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Evening star., 1944-03-18
Tuxes
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GENTLY large to come under the
present income levies, would become
regular income taxpayers, paying
rates about equivalent to their pres
ent Victory tax burdens. o..
4. There would be revisions Of
normal and surtax and exemptions
provisions. =
5. OF the 10000, 900 who still must
file returns, it Is estimated that
100000 would use a simple tax
table which will show their entire
tax, and the remaining 10000 900
would fill out returns in more de-
tail, but would be provided a simpler
return than the present long form.
II any taxpayer in the class under
$4,000 wishes to claim larger deduc.
tions than those computed under
the withholding schedule, he may
file a return each March is, as he
now does, and pay the same tax as
he is liable for under the current
statutes.
6. All taxpayers with incomes up
to $4,000 will be entitled to a
standard deduction allowance of 10
per cent of income. For those with
incomes above $1,000, the standard
deduction allowance will be $500.
Taxpayers whose actual deductions
exceed the standard allowance may
secure the benefit of their actual de.
ductions by listing them in detail. :
7. A new simplifled tax table will
be provided for the use of taxpayers
with incomes below 5000, regards
less Of the source Of their incomes.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
House Group Shelves
Palestine Resolution

from Yesterdays Last Edition.
BY The Associated Press. e
The House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, acting on the advice Of mill
tary authorities, today. shelved {
resolution which would have pu
Congress on record as disagreeinf
with Britain about the future o,
Palestine.
The resolution called on thu
lawmakers to urge free migration
of Jews into Palestine and estab.
ishment of a Jewish commonwealth
there.
Such action would have been 9
declaration against the so-calleG
British White Paper" under which
the migration of Jews to Palestine
will be kept under strict quota limi-
tations after the end of this month
Senate Foreign Relations commit
teemen said recently they had been
asked by the United States high
command to postpone action on the
Palestine matter-on which resolu-
tions were introduced in both
chambers for military reasons.
Chairman Bloom Of the House
Committee said his group made it:
decision to table the resolution after
receiving letter from Secretary OF
War Stimson.
Mr.. Bloom issued this statement:
Advice and information given te
us by those responsible for the con-
duct Of the war, have convinced the
committee that action upon the
resolution at this time would be
unwise."
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Liquor License Denied
Allied Social Club

The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board yesterday denied an applica-
ton for liquor license to the
United Nations Social Club at 1882
Eighteenth street NV, next to the
home Of the Rev. DR.. Walter H.
Brooks. pastor of the Nineteenth
Street Baptist Church.
Backed by prominent ministers
here, DR.. and Mrs Brooks protested
the granting of a license to the
club. The board sustained the OBJ
lection on the ground that it was
an inappropriate place. consider
ing the character of the premises.
Under the ABC code a license
may not be issued If it is "inap-
propriate, considering the charac-
ter Of the premises, its surround
ings and the wishes Of the persons
residing or owning property in the
neighborhood OF the premises 70,
which 1t is desired"
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Toxic 10 Shift Tax Burden
OF War 10 WORKING Class
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 1s.-The Toxic
radio said today the Japanese gov
ernment had announced its inten-
ton Of shifting more and more
Of the financial burden Of the war on
the working classes and quoted the
announcement as declaring "it can
not be helped if the distribution OF
the burden is not just"
The broadcast, recorded by United
States Government monitors, said
that "in order to counteract the rise
In the income Of the masses, particu-
larly the laboring classes, heavier
taxation is inevitable and that ten
dency will become more and more
marked"
1T is necessary to take a moderate
course In assessing corporations, the
broadcast added. Various types Of
tax reductions should be made in
order to encourage industries and
increase war strength"
The radio also said the Japanese
Diet would meet in Toxic for three
days OF plenary sessions March a.
% and "A.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Widow Receives Control
Of White S Emporia Gazette
By the Associated press.

By the Associated Press.
EMPORIA, Kans., Mar. 18.-Wil-
liam Allen White, noted editor, be-
queathed his half interest in the
Emporia Gazette, daily newspaper
to his widow, Salle L. White. He
died last January 20.
The will, filed in Probate Court
yesterday, disclosed that Mrs. White
already had a fourth interest in
the Gazetts and their son, w. l.
White, author and war correspond
ent, the other fourth. Mrs. White
owned half the Gazette Building
and the will left her the other half
The editor bequeathed $1,000 each
to IA employees Of the Gazette with
20 years service.
To the son was left farm, which
William Allen White said, was given
to me by my father"
Real and personal property were
listed in Probate Court at a value
of $68,505. An additional $65 900 in
insurance is payable to Mrs. White
who was made executrix of the will
drawn December 30, 1899.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Examples of New Tax Bill
Two Cases Worked Out to Show
levies Proposed in Revised Law

Thus his tax Is increased about a
dollar.
A married person with one child
making $4,000, would have an ex-
emption of $500 (three times $500
plus $500 90 per cent of $4,000
leaving his income subject to surtax
at $4,000. The new surtax rate is 20
per cent of the first $4,000 of taxable
income, or $400, and % per cent Of
the next $4,000, which in the case
OF this person would be % per cent
of $4,000 or $220-making his total
surtax $500.
His normal tax would be per
cent Of income exceeding $500 after
deducting 10 per cent Of his income,
or $500. This would be per cent
of $4,000, or $120.
Thus his total tax would be $740.
A married person with two chill
dren, making $4,000, would have an
exemption of $4,000 four times
$500 plus $3.50 90 per cent of
81, 500, leaving his income subject
to surtax at $3.50. The surtax GO
per cent of the first $4,000 of taxable
income) would be $50. His normal
tax would be per cent Of income
exceeding $500 after deducting 10
per cent Of his income, and would
amount to $52.50. His total tax
would be that sum plus the $50 sur
tax, or $10250.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Severance Pay Urged
For War Workers
Ey the Associated Press.

50 IHe AsSOCldLeQ tteSS.
A Senate Military Affairs Sub
committee, polishing the final draft
of broad industrial rehabilitation
bill, studied an amendment yester-
day which would authorize dismissal
pay for war plant workers who lose
their jobs through the termination
Of Government contracts.
In its tentative form, the amend
ment would provide for severance
payments up to one weeks pay for
each six months of employment
with a maximum of six weeks pay
or 5000, whichever is the smaller.
The bill, introduced by Senators
George, of Georgia and Murray. of
Montana, Democrats, is patterned
generally on postwar reconversion
recommendations made by Bernard
M. Baruch. 1t would establish an
ONCE of War Demobilization, head
ed by a SIS, ,000-a-year director ap-
pointed by the President, with gen.
eral authority to supervise termina-
ton OF war contracts, disposition
of surplus Government goods, re-
tanning and unemployment and
emergency financing.
Public hearings by the full COM
mlttee will begin in April.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Labor Draft 10 End Waste
Urged by Mrs. Meyer
By the Associated Press,


NEW YORK, Mar. 18.-Mrs. Eu.
gene Meyer, wife of the publisher Of
the Washington Post, says she
studied conditions in war plants
over the United States last year and
learned production was being cara
ried on with a wastage Of man
power and resources sufficient to
run all the factories in Britain. +"
I'm the new war industries We
have not mass production but mob
production" Mrs. Meyer told the
New York Times American Homes
forum yesterday. Instead of boast.
ing about our production figures, we
should face the facts that they could
be about IS per cent higher If we
had the moral stamina to pass a
National Service Act" :
Asserting "the American woman
is not meeting her responsibilities
in the war effort, Mrs. Meyer added:
Il could name city after city
where the middle-class women are
sitting at home, not only obliviouS
but indifferent and even antagonisI
tic to these pathetic immigrant
families in overpopulated war
plant centers) and their deplorable
state"
Evening star., 1944-03-18
D. {. Seaman Recovering
After Fall on DESTROYER

CHARLESTON, S. C.-Seaman
(First Glass; Ralph Powell Drum.
heller, 81, of 5754 Colorado avenue
NV. and Falls Church, Va, is re-
covering here from an injury suf.
fered when he fell from ladder
while on duty aboard a destroyer ir
the Mediterranean combat zones.
Seaman Drumheller is a veteran
|of the Sicilian invasion and of &C.
ton throughout the Mediterranean
He wears the American Theater rib.
bon and the European-Africa-Mid.
die East campaign ribbon
His ship was commended and
did patrol OF Gela and Licata, back.
ing up the men who could be seer
fighting in the hills. Later at Pa.
lermo the ship underwent air raids
She sent salvoes into the shore area
and shelled German planes diving
at her tunnels and strafing the har.
Dor area.
Seaman Drumheller was a clerk ir
the Farm Credit Administration be.
fore enlisting in November, 1912. He
lis the son of Mr. and Mrs. Powell
lDrumheller and a brother of Sea.
man (First Class Glenn Drum.
heller, 10, on duty aboard a destroyer
escort with the Pacific Fleet.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Foisie Is Army's Hot Potato
After Revealing 23-PIune Loss

Mr.. Pyle wrote q column about
him In the January 10 issue of Stars
and Stripes. Before joining the
staf1 last July, Sergt. Foisie had
fought with tank destroyer unit in
the Tunisian campaign. When he
became q correspondent he was pro-
NOTED to sergeant, but had to be
ordered" to wear his stripes.
Six or eight times before his last
promotion, Mr.. Pyle wrote, Sergt
Foisie had gone ''up and down ir
rank, due largely to the whim oi
various commanders" But he is re.
garded as good soldier and manned
a half-track and q machine gun ir
some Of the hottest fighting ir
North Africa.
Former San Francisco Reporter
Sergt. Foisie, who is "A years old
has been resting up in his home
town Of Berkeley, Calf. A former
reporter on the San Francisco
Chronicle, he was with the first
troops to land in Sicily. His father
Frank P. Foisie, is head of the
Waterfront Employers Of the Pacific
Coast.
Sergt. Foisie has q girl, Of course
like almost every &c. l."
Her name is Florence McTighe
and she lives In Trenton, N. j." the
Stars and Stripes said.
Meanwhile. the Army is prodding
into the facts concerned with Sergt
Foisie's revelation of the Sicilian
incident. Whether the facts would
ever have been made public but for
his disclosure of the closely-guarded
secret, no one knows. Another mat
ter, which may be hushed up, is
whether the young soldier is to re-
join the Stars and Stripes overseas
or his former tank DESTROYER unit.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Check Shows Ford Co.
Fired 80, Suspended Is
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, Mar. ia recapitu-
lation OF disciplinary action taken
against employees accused of par
ticipating in two recent disturbances
at the Ford Moto rCo.'s River
Rouge aircraft engine plant showed
today that 30 workers had been dis
charged, another 30 indefinitely sus-
pended and As suspended until Mon
day.
A demonstration March 7, in
which property in the labor rela-
tions office was destroyed, and q
road blockade this week at the plant
gates were Jumped into a single
case, which a Ford spokesman said
now could be considered closed.
President r. J. Thomas of the
United Automobile Workers, CIO,
has announced that the unions DO
sitlon would be made known as soon
as all the disciplinary action has
been reviewed.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Navy Officer on Cycle
Hurt in Crash With Auto

1t. q. g. Robert Tingley, %, OF
4607 Connecticut avenue NV, sta
toned at the Bureau Of Aeronautics
suffered a fractured left leg and
wrist today when the motorcycle he
was riding was in collision with an
automobile.
Police said 1t. Tingley was pro-
ceeding north on Connecticut ave-
nue. when struck by a southbound
automobile driven by Robert M.
Willis, 48, Friendship, Md. Willis
was charged with driving on the
wrong side of the street and posted
500 bond for his appearance in
Municipal Court Monday.
1t. Tingley was taken to the Med
ical Center at Bethesda.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
BY NELSON SHEPARD.

More embarrassing to Pentagon
officials, perhaps, than to the al
legged culprit is the case Of Sergt
Jack Foisie, correspondent of the
Stars and Stripes, Army newspaper
who Spilled the secret about q
American transport planes being
shot down by Nazi and American
guns in the sicilian campaign last
July 10.
THAT guy, Foisie, is q hot pota-
to-" one ofi1cial admitted ruefully
today. The Army had reasons OF
its own for withholding the news ot
the loss Of the 40 paratroopers and
doesn't relish the publicity given 1t.
OF course, 1t was said, the usual
investigation Is under way. With
news sources tight-hpped, uncon-
frmed reports indicate the point OF
the inquiry is whether Sergt. Foisie
pulled "fast one" on the censors In
his San Francisco address Wednes-
day or whether he disclosed the in
formation with the permission Of q
none-too-alert public relations Of
ficer.
Foisie . Colorful Character.
Sergt. F'oisie seems to be a colorful
character from all accounts. War
correspondents who met him over
seas say he isn't the kind to worry
over being "busted" in rank-and
few believe that is liable to happen
to him. OF If he is told to go
back as a combat soldier, they say
he wouldn't mind that either.
Two of his newspaper friends are
Mark Watson of the Baltimore Sun
and Ernie Pyle, Washington war
correspondent and columnist. They
are agreed he is the star combat
reporter Of the Army newspaper.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
|Wreckage Of Utah Bomber
Lost Since Jan. 26 Found

By the Associated Press.
WENDOVER FIELD, Utah, Mar
l8.-The wreckage Of a heavy bomb
er from the Wendover base, missing
since January 26 with six men
aboard, has been found in the Ne
vada mountain ranges northwest OF
here.
Searching parties reached the
wreckage yesterday, reporting that
all crew members apparently died
instantly. Snow had hidden the
wreckage during the intensive search
earlier this year.
The dead included Staff Sergt.
James A. Bassett, Campbell, N. Y;
Staff Sergt. Robert K. Christensen,
Estherville, Iowa, and Sergt. Jack J.
Schoenfelt, Toledo. Ohio.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
oo7 New Measles Cases
Reported in Baltimore
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Mar. 18-A measles
epidemic In Baltimore, with 997 new
cases reported this week, was dis
closed yesterday by DR.. J. Wilfred
Davis, head of the Bureau of Com
municable Diseases of the Health
Department.
A total of 1853 cases have been
reported since the first of the year
and the number listed this week in
creased 109 over last week. There
have been 10 deaths from measles
since January and two this week.
Another mortality occurred from
pneumonia which followed measles.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Dies Agrees 10 Reply
To Winche|| Attacks
On Radio March Is
By the Associated Press.


Chairman Dies of the House
Committee on Un- American Ac-
tivities today accepted an invita-
ton to follow Walter Winchell on
the radio the night of March 26.
In announcing his acceptance, the
Texan loosed a new blast in his
feud with the columnist and COM
mentator, limiting that he might
return the compliment by inviting
Mr.. Winchell to be a guest of his
committee-under subpoena.
Il am accepting the offer Of the
Jergens Co., Mr.. Winchell's sponsor,
and of the Blue Network, which
broadcasts his programs, to follow
him on Sunday night, March 26, to
answer false and misleading state
ments he has heretofore made about
me-" Mr.. Dies said.
No "Blues" in Speech.
The Texan said he assumed he
would take the place Of the Basin
Street Blues" program that usually
follows Mr.. Winchell, but he en-
phasized that there would be no
blues" in his 15-minute speech.
The Jergens Co.'S advertising
agency, Lennn g. Mitchell, Inc,
and the Blue Network invited Mr..
Dies to answer Mr.. Winchell after
the Texan announced yesterday he
had issued subpoena on Mark
Woods, Blue Network president, for
all scripts and recordings from Mr..
Winchell's programs for the last two
years.
The material is needed, Mr.. Dies
said, in the committees investi-
CATION of what he called "a planned
campaign to smear Congress by mis-
statements and innuendo."
Mr.. Woods announced In New
York that he would be pleased to
cooperate completely" in the inves-
tigation and notified Mr.. Dies he
would grant him the radio time
following Mr.. Winchell because
that period will give you the bene-
Mt OF the entire Winchell audience" !"
The Winchell program is regularly
broadcast from 9 to 9:l5 pm,
Charges False Statements
my time" Mr.. Dies said, will be
devoted to answering false state
ments and innuendoes heretofore
made by Winchell. do not dispute
his right to criticize me, but intend
to prove that many of his statements
about me and the committee were
false and untrue"
Mr.. Dies said he had requested
the Blue Network last December to
give him radio time to answer Mr..
Winchell, but was refused.
He commended newspapers "for
an honest effort In most cases to
present both sides in a controversy
and to permit the party criticized
to make an answer in the same
columns" but added that "unfor-
tunately this isn't always true of the
radio commentators"
Asked If he intended to call Mr..
Winchell before the committee, Mr..
Dies said: He will probably get a
chance to come before the commit
tee, but he won't be permitted to
turn it into a publicity stunt"
Mr.. Winchell said in Miami Beach
last night that he had repeatedly
asked to be called before the COM
mittee but "theV don't want mo"
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Firms Cling to Hope
OF Further Negotiation

HELSINKI, Mar. 1s (R.-Finnish
political quarters today still clune
to the hope-admittedly very faint
Of rescuing the peace negotiations
with Russia, despite general pessi-
mism here following Parliament s
action Wednesday.
Recognizing that time is running
out fast, these sources said Finland
still wants to negotiate an armistice,
but at the same time felt she ought
to have an opportunity to get a
more precise idea of the terms be-
fore going to the Kremlin.
These quarters said it is quite
likely that this is the essence Of Fin
lands new reply to Moscow, which
repeatedly has now been delivered.
CA Stockholm dispatch said
yesterday the answer was de-
livered at the Russian Legation
in Stockholm. The Finnish Par
lament previously was reported
without confirmation, to have
fatty rejected Russia's peace
terms by 160-40 vote on
Wednesday,
In her first note to Moscow Fin
land asked for more detailed infor-
nation on Russias six armistice
conditions, especially the one regard
ing the internment of the German
troops now in Finland. One high
Finnish source said acceptance Of
the terms as they stood now would
be like entering blind alley with
out knowing what is going to leap
cut from doorways.
What attitude Moscow will take
toward Finland's newest response
18 words censored) is awaited here
anXiously. An official communique
on the governments position is ex-
pected Saturday evening (eight
words censored.
In the first Finnish editorial COM
ment on the appeals of President
Roosevelt and King Gustav Of Swe-
den for Finland to get out of the
war the newspaper Sanomat said:
'The making of peace does not
depend on the country which is
weaker, but on the one which can
dictate the terms. We can only wish
that these appeals had also been
addressed to the party which wanted
to dictate the peace (meaning Rus
sia)
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Court Approves Test
Of Lonergon's Sanity
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 18.-Counsel for
Wayne Lonergan obtained a court
order yesterday permitting exami-
nation of the 27-year- old RCAF air.
craftman by a psychiatrist.
Lonergan is scheduled to 60 on
trial again Monday on charges of
killing his heiress wife, Patricia
Burton Lonergan, in their FASH
lonable apartment last October "a.
His attorney, Edward Broderick,
who obtained the court order from
General Sessions Judge James Gar
rett Wallace, said the examination
would be conducted by Dr. Thomas
S. Crusack, who was an expert wit
ness in the Ruth Snyder-Judd Gray
and Nancy Titterton murder trials.
On learning of the defense move,
Assistant Attorney Jacob Grumet,
prosecutor in the case, said the
State also might select a pSychia-
trlst to examine the defendant.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
japanese Victory
Impossible, Soviet
Magazine Declares
BY the Associated Press.

| 6s the Associated PleSS.
MOSCOW, Mar. 18.-The Soviet
trade union journal War and the
Working Class-in Its frankest
boldest discussion of the japanese
war situation-says Japanese vic
tory is impossible" and predicts the
Japanese fleet will not dare begin
active operations any more"
The magazine, dated March Is but
only out yesterday, said in an article
by Evgenie Zhukov that "the spirit
of the Japanese people is sinking
and declared great alarm has been
caused in the country by an Of
flcial declaration on the monthly
plane production rate of the United
States.
Explaining that only a few people
in Japan believe announcements of
any victoay any more, the magazine
said:
Optimistic declarations of her
(the Japanese) Ministers are in d.
rect contradiction with real facts.
The ruling circles seek to conceal
the lack of successes of the Japa-
nese armed forces on almost all
fronts. 1t Is apparent now that Ja-
pans plan to infiict a blow upon
Burma has failed.
"The Japanese fleet will not dare
begin active operations any more.
The British and Americans enjoy
unchallenged superiority on a num-
ber Of sectors of the front. The
Japanese citizen, accustomed to
trumpets of victory, is confused. He
cannot understand what has hap
pened to the 'despised British and
the unwarlike nation America"
Orders to evacuate Japanese cities
proved the alarm caused by the
announcement that the United
States will turn out over $500 planes
monthly while Japan cannot pro-
duce more than 1900 monthly, the
magazine said.
Evening star., 1944-03-18

Miss Armstrong told reporters
that she was married last July to
Peter F. Geusic, a soldier now in
Italy. She said she had never lived
with him and is planning to file
suit for annulment She added that
her mother and sister object to her
plans to annul her marriage and
marry another man, whom she said
she met about month ago.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Soldiers Home Veteran
Robbed of Sl75 on Car

James B. Cant of the Soldiers
Hohe reported to police that a
pickpocket stole a wallet contain
ing SITS from him on a crowded
streetcar at Seventh street and
Florida avenue NV. last night. Mr.
Cant said he discovered his loss
after being jostled by an unidenti-
ned man who left the car at the
intersection.
Evening star., 1944-03-18
56,326 Freed by Spuin

MADRID, Mar. 18 (Py-The con-
ditional release of 56,326 political
prisoners since March l of last year
now leaves only $4,000 prisoners
charged with rebellion in Jail in
Spain, the Spanish press announced
YESTERDAY
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Test for AWVS Donors

Members OF the American Won.
ems Voluntary Services planning tc
offer blood to the Red Cross blooo
donor service are being offered ar
opportunity to take a hemoglobir
test in advance to determine suit
ability of their blood. The tests are
given by a registered nurse at
AWVS headquarters one night and
one day a week
Evening star., 1944-03-18
Sir David Proin Dies

LONDON, Mar. l8 tPy.-Sir David
Prain, famed botanist, died yester-
day. A native Of Scotland, he had
been Carnegie trustee for the Uni
versities of Scotland since 1917 and
an officer in numerous scientific
groups throughout the United King
dom,