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! PAGE F0U3 Thm OREGON STATESMAN. Solera. Oregon. Tuesday Morning. January 9, .1943 q , "No Favor Sways Vs; No Fear Shall At&t From First Statesman, March 23, 1851 i THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor and Publisher - - Member of the Associated Press 'l 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. Oregon Gty Bridge In a vigorous front page editorialthe Oregon City Enterprise endorses a local proposal for widening the bridge over the Willamette river at that point, a proposal which upriver users of the bridge will endorse. While the McLoughlin boulevard and the new route through Oregon City takes most of the through traffic on high way 99-E, one likes occasionally to vary his route and go Oswego-way to or from Portland, which calls for crossing the river at West Linn Oegon City, i The Enterprise is wrongly informed, however; in! its criticism of the state highway commission fojr the narrowness of the present bridge. Says the Enterprise: j Constructed in 1922, when modern transpor- , tation had already begun, it has been a puzzle to many Why a roadway of such narrow width f-lt feet! 4 inches was provided for a bridge that servfs an arterial highway, connecting the State's metropolis and its capital. The super ' highway now carries a lieavy traffic but the West sidej artery is vastly important. ': By and large the engineer staff of the high way commission has displayed judgment and foresight! in the construction of highways and bridges during the last 25 years. Innumerable instances of 'building for the future" are evi . dent throughout Oregon's- 52,738 miles of high- way system. J An exceptional lack of foresight, however, Was displayed in the planning of our suspen sion bridge and for this reason, coupled with the. obvious need of an adequate bridge, the Highway commission should readily accept the proposal as part of its huge post-war program. The Enterprise needs to brush up on its local history before it blames the highway depart ment for the construction of its river bridge. The facts,! as we gather them, are as follows: The Clackamas county court provided $105,000 forj constructing the bridge but specified the street where' it should belocated. The city of Oregon City required thata walk and an eight-. fool driveway be left xn 'i?ach side of the ap proach street. Then on .the bridge five-foot walkways had to be left "to accommodate the considerable amount of foot traffic between West Lini and-Oregon City. The highway de partment built just aswide a bridge as it could under these conditions. Unless the city is willing to vacate the walks and driveways the only way. a wider bVidge could be jbuilt would be toj widen the street by tearing down portions of the buildings bor dering it.!; , - ' i We are informed, too, that the bridge could not be widened because of jits type of construc tion. It ijs not a suspension bridge but an arch type. spin bridge! "Widening the bridge," therefdrei means widening the approach street and building a new bridge which would con stitute a j'major operation.' Having so recently expended so5 much; money in constructing the new highway through Oregon City it is doubt ful if the highway commission would feel justi fied in undertaking so costly a project anyways soon. Taxing Municipal Bonds , , Twenty years ago Secretary Mellon recom mended that the exemption of income from state and municipal bonds from federal taxation be removed. Later secretaries of the treasury have made similar recommendations and at dif ferent times efforts have been made to get con gress to enact such a measure. Each time the opposition has been too strong and the measure has failed. j - Recently the commissioner of internal reve nue made another approach by seeking to coU lect an income tax; on interest received by an individual from bonds of the Port of New York it 5 - f - Editorial Comment BACK HOME ;: Even Aow, more than 300 years after the Pil grims, there is a feeling that New England is "back home." Its white churches and its Louisburg Square in a scurry of snow move some nostalgic spirit 'ev en in the Westerner or Southerner who has never seen them, and Christmas carols on Beacon Hill are as they are in no other corner of America. For these are days "when the minds of .men go to na tional beginnings as well as personal living and dy ing and! that dark coast and snowy hinterland to the .northeast face the Atlantic waste and what is on the other side just as they did when kings were oppressors and Hitler was not heard of. Maine,: New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, mountain range and rocky or sandy beach, they are all "beck home" to men at war whether they hail from New Orleans or Puget Sound,) or happen to hive been born some where in the long cold sweep of New England it- self between Colebrook and the Canadian border. The Androscoggin, the Penobscot &d the; Kenne- bee swirl beneath their northern ice, names less known than Plymouth, Boston and New Bedford, but fitting into the outline of our national story. Tonight the remote reaches of Moosehead will lie under their cover of jrhite, and somewhere across the sounding, sea there are men who, remember Greenville's general .'store and Lilly Bay and the . streets of Bangor, Maine, end the crash of the wat ers in the thunder hole on the rocky coast at Bar Harbor. And in Belgium there is a colonel of a famous name who comes"3from the gentler Narra ganaett country in Rhode Island and knows the homes of Peacedale and Wickford and the ancient , amenities of South County, where yellow corn meal still igoes into jonnycake made according to the recipe ox rnyuis, granaiatner s never-to-be-forgotten oook. . These are the things of New England, as varied as a patchwork' quilt and as unified in tradition and In purpose. Among; them the little farms breed their' cattle and raise; their products and the indus trial cities grind out. their war machines and their millions of yards of jtextuei, some of which must be dyed In the blood of men from many states! There the foundations were laid where men vote as they please and fight when freedom is assailed. There are many churches there of many designs, but the old white church is the symbol that repre sents them alL The qualities indigenous to JjTew England are those of everywhere that men have always wanted built into their homes. And so wihen the men in the fighting line say it they may mean ' Pasadena or they may mean Nashville but they klso mean New England when they say "back home;" New York Times. Authority. Thi approach, it is recalled, was j the one which finally brought salaries ot state and municipal employes under ! federal income tavatinn The thonrV then Used was that the 1 Port of New York was! an instrumentality of the state with a proprietary capacity and not . one of the political functions of government; ; and that employes of the Port were not strictly f speaking employes of government. This theory !, prevailed and its employes were taxes and im- mediately after all governmental employes were made subject both to federal and state in- ; come taxation. . j j ': j f.jhj.- ; rf In a recent decision of the federal. supreme f court however, the commissioner's position was J not sustained and interest from the Port bonds j was held to be exempt from federal taxes. The" J only relief for the treasury now lies in an act J of congress, .,!; j; ; ' i -:;:':;jS- i There are substantial s arguments on; both sides -of this question. Large sums of money ; are invested in state and municipal bonds be-1 cause of their immunity I from taxation both as i to principal and interest.! This cyclone cellar is used by persons of great wealth; to escape the high taxes in the upper brackets 0f incomeThe treasury needs the revenue from this source, and wants to end the discrimination. i The opposition asserts that the actual realiza tion to the treasury would be slight, and that taxing these bonds would result in higher inter est rates on' state and municipal bond issues which could be met onlyj by, higher taxes There is no doubt that the tax exemption feature gives a special advantage to municipal bonds, as is indicated by the interest rates on such bonds in comparison ! with! federal! non- exempts of similar maturity. ; The net result is nfatribott b Kinf Faatart Byndieai trr THcmiit witk Tb WMMngtoa Star Over the Wall News Behind the News ,' U '! By PAUL MALLON ' -!',''-'' : (Distribution by King Features Syndicate, Inc. Reproduction In whole i ;i 1 or In part strictly prohibited.) ii i, f WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 The fog in which we have been stumbling along toward a world peace organi zation is begin ning : to i thin that what is the federal government's loss Is f out the local government's gain. L The outline i , I f 1 ' of certain events to fcome is becoming discernible. True! enough, the Blrltish press has taken to abusing Pensions to War I Widows In the closing weeks of the 78th congress a new pension bill was passed greatly broadening l the Conditions under which pensions to widows of veterans of the first world waf may be paid. Heretofore such pensions would be paid only if: j li The veteran died of a cause directly due f to his war service ji j 'i 2 He died of a cause not connected with his j war, service but had suffered some disability, j no matter how small, during the 'war. f Under the new law the widow and children under 18 of a veteran of World War I can re- ceive a pension without any condition as to cause of the veteran's death. Other conditions for the pension are: Veteran must have served at least 90 days and not have been dishonorably discharged; the widow, if she has no children, I must not have an income of over $1000 yearly, or if she has children, not over $2500; if a wo- . man marries veteran after Dec! 15, 1944, she I must live with him at least ten years before his 1 death to be eligible for tiis pension. ; ! Benefits under the act are: widow without J children $35 monthly; widow with one! child ' $45, and $5 additional for each additional child f up to a maximum of $74 a month.' Where there f are surviving children but no widow the first child would receive $18, two $27, three $36, and I $4 for each additional child under 18. ! The veterans' administration expects to pay ; ; out nearly $40,000,000 the first year under this ; liberalized law; but it is estimated that the total cost will run into billions, and that widows may be drawing pensions as late a3 2080 A. D. ! When the jcountry starts paying pensions on ' a sizable scale on account of the; second! world war the total will run intp huge figures, making a steadily "increasing item in the national bud-v get for years to come, a burden for generations i. 1 i ' ..!,,-! .ii vpi uri Hirn '- i" " I " j Paul MUlon American policies (no i: doubt for ouij criticism of their policy In Greece) ; and threatening to join the ftussians against Vs while jthe Russian press occa sionally snaps at us also, and our own people look on con fusedly as both the Russians and British) are-j nniving against each other for power in post war Europe. I this Yet jin very confusion there piesi !a. great clarity. It seems to m events obviously are shaping up this way? The administration plafl is to stage a big three conference (Roosevelt, Churchill and Sta lin) for a f ijnal settlement of principles in a postwar club of nationsj and! then have the working diplomats draw j up a charter! for it, which Will be ready in April, (they hope and expect) ' j ! This I charter will pursue the Dumbarton Oaks line to a con clusion and the current tenden cy, both of the administration and much bf the American pub lic at large, is to worry whether It can iget through the senate, with the two-thirds majority which will be necessary. !j : Thus, we are fretting about crossing a distant bridge, not only before we get to it, but and her military occupation In evitably will result in the estab lishment of political regimes un der her control directly or in directly. The .British are doing the same' thing in Greece, Bel gium and Holland, j France has largely been occu pied militarily by us, but we are not exerting much political con trol, and the French are making certain arrangements with Rus sia. Joint Anglo-American in fluence prevails in Italy, but it is the British who are directing, the choice of cabinet ministers or vetoing them. The realistic point of this con dition Is that the Russian seiz ures are absolute, unquestioned (also completely under censor ship as to news) while those controlled by the British are open, democratic in theory and .subject to international bicker ing and constant controvery (even I including shooting re volts.) f .. I Now these occupations are all being made under a purely mili tary United Nations agreement supposedly j made at Teheran, and later, by Roosevelt, Chur chill, and Stalin. ; Some criticism has been made that Mr. Roosevelt also must have concluded secret political agreements ! for , division of spheres of influence, because of what has; followed. I do not think so. It: would .not be neces sary or advisable.; Military oc cupation inevitably brings poli tical domination. The Russians have their idea of democracy which travels with their armies, and we have an entirely different one, which is not traveling at all. To date, any realist 'must conclude"! they are getting 'away with theirs; we are not doing so well. By April,! it seems to me, this process of dividing Europe will Interpreting The War bridge immediately ahead. The Jf. "accomplished fact, an irre- pending problem is to. get a By KIRKE L News SIMPSON sound agreement on a charter, and the success or failure in laying this first bridge will au tomatically determine the re sult on the second bridge. The arrangement itself will determ ine whether the senate will ac cept it; : y- . j ( J j Thus! we should be worrying now only about getting a good charter yet this matter is little discussed. 51 ' 't ;l' ! , Considerable fog around this immediate bridge has been dis pelled by recent' events, though . not all.!, p - ;) ! Russia Is taking military con trol throughout central Europe trievably fait accomplL j Willi the Russians then come into the world cclub, or join club-like rule of a stable Eu rope maintained with the arms of the big three? I believe they wilL They will then, have what they want and naturally will de sire a ; world , organization plus our armies and the British to guarantee and ', preserve their gains forever, if possible. . In fact, I wonder if they did not prevent final agreement on the Dumbarton Oaks .line, and delay the I constantly-promised negotiations since then, in order to get what they could in Eu rope first. I The ideals -of Dumbarton for ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR ANALYST T For the first time since the battle of the Belgian bulge was started in mid-December by Nazis events elsewhere in the global war tended to displace that conflict in fcnerican observer-Interest, j l-i Japanese broadcasts filled the air with graphic, tales of the onset of the battle- of j Luzon in the Philippines. They told without other confirmation of massive American air and sea fleets battering at the Iingayen gulf approaches to the broad plains that lead southward to Manila bayj Huge American troop and supply convoys also were reported by the Japanese to i be converging toward the gulf for landing assaults, m . Pending American confirmation these Nipponese accounts cannot be accepted at face value. They UnPTTT t VarITTfVln,: ' lYC'A" I ! ! "R-.T Afnoo1a cover a significant sequence of developments lead-, iAJ- i lUUll IlJCiil. i Dj lllOSSier mg up io American reinvasion or Mizon, even if they prove premature so far as actual landing op-: erations or -the sites picked: for them: are concerned. No thoughtful Japanese who heard those Tokyo accounts of relays of Jieavy! American warcraft suc ceeding each other in sustained sea bombardment of Lingayen gulf shore defenses to supplement the raking American air attack; could ignore that com plication. No such massing of American sea and air strength and troop transports would be possible on the central western coast of Luzon while the Japanese fleet retained any real semblance of its former striking power.-! j ! ' " : Lingayen gulf lies all but in the shadow of the Japanese sea and air staging base, Formosa. To ap-: proach it with fleets and convoys of the size the Japanese reported would in the face of substantial enemy sea or air power based at Formosa invite disaster. It could not be risked unless American leadership was fully aware both of the strength and disposition of what remains of the Japanese fleet and utterly confident from previous experi ence of blotting out Formosa as an effective sta tionary plane carrier. i- 'i i i' f Previous American air forays over; lingayen gulf have disclosed the presence there of too much en emy merchant tonnage to i doubt that Tokyo has been making every effort to strengthen the Luzon garrison. A Japanese intimation that it would take an American force of not less than 10 divi sions to effect substantial lodgment there implies massed enemy' land forces! in the Lingayen area. But it is safe to say that General MacArthur from Philippine sources has far better information as to enemy dispositions on Luzon that he has chosen to reveal. . !' X-il-i -1 . Vour Federal Incomd Tax - "Sera, son hell be 'down la a flashT SURTAX EXEMPTIONS : FOX TAXPAYERS In determining the amount of income tax you owe you are en titled to the benefit of a credit known las "surtax exemption.' If you use your withholding Receipt as a return,- or Jf you file a short-form return on Form 1040, the benefit of the surtax exemption is allowed automat ically through the use of a tax table provided by law If you make a long-form on Form 1040, you should subtract this ex emption from your, net income before applying the surtax rates. . There is a separate credit (or exemption) for each kind of tax, ' (Continued on page 8) i A; . AT THE FRONT!. Chained Pajamas Erinij Good Luck To Yank Captcdn free determinations of ; people, -might be embarrassing j to Jbhe Lublin Polish! recognition, etc, unless, they -got into those coun tries to stage the - elections themselves. Their bargaining .position with us certainly has been improved about J.00 per cent by the delay they caused. But will our people and the senate want a charter in April which perpetuates with arms the things they are now criti cizing so severely' In Europe? Will the adrninistrationr want it? And what will we get out of it? j r There are certain discernible . answers to these questions au thentically available here and I will report them tomorrow. The Literary Guidepost By W. O. Rogers "BETOND AIX FRONTS, ;Ty Max Jordan (Bract; $3). . . j ; The respectable, decent, . liberty-loving German, popularly regarded by Allied peoples right now as an extremely rare bird, is reintroduced to us by today's author, Max Jordan, j Born of German parents and educated in Europe, Jordan was a student j in a German university in World jWar 1. His book, incidentally, was published in Wisconsin, the state which voted against the late Wendell WHlJrie, of "One World" fame. j The Germans whose names and records are cited constitute the real, abiding Germany, Jordan believes. They formed the first battalions of the Underground. They disapproved of anti-Semitism, and are unaware even to day of the f full extent of the brutalities inflicted by German army and Gestapo in : occupied areas. . : ', .1 5 One of Jordan's "good" Ger mans is Karl Goerdeler, Leipzig mayor hunted and once reported captured for his role in the "gen eral's revolt" No doubt every instance is authentic in every syllable. The question is, how representative are these 6f Ger many? i While Jordan has some fresh information, his arguments were frequently heard j in this country 10 or IS years ago. Jordan is particularly critical of the between-wars part played by France. He charges the French occupation of .the Ruhr in 1923 was harmful to the young Ger- man democracy: That may be; r but it is incorrect to leave readers with the impression that : France's position was not strictly ; justified by the Versailles treaty, : and unfair to condemn the occu pation then but to complain be cause France did not fight to stop Hitler's reoccupation of the Rhineland. 1 , l " -j Once upon a time Versailles was deplored as too severe. Jor dan still holds that view, though most people regard that pact as . magnanimous in comparison with treaties imposed by Germans in World War I. . - Perhaps the least "convincing paragraphs are those which dis mis the 1833 book-burning- as a mere prank, i . : : IN BELGIUM, Jan. 6 (Delayed) p)-That pair of pink and blue pajamas has done it again for CapL Albert E. Milloy of Hatties burg, Miss a paratrooper. So it's about time to tell their story of charm. t j It should be explained that the' pajamas are charmed not charmingalthough, on the other hand, I certainly have no inten tion of making any side remarks about any paratrooper's wearing appareL They,r- " V"? may be cnarm- ; ing to him,' but that's strictly a personal mat- bert has fought ' this war for? a if" coupie 01 years . ( , in some half, a $S ht lands which is Kxee enough to make the ordinary guy slightly superstitious, if not more so. And paratroopers gen erally are considered somewhat extraordinary in the matter of living on luck. I A member of the 82nd air borne division. Captain Milloy now is helping buck back the German bulge" into : Belgium, Which is where the most recent incident occurred but that's get ting ahead of the story. ' , - I Back in Fort Benning, Ga In - what now is known to members f the 82nd as "the old country,' -Albert received this pair of pa jamas from Miss Frances Barron, - a Hattiesburg girl who, accord- ing to Albert, has brown hair and "makes the average pinup girl look puny." 1 - J Came the morning when j he was scheduled to make his first jump there. He overslept. Rudely awakened at the last minute, he pulled .a pair of coveralls over his pajamas and, thus attired a short time later, he yelled, "Ger ohimo,M and hit the silk. il tL ie jump was successful. Not being one to crack such an ob vious omen of good 'fortune in the teeth, Milloy promptly made the pajamas a permanent part of hi itimninc aboareL Since then he has donned the pajamas before jumping into at least six countries including Sic ily, Italy and Holland. He has spent 275 odd days in combat and has had more close calls than any other six men could be ex pected to survive. He gives the pajamas all the credit . Shortly after the Salerno jump, a 155 mm shell struck squarely on the roof of his dugout. "It was a nice life j while it lasted," groaned ' Albert to a sergeant lying alongside him in that split second as they awaited the, blast. But it was a dud. 1 r At the Anzio beachhead, the pajamas were frayed and worn, but still their magic worked. ' Three times j there, Albert had houses collapse on top of him from shellings and various things. His hair got mussed. Another time, he was sitting at a command post when an armor piercing shell came in one win dow and went out another with out hurting him. Some say, it even whisked a cigarette out of his mouth, but others say he dropped ft. j . Holland put another patch on the pajamas, but none on Albert. Most of the time overseas. Captain Milloy commanded C company of the 504th which had the lowest casualty rate in the ' retfimeni. When h was trans- ferree to another company, they begged him to leave his mirac ulous pajamas hanging in com pany C's orderly room. Gently, but' firmly, Albert ex plained that Frances had given those pajamas to him and that I he would as soon leave his right arm nailed to the wall as those ; ' (Continued on page 8) GJEP 0333110 (Continued From Page 1) Oregon voters to reverse this oft-repeated decision. Sen. Coe AT HcKenna, author of the last sales tax bill, is proposing an injterim commission to study the tax question. It seems to me that .the jfacts are well enough known for the legislature to act oh tax matters without experts or in terim commission. . , On forestry matters Governor Snell 'shows an understanding of their importance. He recom mends a revolving fond of $100,000 for use of the forestry board on its acquisition pro gram, and increase of the re search appropriation to $50,000. The: former sum seems alto gether too modest On a proper forestry program for. Oregon the state could afford to invest millions of dollars, and should not ! hesitate to do , so. Every yea? of delay in reforesting cut over and burned-over land post pones by a year the harvest of a new crop thereon. The limited research program 'at Oregon State college has not yet proven very fruitful of returns; but ought to be continued and re vised. J . Taking cognizance -of mutter- togs'-over the-operations of the liquor commission, particularly with regard j to the purchase with Washington of , two mid western distilleries, Governor SneU requested the appointment of a legislative committee to in vestigate the commission's work, with impartial auditors to audit its books. In this recommenda tion the governor takes the ini- . tiauve, being conscious of the ' political damage, done Governor Langlie in the late election over ; .this jda , , I think a financial audit will show that the state stands to profit richly by the deaL But a . moral audit would not show the state in so good a light It has always looked to me as though the state was overreaching In its greed for whiskey or for pro fits to enter into a distillery purchase, in a deal which per mitted a broker to make exor bitant profits. ' The governor recommended establishment: of a department of veterans welfare without com ment on just how it would func- . tion or whether it would super sede the present war veterans service committee. There will be heed to provide assistance for war veterans, but care should . be taken to . avoid duplication of effort Jn this! field. Conversion of profits ,- from the 4iquor administration into the general fund instead of ear marking themj for public welfare is a sensible recommendation. ' However it Would overturn the original plan of distribution of .such revenues among cities, counties and state, which never went into effect because of the , welfare needs. This is proper from an accounting standpoint; but there ought to be a larger sharing of proceeds of this op eration with the cities. Unemployment compensation was discussed by the governor i with the recommendation of lib eralizing the ) benefits and ex tending the application of the ct Both such moves are en couraged by the social security board. The governor urged re tention of experience rating In assessment of employers. The governor referred to the recent discussion bf purity of the: milk supply in Its relation to undulant fever; but he didn't untie the wrappings on this package as he passed It over to the legislature for "full consid ,eration of all. phases of the sub- 4 ai 99 The message was silent on such controversial, questions as Increase in state support for Public School hw)ll.i;.. Lm the Walker plan of discounts on Income taxes,! entry of private firms into Industrial Insurance, and uniformity pf fees charged trucks- tor road use, cocktail bars and $60 pensions. The governor's characteristic caution may have dictated si lence at this stage of the game. However, he will be to his of fice all through the session and can communicate his views on these questions any, time he so desires. He Is leaving to the legislature Itself the working out of such laws as seem to the , members desirable at this time. STSVEIIS DIAMONDS WATCHES' , JEWELRY Esqnisifo Diamond Pings! 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