusual
Investment; $4,000. HUBERT P BUR-
DETTE. phone 123 Mt. Airy, Nd
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1929 X st. NV
4th floor walk up): large rooms. in
excellent condition: $50 per month.
FLOYD E. DAVIS CO.,
1929 X st. NV. MA. O352.
Evening star., 1943-04-18
COUNTRY PROPERTY FOR SALE.

NEARLY 60 ACRES, BETWEEN SUIT
land. Nd. and new airport site. Price
soy $259 per acre. WSrth i Service With With
CORP. Atlantic 7S40
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
CAN THE WORLD LEARN
THE LESSON OF PEACE?

Another Christmas has come and gone
9-another day of tribute to and worship
Z of the Prince of Peace. Another Christ
smas with the world at war; with men
skilling each other, nations and peoples
sbeing destroyed. To some it would seem
va hollow mockery, this observance. Yet
Tout of it surely will come thought that
awill grow and grow until it becomes in
Afact the woof out of which real and last
eing peace will come.
:. Until the world knows and under
4stands the need of revival of the spirit
sual aspect Of life and applies that prin-
sciple to governments among men, peace
will not be sure or permanent. Some may
.term it the spirit of brotherly love, but
lit must be more than that The world
simply has been thinking wrong; it has
@gone tar from the binding law of honesty
-of purpose, of give and take and greed
-and selfishness have ruled. Nothing but
.strife and war can follow and such prin-
-ciple And this spiritual revival must
s~stem from the individual and move on
up to swing nations into the tide.
: If Christmas glorifies the Prince of
peace and if it is good to turn to that
feeling at Christmas, then it is good for
every day in the year and every year in
Ethe century and on through time eternal.
-But we are too prone as a people and as
"a world to forget Christmas the next
sday and wait another year to celebrate
-and then wonder why peace indeed has
sfailed. We celebrate Washington's birth
day and then go about making "entan-
egling alliances" We mark the Fourth
spf July when we parade our patriotism
sand then let unwise rulers reign and con-
sditions exist which tear down what the
men of 76 started and finished we mark
stho birthday of the Great Emancipator"
.and then go on enslaving ourselves to
sserfdom far worse than the men suffer
led when Lincoln's pen set them free;
eve observe Thanksgiving and prate of
BLESSINGS we enjoy, and ignore for an
sother year the principles that make such
sbounties possible.
: This years Christmas more than ever
SHOULD implant in the minds and hearts
fof men the world over to shed old gar
'ments and put on new-to determine that
there shall be peace by being right as
peoples and nations by turning back and
,adhering to these principles we profess
Ito believe will achieve peace Let right
.and reason, not prejudice and hypocracy
point the way
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
AWKWARD SITUATION

A dispatch from London to one
American news service says: by
condemning the new provisional
government of Partisan leader Gen.
Broz CTito), King. Peters govern
ment in Cairo has created an aWl;..
ward situation both for itself and
for the British government
That is an interesting point of
view King Peters government
pushed itself into exile by refusing
to go along with the collaboration
that had been arranged between its
predecessor and the Nazis. 1t play
ed the Anglo-Britls:i game Now IA
Soviet-sponsored pretendership has
set up business. King Peter is re-
proved for protecting.
Apparently it has become bad
form to object if a neighbor moves
into your house while you are away
on government business, and sends
word that you must not come home.
Yet it is only human. We can
understand how Peter must feel.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
TAXES AND SUBSIDIES

(Christian Science Monitor)
The Congressional decision to continue
the present subsidy Set-up for another
60 days before final vote is probably
the best thing that could be done at this
time The whole issue of subsidies has
become snarled in such wrangle be-
tween farm and labor blocs, between
political factions, and between New Deal
ers and those who can only see subsidies
as another boondoggle that an intelligent
decision seemed momentarily out of the
question.
1t may be that two months hence the
whole inflationary picture will be more
clearly limned in the public thought and
that the position of subsidies in the con-
stellation of anti-inflationary controls
can be seen without the present emotion
alism. In the meantime, the president is
not left disarmed in meeting labor's ever
more insistent demands for higher wages.
The tax picture, as drawn by the SEN
ate Finance Committee, is less encOurag-
ng. 1t continues the complicated and
largely unfair Victory tax. 1t includes
no real reform, or simplification, of the
tax returns, as many hoped. 1t falls
S8,216,O00, 900 short of the S10,5OO,0O0,-
600 asked for by the Administration as
the minimum increase in taxes if the anti
initiation fight is to be bolstered
Whether the revenue bill will be much
improved when the Senate and House
conference committee goes to work on it
is doubtful. Unless there is some gen.
eral public awakening to the conse-
quencas of initiation in the next few weeks
before final adoption, history will prob
ably record that one more nation fought
through a war with an ineffective tax
program.
The decision to double excise taxes on
furs and jewelry, and to make substan-
tial increases in amusement and cabaret
check imposts, is designed more to an
swer criticism of inflationary spending
in some quarters than to raise revenue.
And while it is good as far as it goes,
much broader list of taxable items and
luXuries, aimed at really substantial
revenues, would more realistically meet
the situation.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
S. Burton Heath
Writes:
THEY CAN-IF THEY WILL

! Secretaries Stimson Of War and
Knox of the Navy have assured
/ Senator Vandenberg, and incident
! ally the public, that there is
nothing in the law to prevent Gen.
eral Douglas Macarthur or Lieut.
Com. Harold StaSsen from sub
mitting to a presidential draft.
Once either the general or the
lieutenant commander had been
elected, it would be up to President
Roosevelt whether he would re-
lease his successor elect to accept
the office. However, if the Re-
publican convention should draft
either of the two officers, and he
should be elected, it is hardly con-
ceivable that Mr.. Roosevelt would
defy the popular mandate and leave
the country without a chief eXecu-
tive.
To us. it does not seem as
though the question posed to the
two secretaries, Alphabetically, by
Senator Vandenberg, is the question
really at issue.
What troubles many admirers of
one or other of the two potential
COP candidates now in uniform is
this: How would General Mac
Arthur stack up if he proved willing
TO leave his great task in the Pacific,
to pigeon-hole his promise that he
will return to the Philippines at the
head of a victorious American
Army, in order to run for the
presidency?
The problem with regard to Com
mander Stassen is not quite SO
clearcut. His Importance in the
naval picture is hardly so great as
that of General Macarthur in the
military. His departure from his
wartime assignment would not leave
so great vacuum.
1t is not difficult to conceive of
General Macarthur, or for that
matter of General Eisenhower or
General Marshall, running for the
presidency after the war and per-
hapS winning it. That has been
done before.
George washington did it. SO did
Andrew Jackson, William Henry
Harrison, Ulysses S. Grant. But
they waited until their political ac-
I tivities could not interfere with
their military duties.
The question isn't merely one of
active seeking. Human nature being
what it is, even modest receptivity
on the part Of a military officer
might interfere with the close
liaison that should exist between a
high field commander and his supe-
riors in Washington.
Itssinight prove easier to find n
COP presidential candidate than to
replace Macarthur satisfactorily in
the Southwest Pacific.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
NOTICE TO CREDITORS
No. 1919

ESTATE OF GUITAR SINGH
DECEASED.
Notice is hereby given by tile
undersigned, M. d. ZINN, Puplic
Administrator, as administrator OF
the estate of GUJJAR SINGH, de-
ceased. to the creditors of and all
persons having claims against the
said deceased, that within SIX
months after the first publication
of this notice they either file them
with the necessary vouchers in the
office of the Clerk of the Superior
Court of the State of California,
in and for the County of Imperial,
or exhibit. them with the necessary
vouchers to the said M. d. Zinn,
as administrator of said estate, at
the office of D. B. Roberts, 2O7
Bank of America Bldg, Ell Centre,
California, the same being the place
for the transaction of the business
of the said estate in the County of
Imperial State of California.
Dated at Ell Centre, California,
this 9th day of December, l943.
M. d. ZINN,
Administrator of the Estate of
GUITAR SINGH,
mo. 2O (D7-14-21-28)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
U. 5. Improves
Weapons to
Batter Enemy

WASHINGTON. Dec. %. (UP)-
American secret weapons are being
employed against the Germans and
Japanese, Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox said today.
Discussing the work of the Bu-
reau of Ordnance. Knox said:
IN the field of new weapons, or
secret weapons, the navy has by no
means been idle. The japanese es-
pecially have felt the sting of
weapons which although greatly
improved, nevertheless are of con-
ventional types. japanese and Nazi
alike, however, also have felt de-
struction wrought by weapons not
known to them, and will continue
to do So
KnCX also revealed that there are
six times as many aircraft carriers,
including the escort types, in COM
mission as there were when the
japanese attacked Pearl Harbor,
and that the carriers offensive
sting has been greatly increased by
the Corsair and Hellcat fighters,
the most powerful carrier-based
fighting planes in the world.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
HANGER FIGHTS DISMISSAL
FROM NAVAL MILITIA

LOS ANGELES, Dec. %. CUP)-
H. Russell Hager today charged
Gov. Earl Warren and Ray w.
Hayes, acknowledgement of the state
militia, exceeded their authority in
dismissing him as lieutenant COM
mander in the state naval militia
and asked the superior court to set
aside the dismissal.
In a petition on file in superior
court, Hanger said he, II other
lieutenant commanders and one
commander were dismissed on Sepo'
% by an order that was arbitrary,
capricious and Void
He said none of the causes for
justifiable dismissal applies in his
case So
Hanger said he received his APP
pointment from former Gov. Cul-
bert L. Olson on Oct. co. 1912.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
STORKS ON LOOSE
Sacramento Bee)

lSdcTdHeIilO Dec)
In making report for a Hartford,
Conn.,, hospital, DR.. Wilmar M. Allen
described the visits of the stork in the
following air minded language:
Never ending squadrons of storks
have bombed us with 1712 tons of babies.
Forty-two were block busters weighing
more than 10 pounds. There were some
incendiaries, with some spark of life,
weighing as little as / pound 13 ounces.
There was no damage and casualties were
extremely light. No storks were shot
down so we may expect continued as
saults''
Probably every other hospital in the
country could issue a similar communi-
que. for the nations birthrate is at new
high and gives evidence of going even
higher.
That will be all right with American
citizens. These raids by the stork are one
type of aerial bombardment they favor.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
SIMPLIFIED BANKING

Challenging a manpower short
age, Tokyo is simplifying bookkeep-
ing in Japanese banks. The first
step, already announced, was to
stop paying or crediting interest on
deposits. The next one, it would
seem probable, should be to stop
Withdrawals.
This would save more manpoWer
than banning deposits. 1t is easy
to take in money, so long as it is
not necessary to record it minutely.
When no interest has to be paid
and no Withdrawals are to be per-
mitted, no bookkeeping at all is
necessary.
We make no charge for this sug
gestion to Tojo. We feel that the
reaction in Tokyo should win us a
medal from Washington.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
FACES MURDER CHARGE

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 90. CUP)-
Picked out of an army induction
line yesterday, Charles Comstock,
20, today was charged with murder
ing John Yaklavich, 51-year- old
Pacific beach grocer during a hold
up attempt Dec. %. Comstock de-
MED the allegation and said he ar
rived two weeks ago in San Diego
from Denver. He is a former in
mate of Preston Industrial school,
lone, Cal. Yaklavich's wife, his
daughter and his niece witnessed
the Staying. Two holdLp men
broke into the house during the
family dinner.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
ENLISTS AFTER WAIT

LOS ANGELES, Dec. % up
After a two-year wait, William Ed
ward Rhodse, 17-year-old descen-
dant of Empire Builder" Cecil
Rhodes was scheduled to arrive to-
day to enlist in the U. S. Navy.
Rhodes, a Pan-American Always
employee in Mexico City, was only
IS years old when a cousin was
killed at Pearl Harbor and had to
wait two years to start paying off
what he calls "a personal debt. =
Though Mexican born, young
Rhodes was naturalized when he
was two and attended Michigan
schools for six years.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
sTREETCAR CONDUCTOR
INJURED IN BRAWL

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 20. 1or9
An attempt to take over
Phoenix streetcar by eight Negro
soldiers was broken up by miiieaIy
policemen and Two highway paeroi-
men early yesterday. 49,.
Officers reported the fight start
ed when the conductor tried to stop
some rough talk In the lieilC
that ensued several panes OF glass
were broken before police arrived.
Conductor Charles Stroup was
taken to st. Joseph's hospital as
the result of being struck over the
head with the butt-end of knile'
and Bill Loeffler, city employe, was
roughed up, officers said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
caPiitoI TaIk
bly,
Peter Edison

on what will be the commercial
postwar air routes. Ascension Is
land, before the war, was certainly
no great asset, except for millions
of terms and sea turtles who went
there to lay eggs. It's human popu-
iation numbered 800, mostly living
in the chs community of George
Town.
But it's az. :.:rcrtant air base
now, and it's 10 longer secret,
and what's to be done about it and
the hundreds more like it, in the
oost-War by-and-by, is free topic
for debate
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
INJURED IN MISHAP

LOS ANGELES, Dec. %. (UP)-
City street department employe B.
D. Smith, IS, today lost a leg when
he was run over by a streetcar at
the downtown corner of Seventh
street and Grand ave. Smith, who
had just alighted from one street.
car, stepped into the path of
second car driven by D. A. Whet-
more, police reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOll0loing edit
oriais are presented as interesting opin-
ions Doiced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

1t was the first time l had seen what
our planes can do. Boy, they are ter
rifle. | don't want to get caught in any
more American bombing raids.-Lieut.
William c. Henley, who bailed out over
Italy and spent nine days behind Ger
man lines.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28
WILL THIS END LABOR
iRACKETEERlNG?

Conviction of seven racketeers in New
: York City who extorted huge sums from
the film industry echoes widespread sat
,isfaction. That among them were mem
sbers of the old Al Capone gang of Chi
,cago makes the conviction all the more
emphatic. Their conviction came through
the assistance of William Bioff and
George Browne, already convicted, for
mer head of the international Alliance
of Theatrical Stage Employees. The tes-
timony of these two revealed some in
teresting phases of the racket. To them,
the whole game was just good busi-
ness" Their methods were as amazing
as they were diabolical How an indus
try would countenance such hold-up
still remtains a mystery. But it happen
ed and over period Of years. 1t equally
is as amazing that the rank and file Of
labor will permit this kind of business
While conviction was obtained in these
cases, it still remains for labor itself
to clean house.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28

The trouble in India arose from the
enormous expenditure of goods and SER
vices by our own government, by the
military authorities, and by the Ameri-
can authorities. all on the one hand, and
the serious curtailment in supply of con-
sumer goods on the other.-Sir John
Anderson, British NJ P.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-12-28

The present war situation is very COM
plicated The enemy, who was defeated
at the beginning, is trying to overwhelm
our nation.-Jap. Premier Hideki ToJo.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-08

that hill to control the situation
As we moved forward they were
shooting us from In front and be
hind. I was flanked by two SER
geants as I moved toward the hill
One of them shouted. You can't live
forever, boys He was shot through
the head five minutes later, dying
instantly.
I'm another minute the other
sergeant was shot through the back.
I put my Browning automatic rifle
against my chest and started rolling
on the ground until l fell into a
shell hole 10 yards away. I was
joined there by another sergeant.
Japs Kept Coming.
"At this point made up my
mind that I'd be killed in another
few minutes anyway. so the two of
us left the shell hole and run up
the hill and got behind the pillbox,
swarming with Japs. The sergeant
and I opened fire with our rifles.
That's where I was credited with
getting ~ of them. They fired at
us with pistols and when their am
munition gave out they threw rocks
at us. Occasionally the Japs would
rush out of their trenches with their
knives and swords waving wildly
and charge suicidally into marine
bayonets."
1t. Turner enlisted in the ma
rines at Portland. Greg, in July,
1898. He later was promoted to
platoon sergeant, then admitted to
officers candidates school and COM
missioned In May, 1912.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-08
Your Income Tax
No. 36-Deductions for Bod Debts. (Purt y

and uncollectible, he Is entitled to
a deduction, not because of the pay
ment itself. but because the pay
ment gives rise to a claim which be-
comes a bad debt. II the indorser
or guarantor reports on the cash
receipts and disbursements basis,
and meets his obligation by giving
his personal note for the worthless
note Of the principal debtor, he may
not claim the deduction until the
year In which the note is paid. How
ever, If he reports on the accrual
basis, the deduction would be al
lowed in the year in which he gave
his note in settlement of the obliga-
ton.
The provisions regarding deduc-
ton for bad debts do not apply to
securities which have become worth
less, as such losses are required to
be treated as a loss from the sale or
exchange OF capital assets reportable
in Schedule F. and in item 8 OF the
return Form 1040.
Where debt is ascertained to be
recoverable only in part, 1t Is per-
MISSILE to take deduction for
partial worthlessness not in excess
Of the amount which actually be-
comes worthless within the taxable
year.
In the case Of taxpayers engaged
in business in which credit to Gus
toners is factor, the reserve meth
cd Of deducting bad debts may be
employed under the provisions of
the statute.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-08
6. {. Murphy Report!
Profits Reduced 10
S5.33 a Share
1912 Earnings Compare
With $40 q Shore
In Previous Year
BY the Associated Press.

=
NEW YORK, Feb. &C. c.
Murphy d. Co. reported today for
1912 net profit Of 1924, 500, equal to
$3.50 a share on the common stock,
compared with $3,660, $40, or $7.20 a
share, in 194l.
Dresser Manufacturing Co.
Dresser Manufacturing Co. report
ed for the fiscal year ended October
81 net profit Of $1,72S,5l7. equal to
$5.16 q share on the capital stock.
For 10 months ended October 81,
194l, net profit was $1,0l0,615, equal
to 1901 a share. The fiscal year was
changed in 1912.
r. Hoe T. Co.
r. Hoe d Co., printing press and
equipment manufacturers, reported
for the fiscal year ended September
80, net profit of '$o47, $40. after
charges and Federal taxes Of q, 230,-
900. This compared with $S73, $40
after charges and taxes OF $645, 900
in the preceding fiscal year.
Sears, Roebuck.
Sears, Roebuck 81 Co., mail order
and retail merchandising firm, re-
ported sales Of 56,69S 1888 in Janu-
airy, o. decline Of 1875 per cent from
sales Of $50 ,626, 1853 in January, 1912.
Sales for the IL months ended
January 81. constituting the COM
pany's fiscal year, were 1904 IA, 043,
Oh 10 per cent from 1915, III az In
the preceding IL months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-02-08

No deductions for bad debts aris-
ing out Of services, including rents,
is allowable unless the amounts due
have been included in income, either
in the year in which the deduction
as a bad debt is sought to be made
or for a previous year. Thus, I'M
collectible bills rendered by profess
sional men, such as physicians, law
yers, dentists, ETC., are not deducti-
BILE as bad debts unless the amount
of such bills rendered have been in
cluded In the income reported by
the taxpayer. Where the taxpayer
reports on the cash receipts and
disbursements basis. it is obvious
that the amount of the bad debt has
not been returned as income, and
would, therefore, not be deductible.
The rule also applies to other debts
arising out of services. such as COM
missions due to statesmen, salaries or
wages due clerks, executives and
others for services, and rentals due
landlords on rental property, as well
as to debts arising out of sales In the
case of a business conducted on the
cash receipts and disbursements
basis.
A deduction for bad debt may arise
where the taxpayer. as indorser or
guarantor on an obligation, has been
obliged to pay the debt of the prin-
cipal. When the indorser or guar
antor pays a debt, he is subrogated
to the rights of the creditor against
the principal debtor: and If his
claim against the debtor is worthless