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SIX ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW. ROSEBURG, OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1942. Roosevelt Vetoes t ew Officer Bill WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (AP) - President Konspvt-lt vetoed a hill today to authorize temirorary appointment or advancement of commissioned officers of if Coast Gunrd and Geodetic Survey in time of war or national emer gency. Mr. Roosevelt noted, in a mes sage to, the house, that the meas ure provided that commissioned officers on the Survey's active list "shall he deemed to be In act ive military service." He said he was informed that under this provision, all active commission ed service men in the Survey, Whether in time of war or peace, would he eligible for benefits to which military personnel and de pendents are entitled. It would be different, the pros Ident said, if a majority of the Survey's functions were clearly military or naval. "On the contrary, in time of peace," he said, "its duties and functions are normally civilian: and In time of war, most of them continue to be civilian." The president added that under existing law, Survey officers un der military or naval command are entitled to benefits applying to the armed forces. The Survey's main function Is to map the coast lines of the Unlled States and possessions. Sales Levy Urged as Phase of New Tax Bill (Continued from page 1.) treasury and survive." For the reason he said his or ganiallon favored a retail sales tax. lie asked also for technical changes In the methods of deter ming excess profits, for repeal of the capital stock tax and for a 20 percent tax allowance for Individ uals and corporations for the pur chase of non-Interest bearing government bonds. While urging a sales tax, as line the U. S. chamber of com merce, the NAM said a 5 per cenl withholding lax on individual earnings, such as the chamber fir 1 E. T. BOTTLED BY UNRATH also proposed, was "impractical and Indefensible." Cowdln, in recommendations prepared for the senate com mittee, called the revenue bill pending before it "one of the most imiiortant single measure ever to come before congress" and added: "A bad tax bill can lose the war." Alternate Plan Offered Through Cowdln, the NAM sur veyed 3,000 businesses and Indust rial units and estimated corpor ations would net about $18,000,- 000,000 this year. It proposed the treasury take $11,900,000,000 In taxes and leave approximately $6,000,000,000 or 2.7 per cent of estimated gross receipts for dividends, reserves and additional working capital. He estimated that on the same basis corporations would pay $13,500,000,000 in 1943. Such a total, he asserted, was "far beyond the corporate pay ments anyone in government has so far estimated or asked for." To make up the $37,200,000,000 total In 1943, the NAM would slash $2,000,000,000 from non-war expenditures, collect $5,200,000,000 by the . sales levy, $9,000,000,000 in individual income taxes at rates lower than those now pend ing, and obtain $7,500,000,000 from excise, employment, cus toms and micellaneous taxes not covered in Its recommendation. If the NAM program were en acted, it would double the $17, 000,000,000 in revenues existing laws were expected to produce In the current fiscal year, begin ning last July 1. The house bill now pending be fore the senate finance committee would add $6,271,000,000, its en actment boosting estimated re venues to $23,271,000,000 In the first full year of operation. This compared with an NAM suggest Ion that $35,200,000,000 be raised in 1943, combined with a $2,000,- 000,000 cut in non-war expendit ures. Boeinq "Pleads for Life" II. E. Bowman, of Seattle, told the senate finance committee to day In a faltering voice that the pending revenue bill "probably would end the existence" of the Boeing Aircraft Corp., which manufactures "flying fortresses" and other military aircraft. Asserting that the Boeing com pany, of which he is treasurer, would have to turn over 88.75 per cent of its net profits In taxes If the bill becomes law, Bowman said: "I am here to plead with you for the life of this company lie- cause in our opinion this tax bill, it passed In its present form, will probably end its existence, I say this with all seriousness." Bowman testified he had been urged by members of the senate defense Investigating committee to protest against provisions of the revenue measure. He said that because Boeing had suffered heavy losses during the base pe riod of 1936 39 while it was devel oping the flying fortress and other craft, and because it could claim only a low invested capi tal credit 96.6 per cent of its net income would be subjected to the proposed 90 per cent excess pro fits tax. "It is curious that I should be hero to plead for the life of this company at a time when In Seat tle the company and its employes are being given the army-navy production efficiency award," Bowman said. Marines Break Jap Grip On Island of Tulagi (Continued from page 1.) -v (AN AVERAGE FAMtY) EASY TO MAKE- f?SPf 5 j delicious- ARsHMAILow ECONOMICAL! ijQU A RiS I Tested and proved in thou- I., """""'S ' i and of homes. Ideal at a -" yf s?A l con'ectin deswrt . . . a JW nUtrtlQ for youngsters1 lunch, f 48& bom- dlum bombs on the enemy during 60-degree angle dives and then returned to strafe them in effec tively supporting allied ground operations, it was reported. The bombing and straiing si lenced machlnegun nests and de stroyed a house, while Australian mountain forces under the direc tion of a local commander, were cleverly out-maneuvering the Japanese on the ground. Oporations against tne Japa nese In the Kokoda area began Friday, the same day that Ameri can forces challenged the invad ers In the Solomons. Other far Pacific developments: India Renewed rioting and clashes with police flared in Mo handas K. Gandhi's six-day-old campaign against British rule in! India today, but there were Indi cations thar the mass civil dis-i obedience movement was slowly fizzling out. Dispatches from Bombay, the center of disorder, said the out breaks there were fewer and smaller. Reinforced police and troops stood guard in many cities, cur few restrictions were clamped down, and processions and meet ings were forbidden. While India smouldered, a Chi nese army spokesman reported that Japanese transports carry ing more than 20,000 troops were sighted in the gulf of Tonkin, possibly bound for new offen sives in southern Asia perhaps toward Burma and the Indian frontier. China war front U. S. army bombers attacked the Japanese held town of Yoyang lYochow) in northeast Hunan province, Ameri- can headquarters announceu, car- rying out a "highly successful" raid without loss to themselves. smash at axis warships In Nava rlno harbor, on the west coast of Greece, It was announced In Cairo. . ; A communique said the Ameri can filer scored two direct hits on a cruiser, started black smoke boiling from another cruiser, and caused a terrific explosion aboard a third cruiser after a bomb hit next to It. United States army fighting planes have entered the European fray on a large scale for the first time, having engaged in , 31 op erational sorties during the past 48 hours, United States Europe;- headquarters in London announc ed today. U. S. fighter squadrons, flying in conjunction with RAF fighter units, made three such flights over the coast of France. Twenty of the missions were over the sea, and eight were in terception sorties off the coast of England, the communique said. ' Fire Destroys Puget Sound Navy Dormitories (Continued from page 1.) paper basket had been ignited and paper towels in a holder on the wall had also been set afire. Morken's investigation develop ed lhat an earlier attempt had been made to start a blaze in this unit. Four of the destroyed "inits were under construction. The dormitories, located on part of the navy yard reservation, were operated by the farm secur; ity administration, and were known as "duration dormitories," being lightly constructed with the thought they would be razed after the war. Ninety trailer tires, many of them nearly new. were destroyed. They were stored in the basement of the James Boe home, the res idence tha.t burned. .They had been taken from trailers used as family living units on the project. About 60 trailer tires were saved. Bit) Generators Slated For Shajta, Keswick Dams SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13. (AP) Five hydroelectric rrpnpra. tors with a combined Dower no. tential of 275,000 kilowatts are scheduled for Installation within the next two years at Shasta and Keswick dams on the Sacramento river, the office of war informa tion said today. Higher priority ratines hnvt been obtained by the hnro.ni nf reclamation for the Shasta proj ect, OWI announced, so that its great power development may be brought more quickly into yvar ill p I pimSL2,lt0 J $ I k If aWwaiitmaB 111 and enjoy the whiskey that':: "CHEEBFUL AS ITS A'.LUE" OLD- SunnyBrook BRAND KENTUCKY STRAICHT BOURBON WHISKEY 3. 3: Muke yourself a cool drink with thii grand, genial bourbon. Savor its mellowness and line old-time tluvorl You'll cheer S up-inlantlyl Oregon's FsitMt Selling , Straight . Wrmkty $S 90.4 Proof H National Distillers Prod. Corp- N. Y. SS WfrrillllllinU Albacore Tuna Placed Under Price Ceiling ASTORIA, Ore., Aug. 13. (AP) The skyrocketing price of Albacore tuna flattened out against a price ceiling today. The office of price administra tion brought the price to, fisher men down from the all-time local high of $415 a ton to $398 and a maximum selling price of canned tuna was fixed at $16 a case. Edmund Mahcr, regional price director of the OPA's food sec tion, said the $398 a ton price is excessive "but it represents the best figure applicable to the situa tion that has developed In whole sale bidding for the product." The average price last year was $285. Mahcr said the price later might be revised downward. Stalingrad Awaits Assault F.om Nazis (Continued from page 1.) of the war was developing. The Russians frankly conceded that the situation In the Caucas us, where Hitler's motorized in fanrty was rapidly overrunning the whole northern Caucasus, was acute. Waves of 40 to 60 nazi dive bombers Were reported raining tons of high-explosives on towns and villaees, leaving the once pastoral Caucasus In flames. "German and allied troops, de spite stubborn enemy resistance, drove the enemy further back in the Caucasus region. One Rus sian group was cut off and de stroyed," nazi field headquarters said. "Between the Volga and the Don, the attack of German and Rumanian troops against stub bornly defended positions gained additional ground in fierce fight- j ing." , i This apparently referred to the ! Kotelnlkovs'Kl sector, 95 miles southwest of Stalingrad, where the Russians reported a sudden Intensification of the fighting as j the German sought to tighten the southern claw of a pincers drive against Stalingrad. Far to the north, the Germans admitted that Marshal Tlmoshen ko's armies were battering heav-, ily at nazi defense works In the Voronezh and Rzhev sector, southeast and northeast of Mos cow, with the Russians taking the initiative at both points. War in Mediterranean. Italian headquarters reported that axis planes and submarines still attacking a powerful Brit ish convoy In a three day-old bat tle in the western Mediterranean had Inflicted "heavy losses . . . above all to aircraft carriers." 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