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Hi OREGON STATESMAN. Skxlea Oregon. Tuesday Morning, February 2. 1S43 ' .k. . By ANNE ROWE - - '" ' ' ; s. - rv. n w . . i . ........ zz j . . i f THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. 5 CHARLES A. SFRAGUE, Editor and Publisher Member of The Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this newspaper. The Nazi Radio Line The RAF did a neat job Saturday morning when its fliers timed their arrival over Berlin at the exact moment when Reichmarshal Goer ing, second to the "all-highest," was due to address the German people by radio on! the 10th anniversary of Hitler's assumption of pow er, in Germany. Too bad they didn't drop a bomb down Goering's throat; but the noise of bomb explosions, was heard all over Germany, i even to London. Goering's Cnerhour stutter was more revealing than words that his, promise that Berlin would never be bombed was just another political promise. ) It's too bad we do not get to listen in on more of the radio propaganda. ; Some people here do pick up the Jap shortwave which is jiere turpi;, up uw suuiknatc nun.u w . sJiJSs, News Japs are by no means as skillful as the nazis.whose victories have been due hall to their tactics in mass psychology and half to blitzkrieg. . Just now the German propaganda bureau is in bad shape. Its signals have been mixed -so many, times that its results must be woefully disappointing. Take the Casablanca conference, Propaganda Minister Goebbels and his stooges completely missed that one. When Churchill slipped out of the news for some days they had a hunch some thing was cooking, and jumped to the con clusion that he had gone to Washington. Then radio beamed to the Slovaks that "Churchill has once again gone to Washington to seek help." The "Paul Revere" whoMalks to the United States told us about "poor Mr. Church ill's journey for the fourth time in 18 months, this time to the very shores of the Potomac." And the nazi propagandists speculated widely on what Churchill and Roosevelt were framing up. When the Casablanca story came out, the ' nazis of course had to adopt another line. But their listeners over the occupied countries are ; hardly as agile as the speakers in making the mental shift. We in this country have been critical of the overdone "build-up" for the Casablanca meet- ing. However the material may have been ; designed most of all for radio attack on enemy and occupied countries. The exposure of Ber lin's phony line and the playing up of the drama of the heads of two great countries meet ing in a distant continent now very much in the news, and the announcement of plans for I big-scafe offensives undoubtedly had profound effect on all the people in Europe. Getting back to nazi radio, its propagandists have had to eat their words about Rommel. 'Last June the line was: "Rommel is . at the gates of Alexandria;" "He will take Alexandria at once;" then on July 23rd "It was part of Rommel's plan to halt temporarily at Alamein." When Rommel attempted his break-through in September radio Berlin "dared the British to pretend that this was merely patrol activity." When this failed it was described as a "testing operation." After Montgomery's Eighth army cracked the Alamein line nazi radio said Rom mel was "disengaging himself;" and on Janu ary 22nd "Rommel continues to carry out the strategic moves decided by him," which meant of course "disengaging" himself for 1500 miles or so. Next the line was "Rommel has led his troops towards Tunisia." Led them indeed, with RAF and American planes overhead past ing his truck columns and Eighth army mortars . and howitzers and tanks cracking up his, lines when he paused to catch his breath. , Radio Berlin has been "off the beam" so i much lately that even the dumb followers of I Hitler know that der Fuehrer's intuition is plenty sick. Now the news of the loss of the army at Stalingrad will tax the ingenuity of Goebbels himself to explain a way. Defeat for FDR The president suffered a disastrous political defeat when he was forced to withdraw the nomination of Edward Flynn as minister to Australia. Flynn requested it, but not ' until defection of democratic senators ruined his chances for confirmation. The virtual rejection is more than a defeat for Roosevelt, it reveals a split within the democratic ranks which may well prove fatal. Here was the man who had served as chairman of the democratic national committee through the 1940 and 1942 campaigns, yet he is defeated because his own party failed to stand behind him. True, he was a New York political boss, but he was more decent than the usual Tam- ' many bosses. True, he had no special qualifi i cations for the job, though a man of 'excellent education, but he was no worse off in ability ' than others who have been named to diplo matic positions. True, he was being sent to a most important war-time post in Australia, but ignorant of Australia) as Ee is, he might have done a better job than career diplomatist Robert Murphy has in North Africa j 1 Get behind the political scenery and the re jection is pretty much due to the revolt against Roosevelt within his own party. Those taking a stand against; Flynn7 were Gillette of Iowa, Van Nuys of Indiana, who were once on the administration purgee list. Then there was Sen. McKellar of Tennessee, who got his instructions from Boss Crump of Memphis. Compared with Crump Flynn can wear lilies in his hand. Flynn was a poor selection,- and it gave; the party rebels a convenient paddle to use to spank the president with. - , Modern Woman v Our society page Sunday- announced that the AAUW radio group would hear Dr. O. IL Chambers of the state college speak on "Why is the modern woman and what .axe her natural "and compelling responsibilities?" Only a psy chology professor would tackle that question. You would think these university women would know the answers already; but perhaps they want a college prof, to "hold the mirror up to nature." - - - - - '- As far as we can observe the "why of the rr.oerv woman U the same as the ancient "No Favor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Aws? From First Statesman, March 2S, 1851 Get braced oil goes on the in propaganda The News By PAUL MALLON I 1; 'i ' y. f cut I, iVthJMii'i i U raal tunoB 13 furrnsning tne impetus behind the move. Congress is getting ready to diminish some few of the extreme special privileges granted labor unions beyond other citizens or croups by this labor government. The house judiciary committee has just reported a bill to remove the exemption of unions from the federal anti-racketeering laws. No effort has yet been made to make the unions pay taxes, or submit their finances to inspection, but congress might remove their ex emption from the anti-trust laws which now ap ply even to the American Medical association. The labor leaders may be starting this wage drive in order to conduct a fight to their own, rather than to meet defensively the congressional drive to remove one or two of their special extra legal privileges. But deeper than this, there is specific labor politics inspiring the wage insurrection at this pe culiar moment of national war peril; The CIO outcast, John Lewis, made it very clear, at the recent anthracite hearings before the war labor board, that he would demand the terrific increase of $2 a day for his restive hard coal boys when the new contract comes up this next month Mr. Roosevelt's "Little Steel" formula ; to the contrary, notwithstanding. The Roosevelt formula would allow the anthra cite miners only a 5 per cent increase, and the bituminous miners none at all. Only a few days after Lewis decided to assault the "LitUe Steel" formula, CIO's Phil Murray an nounced he would call an executive committee meeting here early this month to formulate simi lar demands for his crowd. As the anthracite outlaw strike showed, the workers seem to have a little different attitude toward this government than their leaders. The leaders have been getting practically every thing they wanted, quietly, piece by piece, from the war labor board. Maintenance of membership contracts have been' handed out right and left, established practically closed shops, which suited the union bosses perfectly, but did nothing for the workers. They see only that they must face a cost of living which has increased 22.1 per cent since the war began (department of labor figures issued January 29) with a 15 per cent wage increase. They figure that they are about 7 per cent behind, (hard ly enough to raise a fuss about in times of national sacrifices, but they are doing it) - Murray was not going to let Lewis get away with the political intra-union popularity of assuming such , leadership, without getting in on the play himself. Bill Green's AFL has kept relatively quiet and he might be smart enough to know that the tem porary advantage of another 7 per cent increase is nothing compared to the damage the worker will suffer if Mr. Roosevelt's economic apple-cart is upset and inflation grips this country. Union wages can never go up fast enough to meet that pinch. Green may have the sense and ability to show bis boys that their kind of hypersensitive selfish ness will dig the grave of labor in times like these. But beneath him in the AFL are smouldering the same fires which sent John Lewis out in front, and caused Murray to follow him. Furthermore, Mr. Lewis is likely to get some anthracite increase. He can show that WLB has not kept very religiously to its own formula. v Only the other day, the board granted another $1 a day. increase to metal miners, making , their jump somewhere near 50 per cent This was done at the recommendation of Manpower McNutt, who could find no other means of keeping men at work ; in that unpleasant, but vitally necessary occupa tion. ' As WLB well knows, men cannot be frozen into the similarly hard job of ; coal mining. Further more, the operators want a two-year contract out of Lewis, and may be willing to let the public pay for It They like long contracts with Lewis because he keeps them, whereas the radical CIO auto workers and some other unions have a reputa tion for walking out from contracts and seeking increases whenever they feel like It ' One current such' case is that of the New York Dress Makers union, an affiliate of the Interna tion , al Ladies Garment Workers. Last week they jumped a contract extending to 1944, and,' in a strike, de . manded a wage increase. Gothing prices are fixed, but win be lifted, no doubt If the garment workers get their Increase, after the manner in which Lewis recently forced ', an increase in the price of anthracite coal in re turn for allowing the miners to work a six-day week of seven hours' a day, of the SS hour- week they enjoyed during the first year of war. ; Labor , leadership, playing politics, seems likely to create a situation that no one here may be able ,v to stoD. ' - - woman. Just at present, like the Indian squaw, she is doing the work while the men folks arc off fighting. - ;i : l h;. . : Anyhow we wish Dr.' Chambers, luck. Wo once joined him in a forum at an OSC home makers' clinic, and our guess Is he will be able to take care of himself without having rolling pins thrown at him- yes, the "modern'! women, AAUW included, know how to use them, Radio Jap claims the sinking of two American battleships and three cruisers. Probably just another Midway victory for the Japs. for another questionnaire: fuel ration block this month. . seas. a Behind I Distribution by Klac mtures Syndicate. Inc. Bcpr tfuctioa la wbo) or la part strictly prohibited WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 If you did not see it you would not believe the unions are getting ready to campaign for another wage increase beyond the 15 per cent Mr. Roosevelt granted these privileged workers. They indicated operJy, however, that they want to upset the loosely assembled economic apple-cart (chiefly the "little Steel" formula) which the president erected against inflation. Congressmen are convinced the reason for the campaign is that labor is out to off-set the income taxes now reaching down into its class of workers for the first time in history. The increase might just pay their new income taxes. 1 rather believe labor poli- i Ms?-:'' War of v. :... i spkwusts . - , . ; I iOKIL- war ?,-' SPEC,Al,ST5 1 Who Has the Jitters Now? Cadio FVogirainnis KSUf-TUESDAY 139 Ke. 7 :00 News. 7 :03 Rise 'n' Shine. 7:20 News. 7 :45 Your Gospel Program. 8:00 Bert Hirsch Novelty Band. 8:30 News Brevities. 8:35 Singing Strings. S:00 Pastor's Call. 9 :15 Dickson's Melody Mustangs. 9 JO Popular Music. 8:45 Uncle Sam. JO.-OO World in Review. l:OS Jimmy Cash with Sleepy Heads. 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' 4 :05 Stars From the Blue. 430 Singing Strings. 4:45 News. 5 rOO Terry and the Pirates. 5 :15 The Sea Hound. 9 30 Jack Armstrong. 5 :4S Captain Midnight. 6.-00 Hop Harrigan. 6:15 News. 6 :25 The Lion's Roar. 6 UK) Spotlight Bands. 6 5 Little Known Facts. 7 AO Raymond Gram Swing. 7 :15-Grade Fields. 7:30 Red Ryder. SAO Earl Godwin. News. 8:15 Lum and Abner. 830 Information Please. 9 AO Duffy's. 930 News. 9:49 Down Memory Lane. 10:15 Mary Bullock. Pianist. 10:30 This Nation at War. 11 AO This Moving World. 11:15 Bal Tabarin Cafe Orch. 11 30 War News Roundup. KGW NBC TUESDAY 20 Ke. i 4:00 Dawn Patrol. ! 9:45 News. i 85 Labor News, j 6 AO Sunrise Serenade. i 830 News Parade. - 8:55 Labor News. : 7 AO News Headlines St Highlights. 7:15 News, :. 745 Sam Hayes, ; 8 AO Stars of Today. I 8:15 James Abbe Covers the News. I 830 House Divided. J 8:45 David Harum. 9 AO The O'Neills. - 9:15 Everything Goes. i 930 Mary Lee Taylor. 9:45 Kneass With the Newa. 10 AO Air Breaks. 10:15 Sketches in Melody. 10:30 Homekee per 's Calendar, i 10:45 Dr. Kate. i 1 1 AO Light of the World. ! 11 :15 Lonely Women. S 1130 The Guiding Light. 1 11 45 Hymns of Ail Churches, f 12 AO Story of Mary Marlin. 5 12:15 Ma Perkins. ? 12:30 Pepper Young's5 Family. 1 12:45 Right to Happiness. !i 1A0 Backsetage Wife. 1 1 as Stella Dallas. The Safety Valve Letters from Statesman Readers ENGLEWOOD FIRE To the editor: Referring to your article in January 27th issue of your paper inregard to the Englewood school fire. If you want the real facts con cerning the fire at Englewood school on Monday, January 18th, and how things were managed at the school during the fire, please answer the following . questions. Why was the regular bell rung at 9 o'clock calling the more than 400 children into a burning building? . Are there any teachers in the Englewood school, if so, where were they? - Your article does not mention the teachers. It does, however, mention a dentist being in the building at the time of the fire. . What caused, this dentist to cough and the tears . to flow down bis cheeks? j Why not ask neighbors - and fire chief how things were man aged during fire? . s Who were the kind people who took children, without wraps, J into their homes and cared for them? . . How long were children and teachers kept standing outside in the severe cold after the fire department arrived? .Did the fire chief request the principal to ' the children when he noticed that children were suffering - from the ex treme cold, some without wraps? Since I am interested in the1 welfare of our "children and am a taxpayer, I feel that I have a right to know the answers to the above Questions. - MRS. - D. . J. I CALLAHAN , Editor's Note: The Statesman made no independent Investiga tion of. fkiglsnrooxt school - fire. . 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' 8:13 News. 8 30 Evening Farm Hour. 73ft Learn to Speak Spanish. 745 Neighborhood News, ' 8 AO World in Review. t- 8:15 School of Music, , 830 Higher Education la Wartime. - 9 AO Piano Concert. - -9:15-OSCCadetBand. ' " 930 News. ' 9:45 Treasury Star Parade. ! 1 AO American Melodies. JO 30 Melodic Song. 1 11 AO The Hour of Great Musi. Spring on tftxy? 1 PORTLAND, Fek. l-CTV-Twe ' stens f Spring- were Veerresl la Oreg-en Memday Shedd, tsi - the wniaxnetie valley, reported large flocks of docks wlagtag terthward 'and Grants Pass km seBthera Oregon skM a local resident mewed his dawn. Republicans Elect PORTLAND, Feb. l-(JPh Alan Brown, Portland, was elected pre sident of the Multnomah, chapter of . the Oregon Republican club Monday; . succeeding State Sen. Jack.Lyncb,'.,i-,'N''WJ-'.'" "ivs- Chapter 10 Continued From the valley,1 1 ipresume Forrestall shrugged. "It doesnt look like much of anything, but then, rm not a geologist Per haps Professor Stoddard can tell us whether or not ttere's any sense in keeping it? The little professor produced a pair of special glasses, adjusted them on his pudgy nose,, bent closely over the object of our ' curiosity lifted it-put it down r-agatojry;,;.';: - A common , fieldstone," he pronounced scornfully. . "It may ' comet rom. Central America or ' from around the corner. At any rate, it certainly has no intrinsic value. What did Mr. Burton say about it in the er 4etter be left?".' - "'. ' " JI wouldn't know," Forres tall toid him coolly. The letter was sealed and addressed to his son. All I ; did was put. it in the safe." ' r "In your office, iiaturally," Professor Stoddard supplement ed with an approving nod. J; , "No. In this room, as directed in the wiU," Forestall told him, a little wryly. "Everything was " to be left in the house. The safe's - - - an old crate a child could open, but it is absolutely fireproof, and ' ' so well hidden it's practically not there at all. So why not?" Followed idle conjectures - about the concealed . safe, and -presently we were. back in the hau. . - , :, .'v; My nerves had been, twitch ing ; the longest, .time over the delay, and Aunt Millie too' had given signs of restlessness. No wonder we were making a bee line - to the upward liight of stairs now. Arm in arm, for mu-' tual support. . . . ' We only got . to the bottom step. . . Roberts,,, wordlessly but firmly, barred our way, and For restail called to us: . "Nothing to . see up there,' ladies. Only,' servants' quarters and a few stripped guest rooms. That right, ItoDerts?" Roberts said "Yes sir" "for a third time. But he didn't budge from his post and there was nothing for us to do but turn back. It was a dead give-away. For- restall might as well have said There's something us there I don't want you to see." Aunt Millie and I exchanged a glance. Then she saaid sweet ly: "Too bad. I'd hoped for an" attic full of discarded treasures I could wheedle out of you!" and walked downstairs, pulling me with her. I said nothing. I was too busy thinking of the tall, narrow windows with the primitive fast enings. How could I open one,' unnoticed?-' ' .. " The - weather, for once, was my ally. It had started to rain -during our explorations and was pouring now, causing a lively . debate of how to get home. "It wouldn't, be a great way -from the rear' wing. Isn't there a door there?" Aunt Millie asked. -1 darted across the back parlor . to a window. Presumably to look if such a door existed. . TTes, there Is. At the very end of the wing. Come on, every- : body!" I sang out as if I had made a rare discovery A minute later, we were all scuttling through the downpour. Aunt Millie and I under her umbrella. - "I opened the catch of" that window X was looking through,": Your Federal Income Tax , DEPRECIATION (PART 1) v Among the deductions allowed in arriving at net income for federal . income tax purposes is depreciation. . Depreciation may be sustained in connection with property giving rise to rental in come shown' in item six of re turn. Form 1040, or property., . used in business or, profession, the net profit (or loss) from . wbich is shown in item nine. The property must, of course, be -owned by the taxpayer. , As relates to federal Income taxes, depreciation Is an allow- v ance for exhaustion, 'wear and tear of property used In a trad or business, or of property held for the production of Income. - .The purpose underlying allow ances for depreciation is to per mit the taxpayer to recover over the useful life ot the property the capital , sum invested . therein. ' The terms "used in trade or bus iness" or "held for the produc tion of income" would include property held for such purposes though actually not in use dur ing the taxable year. Deprecia tion deductions are not allowable on property used for personal purposes, such as one's residence -i or its furnishings, or automobue 1 or pleasure craft. However,, if . a taxpayer eaoves out of. his house and rents it, It would be come : a rental property upon which a depreciation deduction would be allowable; or if a tax payer used his car iq part for business purposes, then a portion of the depreciation on the car,, : depending upon the relative use for business purposes, would be allowable. A distinction must be made between depreciation and ' what may be called fluctuation in val ue. In the case of an automobile, At Is rornmonly said that once a car has been driven from a deal er's show room it becomes a second-band car, and by "that fact I told her under our common shelter ',;:: .v) - ' : "Swell- I hoped you would, she whispered back. - - The moment Forres tall and Professor Stoddard had gone. Aunt Millie and I put our heads . together. If there had been a faint doubt in our minds, there was none left now. Bruce was hiding on the top floor of his house and with the full knowledge and. connivance . of his , stepfather's .executor.;' "What does it mean? What's behind all the secrecy? And what's Baldie Stoddard's game?" , Aunt Millie thought out loud. I Was too concerned with my own affairs to bother about a stranger, or bis motives. "Never mind Stoddard. When do we go . back? I must see Bruce. I must get my life straightened out." , The decision was simple: To night, after dark. As soon as the light was on in the attic win dow. The conditions were ideal for our purpose. Dad had called up In our absence, leaving a mess age to have dinner at seven sharp. He'd have to rush back to work in less than an hour, and Allan wouldn't opme at alL . That meant no one to watch us or ask : questions about our movements, the whole evening. And peace of mind, the security of freedom, for ever after! And then, all our beautiful plans went smash. Dad did not ' go back to the shipyard. An ex pected long-distance call from Washington tied him to the house."".,--..; ; " . ; : It depended an the length of a certain conference whether it would come early 'or late.-And either way it kept him from do ing what he'd intended, and got on his nerves. And when some thing getson Dad's nerves, he has to be entertained. Aunt ; Millie slyly suggested , chess with Gala, and Dad J jumped at the idea and to the phone. i But he put the receiver down shortly, with a very long face. : "Miss Burton Isn't feeling well, it seems. Her maid says she's already gone to bed and can't be disturbed he told us de jectedly. Now whatH I do until that- confounded call comes through?" ' "Play chess with" me," Aunt Millie offered resignedly. "I may not be so good as Gala Burton, but-X still know how." : I almost cried, X was so dis- ' appointed. liven . a . whispered Buck up, Kay. . Allan's coming later to report to your father. We can go then," didn't help much. ; Later might be too late. Rob erts might have made his rounds and closed the open window latch. I felt tears sting my eyelids, no matter how I tried to appear : cheerful, and at last I fled to my room with a murmured reference to a book, in sheer self-protection Of course. I was much too keyed-up and miserable to read, and stood at the window, staring out into the night, listening to . . the rain on the young leaves and watching the light that wouldn't do me any good now. It shone faintly through the 'dimming curtain of fine spray ,j that filled the air. Taunting mocking me. may lose a considerable amount of its value. ' However, only that part of the loss in value which Is due to actual exhaustion, wear and tear in business use, during the year, may be deducted as de preciation. ' A further requirement In de termining depreciation Is that the property must have a limited and determinable useful life in the trade or business. Land, for : Instance, upon which a building is erected. Is not depreciable, since it has no determinable life, and In setting up depreciation on real estate, a segregation must be , made between the cost or other basis for the land, and the cost or other basis for the build ings. . . The length of useful life of a property is often a difficult mat ter of estimation. The useful life of a building, or a machine, the furniture used In a physician's office, a lawyer's professional li brary, or a tractor on a farm, depends on particular circum stances, including the character of the property and the charac ter of its use. A well-built brick building may have a useful life of SO years and a frame house 25 years, a piece of machinery five to ten years,, but In particu lar Instances the useful life may vary ; considerably, ; In depreciation deductions, the mount claimed must be' sup ported by the data called for in Schedule J of the return Form 1040. This schedule requires a statement of theJdnd of property being depreciated, the date ac Tiired, the cost or other basis used in Cftnputlng depreciation, the depreciated value at the end of the year, the depreciation al lowed or allowable In prior years, and the remaining cost or other basis to be recovered, as well as the estimated life used in accumulating depreciation and the estimated remaining life at the beginning of the year.