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Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
Congress Scans
Food Stamp
Plan on Surplus

WASHINGTON, Sept. l9 CUP)-
A move TO revive the federal food
stamp plan-conceiVed during the
depression to aid the economically
unfortunate-is under way in Con-
oreSs as a means Of absorbing i'm
pending food SurpluseS and asSur-
ing balanced diet to some lG,C00,-
600 lower income Americans.
A Senate agriculture and forestry
subcommittee met 10 act on an en-
abling measure and Chairman Guy
NJ. Gillette, Cd, Iowa, said it
undoubtedly" would be approved
with a recommendation that the
full committee speed it to the floor.
Gillette said however, that the
measure probably would not become
law during this session of Congress,
even though the Senate may accept
it. Nevertheless, he said, Senate
passage will form a basis for early
House consideration soon after the
18th Congress conVeneS in January.
Introduced by Senators George d.
Aiken. (RD, Vermont, and Robert M.
La Toilette Jr., (P), Wisconsin, the
bill would:
|. Authorize issuance Of free food
allotment stamps in denominations
of 81 and 1G cents. to be distributed
on the basis Of family income and
family size They would be good at
any regular food dealers. The deal
er would be reimbursed by the
treasury.
2. Ban the payment of food sub
sidies unless specifically approved
by Congress.
8. Establish a basic food allot-
ment" consisting of: milk or its
equivalent in cheese, evarorated
milk or dry milk-five quarts; pota-
toes and sweet potatoes - four
pounds; dry beans. peas and nuts
eight ounces; leafy, green or yellow
Veget b e s-one pound, eight
ounces: ether vegetables and fruits
two pounds, five ounces; four
eggs; meat. poultry and flsh-one
pound, eight ounces; flour and
cereals-four pounds, seven ounces;
fats and oils-l4 ounces; sugars,
syrups and preserveS-l2 ounces.
The basic food allotment was
described as the minimum amount
of food which should be available
to each person for a week. The food
stamps would be intended to ill
out the diet Of persons who ether
wise would not have this much
] food, and to bring their diet as close
] 10 this minimum as possible.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19

We Americans have been belleV-
ing in and repeating a certain falry
tale about taxes. Somewhere we got
the icea that by taxing things-like
transactions, or corporations, or
goods-We could get out of taxing
individuals. This is a fallacy pure
and simple. Only people can pay
taxes, and no matter where they
are levied, eventually they come
out of some individual taxpayers
pocket. And the mere fact that
often the taxpayer Goes not know
ne is paying one OF these 'hidden"
taxes simply adds an element OF
deceit to something which is al
ready unfair.
TWO PROPOSALS
In its postwar federal tax plan
for high employment recently
proposed, the committee for econo-
mic development seeks to remedy
two Of the more inequitable and
damaging of these pasS-the-buck
taxes by % eliminating the tax
on corporation income and 90 abol-
ishing all federal excise or sales
taxes except those on liquor, tobac-
co, and possibly gasoline.
Neither of these proposals means
that some group of taxpayers gets
out of something The committee
proposes that the stockholders or
owners of corporations be taxed, the
-fi,, h1tt
that we a1O.ish the double taxing
first of corporate income as 1t is
received by the company and again
as it is paid cut in dividends to
the owners. Not only is this double
taxation unfair to the investors
who bear it, but it has several
other definitely bad results. 1t cuts
down the amount of income which
the corporation can pillow back into
improvements, expansion, and the
creation of new jobs. 1t raises the
prices which the corporation must
charge for whatever good it makes
1t restricts the amount and the
rates of wages which the corpora
ton can afford to pay to its en-
ployes. And finally, 1t encourages
people to put their money into
safe" taX-eXempt bones instead
of investing in established or new
corporations which will use the
money to expand and thus create
more production and more jobs.
ABOLITION PLAN
Abolition of the excise taxes pro-
posed under the CED plan would
remove around three billion dollars
now being taken mainly from the
pockets of lower income earners
who can least afford to pay them
for example, the auto stamp on the
windshield of a jalopy costs the
same s. as the one on a limousine,
and there are lot more of the for
mer than of the latter. Also, since
excise taxes are paid out of income
which otherwise would go for more
goods, they tend to curtail markets
and thus cut down jobs.
In general, the CED tax plan
proposes a general overhauling of
our federal tax program SO as to
replace such unfair attempts to
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
Russians Seize
Rornania Chiefs
As War Criminals

LONDON, Sspt. 49, UPD-The
Moscow radio said Monday night
that Marshal Ion Antonescu, for
mer dictator in Romania: Foreign
Minister Miahi Antonesu, and other
high Romanian and German Off
cials had been seized by the Scviets
in Romania and detained as war
criminals.
Among the captives was Karl
Clodius, German envoy to Romania,
the broadcast said.
1t WAS the first specific word of
the fate of the Nazi collaboration
lists in Romania when the Red army
swept through the capital and the
ROmanians broke their alliance
with Germany to join the Allies.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
Editorials and Comment

selves now because of the summer vaca-
ton when the children were not congreg-
ating IN large numbers, but more speciii-
cally for the reason that soon after the
war is over motor traffic again will as
sume tremendous proportions and the
removal of restriction will necessitate
learning driving rules anew.
Let's have clean record IN FL Centre.
Let's have no traffic accidents.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
LETS ROAD CONTRACT

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 10. tUPD-
Director C. II. Purcell of the state
department of public works has
awarded a $l58,31020 contract to
Basich Bros. Construction Co. of
Alhambra to grade and surface SO
miles Of highway between l street in
Chula Vista and South II I b o +
Drive at Seventh in National City,
San Diego county.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
ChennouIt Bombs
Lost AirfieEd

HEADQUARTERS. l4th Air
Force, China, Sept. 10. CUP)-Blast-
ed runways and destroyed build
ings were all that remained Mon
day of the great Kweiling air base,
abandoned by the Fourteenth air
force in the face of two converg-
ing japanese columns in Chinas
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
Time. Grows Short
To Register for
Nov. I Election
Only nine mere days to register


AN average Of Is persons a day
check up on their registration status
in Imperial county" County Clerk
w. j. McClelland said Monday, but
that is not q sufficient number to
get the task done before the dead
line September 20
A steady run Of voters straight
ened out their registrations in re-
cent weeks but due to the unusual
number of newcomers and changes
of address, McClelland said, it is
impossible to estimate what the
registration is at this time.
Anyone interested may register at
any city hall in Imperial county or
at the county clerks office in the
court house in Ell Centro.
A total of 80 registration books,
containing 2l5G registration blanks,
are scattered over the county. They
are in the city halls, grocery stores,
public buildings, in stores, and in
the possession of organizations and
individuals interested in getting I'm
perial county's registration total
where it should be. McClelland
places each book in charge CT some
one held responsible for getting reg
istrations and returning the COM
pleted forms TO the clerks office SC
the great register of the county will
include the names of all persons
eligible to vote.
The French Canadians, 100000
strong. constitute nearly one-third
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
SPECIAL DELIVERY RATE
ON LETTERS is BOOSTED

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. CUP)-
President Roosevelt has signed a
bill increasing the special delivery
nail rate to 13 cents, decreasing
postal insurance rates and revising
present COLLECTION delivery postal
charges. The changes will become
effective November |.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19

EDITORS NOTE: The fOiiOwing edit
OridiS are presented as interesting 0pin-
ions r0iced by editors elsewhere. They
do not necessarily reflect the opinion Of
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
New 1axins Plan
Hits EoIIQcieS

tax things with a broader tax on
individuals, but at generally lower
rates all along the line. Then every
taxpayer would know how much
taxes he was paying. Other Of its
specific recommendation will be
discussed in following articles in
this series.
Next: Taxes and GChs.D
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
TO HONOR :. F. CLERIC

VATICAN CITY, Sept. 19. (UP)--
Authoritative Vatican quarters un-
derstood Monday that Pope Plus
plans consistory in November at
which three OF four Americans will
be raised to cardinals.
Reliable quarters said the list of
likely American candidates included
Archbishop Jchn j. NIFTY of San
Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
NEW DEVICE AIDS MINING

A blasting cartridge, with the dy-
Mantle surrounded by cylindrical
cushion of balsaWood pulp in an
adhesive pnder, lessons shock CT eX-
plosions TO coal seams, bringing
down coal in larger Jumps.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19

India's population figures have
shown an increase OF 10 per cent
in 10 years; her total population
is now 360 100000.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19

Editors nOte-Here is the sec
ond of five articles by Beardsley
Ruml OF the committee for eco
nomic development giving his or
ganizatiOn's views on a postwar
tax program for the United
States,
BY BEARDSLEY RUML
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19

We are winning the war but the needs
of our soldiers, sailors and marines are
as great as ever. To supply the demands
for the weapons and materials of war
calls for continued production so that
the battles may end and lives be spared
President Roosevelt.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
SERVED CZECH PAPERS

Benes recalled that before Mum
ich the United Press had served
newspapers in his country. Baillie
told him that six CzechosloVak.
newspapers had been served by UP
but that the papers lost this source
Of unbiased news once the Germans
occupied the country because the
UP was then prohibited by the
Nazis from serving any CzechoSlo-
vak publications and tkey were
forced to rely exclusively on the
1fficial German agency DNB. This
was one of the first acts of Hitler's
occupying government.
Benes agreed with the UP presl-
dents statement that war OF ideas
and ideals is being fought and that
people to govern themselves prop
erly must have the widest possible
access tc honest and factual news
as one important safeguard against
a repetition of the present war.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
CURRENT QUOTATIONS

No business, not even the business Of
the great Government Of the United
States, can long pursue a continued poll
cy Of spending more than it collects
Rep Robert L. Doughton CD Of North
Carolina, chairman Ways and Means
Committee
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
Benes BIames
Gagged Press
For kazi Acts

LONDON, Sept. 10. (UP)-Czecho-
Slovakia fell to the Nazis because it
lacked a free press and the free eX-
change of news with other nations,
President Edward Benes of that
country told Hugh Baillie, president
of the United Press, during As
Ininute conversation here.
Baillie asked Benes whether
Czechoslovakia, when liberated,
would restore freedom of the press
and free speech.
Definitely and positively" the
CZechoSloVak president replied. MY
country will be 4 leader among ma
tionS insisting On free press and
radio to keep the people informed
about events inside and outside
their own country
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19
RECALLS FALL

REC1LLS L ALL
Recalling the days preceding
Munich when Czechoslovakia was
being taken over by the Germans,
BeneS said:
Europe and many other parts
of the world suffered greatly when
propaganda was substituted for
facts and the people were denied
the truth. Free people must have
an independent press, they must be
kept informed honestly and fear
leSSly.
"Nazi propaganda played large
part in Hitler's rise TO lower and
his subsequent campaigns OF terror
and conquest"
Baillie asked Benes how well he
thought the news Of the Munich
crisis was handled.
The facts of that situation were
frankly aud honestly presented in
the United States which received
the fullest information" Benes
said.
Baillie explained how American
news agencies. in search CT the
ruth, gathered factual information
and said the press and radio IN
America presented both sides OF
neWSWorthy situations.
He outlined the United Press 81
year-old policy of sending indie
pendent correspondents to the
source of the news worldwide rath-
er than relying Cn the reports ol
foreign agencies.
He told Benes that as early as
1912 when it was first invited, the
United Press had declined to join
lnv international news cartelS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-09-19

The French Canadians, 100000
strong, constitute nearly one-third
of the Dominion of Canada's total
population.
Evening star., 1944-02-06

There Is . curse in your purse
and . wallop in your wallet. Let
the Axis have it-through an extra
bond.
Evening star., 1944-02-06

struggled desperately to enlarge
their toe-hold in the town itself
Allied advances north and south OF
the town threatened to outflank the
Nazis entrenched there.
American forces flung the Ger
mans out of most of their positions
on Mount Maiola. Desperate fight
ing engulfed the entire area. Many
positions in the outskirts of Casino
changed hands several times.
AS the fighting reached yet new
heights Of fury the Germans sue
ceeded in getting more big self pro
PEELED guns. tanks and six-barreled
mortars into the city and every
house constituted fortress.
Street fighting is the hardest OF
all combat and the odds are on the
defenders" said an Allied head
quarters spokesman, "the attackers
must have the highest tenactiy to
overcome enemy resistance"
British Take Mt. Ornito.
British troops fighting on the west
bank of the Garigliano captured
2,300-foot Mt. Ornito, three miles
northeast of Castelforte.
On the 9th Army front German
patrol was ambushed north of Cree
chic, some five miles east of Orsogna
and German sabotage patrol OF an
officer and five men was captured
intact while trying to blow up a
bridge in Allied territory near Casoli.
Carroceto, scene of the heaviest
beachhead fighting. Is 10 miles due
Evening star., 1944-02-06
King Victor Doomed.
|Ex-ltalian Deputy
Tells Officials Here
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Gaetano Salvemini, former Ital-
ian deputy, said yesterday King
Victor Emmanuel Is doomed and the
main problem in Italy Is clash
between the Badoglio clique OF gen.
erals and civilian political groups.
Mr.. Salvemini, who left italy in
1925 and long has been an out
spoken anti-Fascist, is now a Har-
ward University professor.
He told group Of newspapermen
and Government ofncials at a
luncheon at the Statler Hotel that
he believes the King has been writ
ten OF by Washington and London
lpolicymakers, and that all of Italy
Is almost unanimously convinced
the King must abdicate.
However, Mr.. Salvemini declared
Gen. Pietro Badoglio and the army
chieftains about him are no more
popular In Italy than the King. He
predicted that, left unrestrained,
they would attempt to spawn a new
regime Of Fascism. -s
Mr.. Salvemini criticized the Al
lies for failing to make clear to
Italians that they can junk not
only the King but the whole mon
archy If they have a mind to. Mus
solinis puppet government has been
very clever, he said, in repudiating
the monarchy and thus attempting
to appeal to the strongly republican
feeling he declared exists in North.
ern and Central Italy.
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Mrs. Maury Maverick
Finds Burglar in Home

A burglar last night entered tn,
home OF Maury Maverick, at 182s
Jefferson place NV, and escapec
by jumping from the window OF 8
second-floor bedroom after being
surprised by Mrs. Maverick.
Mrs. Maverick said the thief tool
only a pair of cheap" earrings be.
longing to her daughter, Terrelita
who Is away at school, and some
Mexican and Canadian currency.
Previously someone had entered
the home of Felian Garzia, q con.
cert pianist, at 1881 Jefferson place
and taken a camera.
Mrs. Maverick said the thief rar
from her room as she opened the
door and that he entered her daugh-
ters room, closing the door. When
she followed, the man jumped out
Of the window onto a porch, leaped
to the ground and vaulted over
an iron picket fence in the rear.
Mr.. Maverick is in New York on
business. He is a former member
OF the House now serving as vice
chairman Of the War Production
Board in charge of Smaller Wal
Plants Corp.
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Stuff Assistance Corps
To Hear Two Leaders

Mrs. Richard Bissell, who re-
Gently succeeded Mrs. Dwight Davis
as National Director Of Volunteer
Social Services Of the American Red
Cross, and Mrs. Wilmarth Lewis,
National Director of the Staff As
sistance Corps, will speak at Staff
Assistants Corps meeting at IL am.
Tuesday in the auditorium of the
Department Of Interior, Eighteenth
and c streets NV.
Mrs. George A. Garrett, District
chairman Of the Volunteer Special
Services, said a special invitation
has been extended TO members of
the surgical dressing units, mem
bers of which have not received
notice Of the meeting.
Evening star., 1944-02-06
FBI Agent to Address
PTA on Delinquency

j. B. Boone, Federal Bureau Of
Investigation agent, will speak on
juvenile delinquency at the Febru-
ary meeting Of the Nativity PARENT
Teacher Association at $3.50 pm.
Friday in the school auditorium,
5000 Georgia avenue NV.
The remainder Of the program
will be of social nature, and school
alumni and parents from other sec
tions Of the city interested in the
delinquency problem are invited.
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Italy
Continued From First Page.)

the Toulon naval base and rail.
ways near Cannes. They ran into q
furious Commute battle with &c
German fighters, some using rock
cts. Three of the enemy were de-
stroyed. One Fortress collided with
an enemy plane and fell in flames
In their determined effort to pinch
of the Allied beachhead before the
bulk of 1t. Gen. Mark w. Clark's
army could come to it's assistance
the Germans flung in one of their
best armored divisions in Italy
the 26th PanZer-and also concen-
trated large numbers of infantry for
the defense of ridges dominating
rail and highway routes south of
the Eternal City.
CThe German high command
communique claimed Allied bat
talions had been encircled and
then compressed" in the beach,
head, while Allied attacks north
Of Carroceto had failed)
The Allied communique made no
mention OF any Allied attack in
this area, but said German coun-
terthrusts were repulsed.
Threaten to Outflank Germans.
On the outskirts of Casino anti
tank guns and tanks slugged away
at each other and the Americans
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Ted Schroeder, Tennis Ace,
Marries Ann De Windt

By the Associated Press.
GREAT HARRINGTON, Mass.
Feb. 5-Miss Ann De Windt
daughter of Headmaster and Mrs
Delano De Windt of the Berkshire
School and Ensign Frederick r
Ted" Schroeder, jr, U. S. N. R.,
1912 national singles and doubles
tennis champion, were married to-
day at st. James Episcopal Church
The Rev. E. C. M. Power per-
formed the ceremony.
Ensign Schroeder, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick Schroeder of Glen
dale, Calf, was graduated from
Stanford University in 1941, COM
missioned last January and reports
Thursday for naval air training al
Dallas, Tex.
His bride was graduated from the
Emma Willard School, Troy, N. Y.
and the Katherine Gibbs School
Boston.
Evening star., 1944-02-06

the Canol project. An investigation
of the deal by the Truman commit
tee resulted in present efforts of
the Army to obtain an improved
contract
The Persian Gulf agreement pro-
vides that the companies will not
sell oil to any government when,
in the opinion Of the State Depart
ment, such sales would run counter
to United States foreign policy.
The agreement, Mr.. 1ckes said,
has the approval of Mr.. Roosevelt
and the State Department.
The Secretary expressed hope the
announcement would quiet any fears
that the Government was going into
the oil business in competition with
private industry.
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Soldier Hit-Run Victim

Pvt. Jack Peck, %, stationed at
Fort Myer, Va, suffered fractured
right leg late last night when he was
struck by hit-run driver at Thirty
fifth and M streets NV. The SOL
dier was treated for lacerations at
Emergency Hospital and then moved
to Walter Reed Hospital.
Evening star., 1944-02-06

north of Anzio and miles north
west of Padiglione. 1t is also known
as Aprilia and is one of the model
towns of the Fascist agricultural
development of the Pontine Marshes
Allied headquarters announced
that German prisoners taken since
the invasion Of Italy started last
September 3 totaled more than
10000. Since the beachhead land
ings two weeks ago $500 prisoners
have been captured, 80 of them yes
terday,
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Pipe Line
Continued From First Page.

with arrangements made with the
Imperial Oil Co. and the Canadian
government in connection with the
Army's Canol oil project in North
west Canada. In the Canol con-
tract, the Government received no
postwar benefits from the $780,
100000 expense of the project. The
size of the reserve set aside for the
Government in Arabia is about 10
times the most optimistic estimates
of the size of the Canadian field.
Mr.. Ickes was sharply critical of
Evening star., 1944-02-06
Gen. Fleming to Speok

Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, Fed
eral Works administrator, will be
guest speaker at dinner meeting
OF the Washington Society, Massa-
chusetts Institute Of Technology, at
6:15 pm. Thursday at Barker Hall
Seventeenth and K streets NV.
Bradley beam., 1944-02-19
FINANCE FLASHES
By PVT. IRA ASKIN

thanks to the editor of this journal for his frequent and timely aid. Not only does he edit the column, but he also finds time to write a few words to add to it. And no small part of his additions are the car toons with which he so attractive ly dresses up the column. Thanks, Bob.
 In the interests of public safety, we give fair warning to Will Har- rington. Beware of that good look ing gal that works behind you in your section.
 That greeting received by Frank Michaelson, Monday, contained a good question. Well, Ole, what are you waiting for?
Bradley beam., 1944-02-19

It is seldom we like to use as trite an expression as, "She is as smart as she is pretty" but since the object of our expression is Cpl, Beatrice McCuistion and the words fit her to a T, "We dood it."
 Beatrice halls from the "Sooner" State, Oklahoma, which derived it's name because early settlers got there, "too early with too much" <" However, "B" didn't stay in her home town of Duke, Oklahoma, very long. After completing High School she attended West Texas State College at Canyon, Texas, where she studied primary educa- tion and received a B.S. degree. Upon completing college she taught in Texas elementary schools and when war production became vital necessity, obtained a position as expeditor for the final assembly of B-17s at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Long Beach, California.
 Exactly one year after Pearl liar bor, 7 December 1942, Cpl. McCuis- tion gave in to he rambition to serve more directly for her country and enlisted in the WAC. Beatrice