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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-15

items. Many will have some:
 Travel expenses not reimbursed This does not mean daily travel between home and place of em- ployment When yo. do travel for your employer on business you can charge transportation fares, includ- ing the federal tax, or the cost of operating your own car; also hotel rooms, meals, tips and other usual and reasonable travel costs.
 Using your own car you can charge for gasoline oil, repair and replacement of tires, garage rental, repairs to the car, depreciatio non the cars cost at g per cent a year until it is four years old. If any otherwise -deductible taxes are included in any of these, charge them. If the automobile is used for both business and pleasure, allocate overall costs according to the pro- portion of each use.
 At home or travelling, you can deduct out-o pocket business (but never personaD expenses for tele- phone, telegraph, entertaining cuS- toners, newspapers, mazagineS and books whose business usefulness is only temporary, postage, stationery, typewriter ribbons, pencils, etc. artists materials, photographic sup plies, dues to professional societies in fact, for all expendable sup plies and materials and services necessary in earning your living
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CATCHING UP ON WORK FPC'S
 POSTWAR PLAN
BY COURTENAY MOORE United Press Staff COrreSpOndeI


 Washington, Jan. l5-(UP)-T'he Federal Power Commissions postwar planning consists of catching up on a backlog of work, necessarily neglected for pressing wartime du- tie.', which will take 'at least four or five years" after the war.
 Calvin Dold, executive assistant to the chairman of FPC, told the United Press that tha commission did not increase it's staff after the start of the war and was forced to divert a great many of it's per sonnel to war activities. Therefore, the commission has lots of "unfin- ished business" on it's agenda as soon as the opportunity presents itSelf-which will be after the war.
 To Set Prices of Plants
 One of the first items on the postwar list is the determination of the original costs of power and wa ter plants. Those companies licensed to the government have been asked to estimate their original costs so that if and when the government takes over the plants at the eXpira- tion of the license, the price will be fairly established at a pre-deter- mired rate Some of this work is be- ing carried on during the war. Dold said, and added that about 90 plants out of an approximate 300 in all, have already had original cost deter mination
 Another item on the future agenda is the determination of serv- ice areas for power plants. These areas will be set up after the war by FPC to define the places each plant may serve. Until these areas are set up, each plant must request hearing before the FPC in order to make any changes in their exist ing facilitieS-eVen to 100 feet Of pipeline. The service areas, when eS- tablished, will permit each plant to make any desired changes within it's own area without coming before the commission.
 The investigation of unlicensed wate4 projects is also on the com- missions postwar list. This work was started just before the war, and necessarily temporarily abandoned later However, the commission col- lected about $500,000 in revenue for the government in the first six months of its investigation.
 The law states that each power plant built on public waters under the jurisdiction of Congress or the Interstate Commerce Commission must have license from the FPC. And many plants, built before the FPC was established, failed to apply for licenses.
 Dold added that after the war the commission hoped to extend aid to states and municipalities in their power problems as it did before the war
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Conference Called Off

New York, Jan. 15-The Commis- sion on Evangelism and Devotional Life of the Congregational Christ ian Churches announces today that it has cancelled its Tenth Annual New England Study conference which was to have been held in the First Church of Christ, Congre- gational, Springfield, Massachusetts February 5 and 6. The commission decided that for patriotic reasons and in order to relieve pressure on railroads, hotels, and gasoline the usual conference should not be held
 Dr. w. c. Timmons, 39 Grove Hill, New Britani, Connecticut, Pas tor of the South Congregational church of New Britain, is chair man of the commission which Is asking the Congregational Christ ian ministers of the New England area to substitute small groups in their own neighborhoods for the general gathering. The commission is also submitting to these minis ters the program which had been planned for February 5 and 6 hop ing from it they may secure sug- gestions for their smaller group meetings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-15
BY $. BURTON HEATH

The miscellaneous group is the catch-all for deductions. Here you can charge off alimony or separation allowances; your share in the mort gage interest and real estate taxes on a cooperative residence( which could not be deducted at all before last year); the special flat $500 extra exemption for a blind person; the rental of a safe deposit box.
 Here also you write of losses from credits and loans that have proven uncollectable. These now are regarded as capital losses, and should be reported in a separate Schedule D to be procured from your Collectors office. They can be taken only in the year in which the Internal Revenue Bureau rules that they occurred. The wise thing is to begin claiming them as soon as you have reason to suspect that you can't collect; and If they are disallowed, repeat the claim year after year until either your creditor peys up or the deduction is allowed for tax purposes.
 In making such claims state clearly and simply what happened: You lent John Doe $100, or sold him your used car for $250 or baby carriage for $25. He never paid anything-or he has paid only so much and stopped-and now he refuses to pay more, or has died without leaving an eStatt to pay. or hoe moved and voll can't locate him to collect.
 When you have completed any miscellaneous deducationS and car ried their total into the righthand column, and the various sums in that Contributions, Inter- est, Taxes, Losses, Medical. M1Scel- laneous-and you will then have the Total Deductions" figure to enter on Line 2 of the Tax Computation Schedule at the bottom of Page 4. COMPUTE TAX
 Now you are ready to compute your tax. But that can be treated more urderstandably If an entire article is devoted to it. So in the remainder of todays space let's clear up the items of business ex- pense that were crowded out Of the fifth article.
 The following expenses, insofar as your employer did not reim- purse you, can be deducted from gross wage or salary (and should be taken there, in order to get full benefit out of the medical expense deduction). Few will have all of these
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Union dues are deductble business expense.
 DEPRECIATION
 Also. you are entitled to charge depreciation on the tools you pro- vide for your trade that are not quickly expendable-typewriter, of- flee furniture, photographic equip ment, long term reference books, carpenters or electricians or mas ons' or similar tools. This is too complicated for adequate discussion here. If your tools are expensive enough to warrant depreciati ting them, your collectors office can tell you rates and assist you with the computation.
 If you work at home, either in self-employnent or for efficiency, and if you provide there a shop or office or other working quarters that are set aside for income-pro- ducing work, you can charge the expenses for maintaining those quarters, just as though you had rented space outside.
 In that even your rental ex- penses should be computed in the manner described in the sixth ar |. ticle for determining the expenses of rente droom. First figure the expenses on your entir home; then divide by the number of rooms, and allocate the expenses of the portion usd to earn your living. Charge it against your gross wage or salary.
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Jesse ADLER Looks a1 the NEWS

Admiral Ingram's prediction that NY probably" would be Buzz-bom barded was retracted so rapidly by an official Navy statement, it'll take several months to determine wheth- CT the Admiral has the makings of 8 columnist or calamatist!
 Incidentally, in his column of Tuesday, January 9th, Walter Win chell devoted 20 per cent of his en- tire column retracting missing comma!
 Mayor LaGuardia released hun dreds of NY City prisoners to help clear the Bronx streets of snow. No escapes. But the remarkable oddity is that more than were released didn't return-what with free room and board, free of points.
 Talking of jailbirds, a convict in g Pennsylvania prison whose term is up, refuses to leave his "hOme". The warden says he may have to call the police to put him out.
 Add What to Give-LaG Guardia- for Xmas items (From Read Maga- lne): Kalamazoo Fire Chief Frank Van Alta has installed box which looks and sounds like fire-alarm box. He invites all those tempted to turn in a false alarm to have one on the house..
 One army medic still describes . 4F as a man between the ages of 18 and 38 who is physically quail flied excepting one minor ailment- RigOr Mortis Mild!
 By the time the draft boards get through re-and-re -and-re-examin- ing the nations 4F's, many who may not be 4F legitimately will be- the sweatingout process has that effect!
 A burglar caught by policeman George Wilson of Phoenix while cutting through window screen simply alibied: "I was just taking a screen test!"
 One friend we know describes the difference between bachelor and being a married man is the dif- ference between signing your name in pencil and in ink!
 Republican wags are kidding about EleanOr's auto license plate "HM4". They claim the initials stand for "Her Majesty.
 By the way the first of the Roose- velts with a Berlin address is Col. Elliot Roosevelt's new wife-who's making a picture titled Hotel Der lin".
 Because his name but not his photos have appeared so prOmi- nently in the newspapers, Holly wood Is calling Sewell (carry me out Joel Avery. . "One-Picture Star.
 Favorite Story of Week Guy: My girl is carrying the torch" 2nd Guy: "She must be nuts about you". NO. She's welder at Lock- heedH
 Add tc Description: Diplomacy: The knack of cutting somebody eIse's throat without revealing the weapOn!"
 Bruce Patterson tells about the bird who walked into a shoe store and asked for some alligator shoes. What size does your alligator wear?" the clerk inquired.
 Tn BerkIcy (CaD Q thief made tlAe
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WAVELETS
By BILL HARRINGTON

When the Ed Wynn show shifts to Monday nights at p. m. on WATR and the Blue network, effective to- night, the famous star will intro duce e new comedy character and adopt situation" format
 Concerning himself with the ad- ventures of an expert on every thing, the beloved veteran of radio, stage, and screen, will drop his King Bubbles from Happy Island role. For the past few broadcasts at his present time (Fridays at 7:0O) Wynn has been testing and shar- pening up his new format and the verdict of air and studio audiences has been unanimously in favor of the new idea.
 Minerva Pious, diminutive and talented comedienne. best remem- bered for her Mrs. NusSbaum char acterization from Fred Aliens AL ley, has joined Wynn'S cast. An- nouncing duties remain in Paul Douglas capable larnyx
 Cheryl Walker, the lovely movie star who rocketed to fame in the screen version of Stage Door Can- teen," will make a guest appear ance on the final broadcast of the current series of Heidt Time to- night at TOO p. m., over WATR and the Blue Network.
 Miss Walker will be heard in a comedy skit with maestro Horace Heidt whose orchestra is featured on the show.
 Vocalist Gene Walsh, the Sweet Swingsters and whistler Fred Low cry are featured artists with the bands crack personnel.
 Army convalescents are saluted by Bob Hawk when he sends them duffel bags filled with cigarettes during Thanks to the Yanks" over CBS tonight, at 7:30 p. m. The smokes go to the U S. Arnw Sta ton hospital, Camp Murphy, Hobie Sound, Fla and the U. s. Army Madigan General hospital. Ft. Lewis Washington. Spacing Hawks ques- tions on the program will be sing ing by Lynn Gardner and music by Peter Van Steedens orchestra.
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Good Evening.
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

Sunshine and roses Tonight we are happy to tender our Sncerest congratulations to MT and Mrs Andrew Laurenz of 92 Birch Street the occasion of
 their Silver Jubilee They were united in marriage in the Church of Our Lady of LourdeS January 15 l9zO They have five children Bernadno and Anthony ot Waterbury; Paul serving with the U. Navy in the South Pacific; Mrs. Frank Levegnale and Miss Eva Laurenz Our best wishes for many more years of mar ried life The spotlight now shifts to permit MISS Julia Smith of the State Theatre to bask in it's rays Miss Smith has awarded the Medal of Honor by the War Activities Committee of the motion picture industry The chairman of the State Committee in serving formal notification of the award states When the names of great Americans of industry written on the roll of honor yours will be well the top Hey that guy stole speech Congratulations Julia and may future years bring greater awards. It couldn't happen to more desc ving lady Another Waterburian is hon. ored in the person of Dr. Joseph Watts At the 74th annual meeting of the Bridgeport Medical Association pr. Watts native of this city chosen president
 Private Robert Bener of A River Street was one o the six servicemen chosen to participate Sunday in Ihe Connecticut Yankees at Camp Wheeler (Ga.) Program It is weekly Sunday morning broadcast in which youths from this state greet their relatives and friends
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WORLD WAR II A YEAR AGO
(By United PreSs)

(By United PreSS)
 British RAF follows up an Amer ican air attack on Brunswick (Germany), dropping nearly 100 tons of bombs a minute.
 In Russia, Soviet troops advance beyond MOzyr in the northern Pripet Marshes.
 In a broadcast, Under-Secretary of State, Edward Stettinius. de- cIares anything other than "cOn- tinuing and close cooperation" between Russia and the United States. now and after the war, would be nOhting less thna tragic bIundering for both"
 In New Guinea, Australian troops reach the outskirts of Sic.
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1945 INCOME TAX PRIMER
 Business Expenses May Be Deducted
Business

Here Is the nsntn sE 10 author itative, -tO-fOllOw articles telling the wage-earning taxpayer how to prepare his income tax re- turn. Readers should clip and save each instaIIment of the series.
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John Doe travels quite flat allowance of $15 his which explains business that he
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Robert Weede, the Metropolitan baritone, who came to Waterbury on very short notice last Tuesday night to give concert in place of the Nine O'Clock Opera which scheduled proved himself very agreeable He and his pianist scene shifters, and when Mr. Weede finished the first half of his pro- gram and found that far as it went Gin the printed fOrm) he announced his own numbers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-15

AJ1anJlc.
 The new boarder finally succeeds in getting Johnny Morgan a date, but love at first sight is not one of Johnny's revelations tonight. The cast of the Ballantine show will be heard from the Statler Hotel in Boston at 10:30 p. m. over the Col umbia network.
 Johnny will be joined by song stress Milena Miller; Pert Kelton as Mrs. Bickle; Gee Gee James, the houSekeeper; Cameron Andrews, bet ter known as MT. Savage" and Ro- land Winters as the new boarder J. Edward Davis, who offers Johnny no little trouble with his date prob lens.
 Playwright-A Actor Howard Lindsay and Basil OConnor, head of the Ma tional Foundation for Infantile Par alysis and of the American Red Cross, will be guest experts of NBC's Information Please" tonight at 9:30 D. m.
 MT. O'Connor will appear in con- nection with the Foundations an- nual March of Dimes drive. MT. L in d ay co-author Life With Father" and played the title role for several years.
 They join regular experts Franklin P. Adam sand John Kieran and Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadi- man.
 Alan Ladd, screen star now play ing in And Now Tomorrow visits George Burns and Oracle Allen on their comedy program over the Columbia network tonight (WABC- CBS, 8:30-8:55 p. m..
 Sara Allgood is heard as Mrs. Reagan, cook for the Burns house hold, and Felix Mills conducts the orchestra in the incidental music.
 Rudy Vallee's past is long, as time in popular music circles is reckoned, but 1t doesn't reach back to Avalon" the tune he has se- lected as his musical autograph to be played during the WATR-Blue Network broadcast of Guy Lombar- do and His Royal Canadians to- night, at 1O:00 p. m. The lineup of orchestras for the Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands for the week beginning Jan. Is follows:
 Mon., Jan. IS, Louis Prima, Hal loran hospital, Staten Island, N. Y.
 Tues, Jan. 16, Frankie Masters, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
 We'd, Jan. IT. Charlie Barnet, U. s. Naval hospital, San Diego, Cali fornia.
 Thurs, Jan. 18-To be selected,
 Fri, Jan. 19-Charie Spivak, Jamestown, N. Y.
 Sat. Jan. 20, Sunny Dunham, Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana.
 Spotlight bands are heard over WATR WIZ and the Blue Net work at 9:3O p. m, E.W.T.
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mistake of stealing license plates from. . police car. YOu know how long you cant hold on to "hO pIates!"
 Finland's debt to us Is due about now-which is interesting because I thought we dealt in billions this war not just fins.
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All played the roles in the film.

Vox Pop goes aboard an Army hos pital ship docked at Charleston, South Carolina, tonight at D. m, CBS. Vox Peppers Parks Johnson and Warren Hull will interview members of the ships complement, including Army doctors and nurses, enlisted medical corpsmen and mer- chant marine crewmen, who bring wounded CTS home from the battle fronts.
 The Army Transportation Corps installation at Charleston is base for Army hospital ships crossing the Atlantic.
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00-WAF-Backstag Wife WOR-News, J. Gambling WJZ-News, W. Van Voorhis WABC-House Party: Art
 IIinkletter; News 4:15-W aDallas
 WOR-Jay Johnson, songs WJZ-News From Abroad 4:30-W Jones WOR-Food Forum: Dr.
 Walter H. Eddy
 WJZ-That's For Me, Music WABC--Feature Story 4:45-W Wilder WJZ--Hop Harrigan
 WABC-Off The Record 5:00-W -WEAF-When a Girl Marries WOR-Uncle Don
 WJZ-Terry and the Pirates WABC-Service Time:
 Waves on Parade 5:15--WEAF- Faces Life WOR-Superman
 WJZ-Dick Tracy 5:30-W WEAF-Just Plain Bill WOR-House of Mystery WIZ Jack Armstrong WABC-Terry Allen 5:45-W Page Farrell
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Boston beauties make up the date bait for lucky service men when Blind Date" goes to that city to- night. Broadcasting from John Han cock Hall at 8:30 p. m., over Sta tion WATR, CT Romeos will vie for three glamour girls, headed by Miss Massachusetts of 1914, and free dates with the trio or on of Bos- tons popular night spots. New York Charmers Kay Kidd, Susan Douglas and Mary Stewart Macdonald, or i9inally scheduled for this date, will grace the show 8 week later, on Monday, Jan. p.
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Shades of Ray Fitzpatrick, Christy Erk and Johnnie Cuney and a number of other local radio announcers, whose rapre talk has been compared to the late Floyd Gibbons best efforts, to Walter Wnchel and other celebrities. Ray could rattle batch of news with out taking deep breath; Christy has been clocked" for mentioning racket buster" and front man. thirty or forty times in the of a threeminute news flash. And Brother Cuney without shifting gears talk rapidly enough to complete assignment beat Fred Hickey to parking place. thereby avertng embarrassing entanglementS' over mere tag or fill luncheon engagement in his accustomed easygoing But you interested fast takers the radio here's what Earle Ferris New Yorks expert observer and publicity genius says ITO call "fast taker is to invite poke in the nose because it's phrase mony applied to hot-shot promoters and moochers In radio however there group of faSt takers who are, contrariwise solid citizens whose gift of gab has tributed much to their in entirely legitimate way One of radios speediest spielers Arlene Harris
 "The Human ChatterboX who has just returned to the air in the new Al Pearce show Here Comes Elmer" Arlene delivers her monoogue at the rate of 24O words
 minute than double the normal conversational rate She writes and memories all her material before going on the air. never uses script because she couldn't read as fast she talks! Radio gossip commentators are usually rapid takers through necessity They must learn to crowd maximum amount of news into short time. Walter WnchellS Saccato delivery is famous is the nonstop spiel of Hedda Hopper who machneguns her news about cnemaland each week "Hedda Hopper's Hollywood" But the fair has monopoly garrulity Garry Moore, dynamic Durante sidekick on CBS can give Arlene and Hedda stiff competition in any fast-talk contest. Garrys technique, which he developed long period, enables him to spin off nursery rhymes such as Little Red Riding Hood,"
 Goldocks" and Cinderella at rate faster than the human ear can asSimiate the meaning. Yet listeners gossip the gst of Moores whirWnd monologueS though the phrases together Secret that Gary accentuateS key and slows down tro for the final sentence thus allowing the nearer to catch up with the meaning. Dick Lane, frequent guest the Bob Burns Show is another radio actor whose triple tempo talk makes him comfortable living. Lane once broadcast 1200word script full of tonguetwsters in four minutes nat-and didn't trip on single syllable!
 Who remembers the good old days when along
 about this period of the winter the youngsters from
 to 16 years, made fOray the kitchen pantry much
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David Harding -Counterspy" in- veStigates a White-Skinned Japanese, sent to America as part of gigan- tic scheme to incite racial disunity, in '"The Case of the Ainu," on We'd nesday, Jan. IT over WATR, at (8:30 p, m.,) A quartet of leading senators discuss the grave problem What Should Be Americas War and Peace Aims?" on Americas Town Meeting" Thursday, Jan. 18. Sens. Claude Pepper, Charles w. Tobey, Dennis Chavez and Allen J. Ellender will present their views over WATR, at (8:3O p. m.,) Ann Burr, currently featured on Broadway in the new hit drama, "The Nasty Heart" and Karl SwenSon are the co-stars on Grand Central Station," Saturday, Jan. 20, over (CBS), at q p. m) An all-re- quest program of tunes, ranging from musical comedy hits to favorite hymns will be played by Phil Spital- ny and the Hour of Charm" all-girl orchestra on Sunday, Jan. q, over (NBC), at (l0 p. m).
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Who remembers the good old days when along about this period of the winter the youngsters from to 16 years made fOray the kitchen pantry much to the disgust of the hired grI got out pans kettles and big spoons measured flour and sugar and milk and moIasses; chopped nuts then proceeded to make mOlaSseS candy; you know, the Old-faShiOned kind that you boiled down and boiled down. let cool and then proceeded to pull as directed That was an evening, even if the candy out right, for it usually had to be melted down again and then SpOOned out into pan where it was cOnieaIed mass that had to be eaten with spOOn dug out with a knife.