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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1940. DENSE EXPENSE TO DOUBLE LEVIES ON JOIfCITIZEN Income Tax, Admission Liquor, Gasoline, Radio and Other Levies Upped By Trying Perimeter Washington, June 24 Mr. Citizen, who has a wife and one (mail child and earns $3,000 a year, figured today that he would nearly have to double hit federal tax payment to that Uncle Sam could buy airplanes and other defense equipment. Congress hai tacked on an extra 10 per cent here and there, with a few variations, but when Mr. Citizen got out his pencil he found it added up un expectedly. He calculated that his annual federal tax bill had been boosted from $27 to $40.70. This is the way he reached that figure: New Income Tax He has never paid federal In come tax heretofore, but since congress cut the exemption for a married man from $2,500 to $2,000 and added a 10 per cent super-tax to former tax sched ules, he calculates he'll have to pay $13.20 next March. The citizens go to neighbor hood theater and pay 39 cents apiece, except for the child, who gets in free. Under the old 40 cent exemption to the admis sions tax, there were no extras for the treasury, but now all ad missions over 20 cents will be taxed at roughly 10 per cent, and the citizens will pay about $4 tax In the next year on their weekly cinema. Mr. Citizen figures he will buy three gallons of whisky and a barrel of beer a year, for him self and friends. The federal whisky tax, at this rate, used to cost him about $7 a year ($2.23 per gallon of 100 proof), but next year It will be over $8 ($3 per gallon of 100 proof). His barrel of beer (about 300 bottles) formerly was taxed $3 and now it Is $6. Cas Tax Uppad Mr. Citizen drives about 10. 000 miles a year, using 500 gal lons of gasoline. The govern ment used to take 1 cent a gal lon, or $3. Now it wants 1V4 cents a gallon, or $7.50. The old radio having worn out, Mr. Citizen also is going to buy a $100 radio, on which the tax was $10 but is now $11. Mr. Citizen could have fig ured some more increases, be cause congress boosted by 10 per cent most of its other ex cise taxes, like those on auto mobiles, tires, oil, club dues, tome toilet preparations, and refrigerators. How much more he will pay In tobacco taxes depends on whether he is a cigaret smoker and, if so, the number of packs he uses. Congress Upped the cig aret levy one-half cent per pack, or 23 cents per 1,000, leaving other tobacco taxes unchanged. Favor Bulb Treatment. Washington, June 24. (IP) The senate approved without objection Saturday a resolution directing the secretary of agri culture to require treatment of all imported narcissus bulbs. Luihn Reappointed. Salem, June 24. lP)J, H. Luihn, Portland, chairman of the state public welfare com mission, was reappointed today by Governor Sprague for a four year term beginning July 1. Wantt! Wantt! Waatl! Don't Buy Any Car Until June 26 More Than $60,000 Stock! 200 Super-Reconditioned Used Car, Trucks, Trailers and Tractors Must Go At PUBLIC CLOSE-OUT SALE Watch For Our Big Announcement Up to I I discount en all units. The most beautiful and most complete stock la the entire NORTHWEST. $30 to $130 off on each car to meet our immediate de mands. No matter what you want we have It. Be sure to prepare yourself to take advantage of one of the BIGGEST SACRIFICES in Medtord HISTORY. Don't forget lt't a complete public clot tout tale. HELP WANTED 3 Ail-Around Let Boys, on salary bails. Local residents preferred, to assist during rush. ALSO S Honest Reliable Auto and Truck Salesmen. Strictly commission bails. WE GUARANTEE No competition on prices, terms or trade-in allowances. Splendid proposition for experienced men that can qualify. See Mr. Rhoades, Salet Mgr. AUTO SALES & LOAN CO. Cor. 4th and North Riverside. Actor Back From Wars -ft ; Aclor Hobert Montgomery, the Western front, it shown York from Lisbon on the trans F. R. HALTS SALE OF SPEED BOATS Washington, June 24. (IP) President Roosevelt called a halt today on negotiations for sule of 20 swift "mosquito boats" to the British. A White House statement said the president had decided to stop the negotiations as soon as he had received an informal opinion from Attorney General Hobert H. Jackson that transfer of the motored torpedo boats by an American builder to a belliger ent government apparently was prohibited by an act of 1017. Arrangements had been made, tentatively, under which 20 mo tor torpedo vessels being built by the Electric Boat company for the United States navy would have been retained by the build er for sale to the British govern ment, with the United States taking delivery later on im proved vessels of a similar type. KLAMATH COUNTY HAS HEAVY TEN-YEAR GAIN Klamath Falls, June 24. (IP) Preliminary census figures give Klamath county 40.308 in habitants compared to the 1030 total of 32.407, Katherlne G. Nel son, district supervisor, said to day. , Suicides on Ferry. Bremerton, Wash., June 24. (IP) Deputy Coroner William Steltz said Miss Adelaide (Peg gy) Bebb, 27, attractive employe of the federal alcohol tax unit in Seattle, shot and killed her self aboard the ferry Kalakala shortly before It berthed here at 10:30 o'clock last night. Miss Bebb returned a month ago from Washington, D. C. erstwhile ambulance driver on above as he arrived in Mew - Atlantic clipper. FOR NEW RECORD The temperature today left no doubt about summer being here. At 2:30 p. m. the mer mury had spurted up to 98 de grees where It was two higher than at the same time yester day. There was a fair chance it would top 100 for the first time this year. The temperature yesterday rose to a maximum of 99 de grees to lead the whole state. Hood River came in second with 93 and Roscburg third with 93. Yesterday's maximum here was one degree below the highest for the year to date. Official forecast was for fair weather tonight and tomorrow, cooler tomorrow. Wapinitia Crash Fatal The Dalles, Ore., June 24 (IP) Harold G. Ames. 35, of Port land died early Sunday In an automobile accident on the Wapi nitia highway. Four others, all occupants of the same car, were injured. The party was bound for the Deschutes river on a fish ing trip. Weather ' Northern California: Fair to night and Tuesday but overcast on the coast and scattered thunderstorms over high moun tains Tuesday; little change in temperature; gentle variable wind off the coast. 123 to Take Law Exam. Salem, June 24. (IP) About 125 law school graduates, larg est number in many years, will take the state bar examinations in the legislative chambers here July 9 and 10, the supreme court said today. T Y PARTY'S RECORD (Continued from rage One.) Inee, got tome cheers; to did Governor James of Pennsylvania and Senator Bridget of New Hampshire the last two are candidates. Rapid Fire Order In rapid fire order, the con vention gave formal vestments to credentials, rules, permanent organization and platform com mittees. Then the delegatei trooped back downtown where the Ulk of Wendell Willkie of New York for the nomination was going full blast. From the headquarters of Sen ator Taft of Ohio came a state ment attributed to Samuel E. Boyt of Plymouth, Ind., Willkie't native state, which said "Willkie won't suit a lot of Republicans." He listed two reasons that Will kie was a former Democrat and that he it a utilities man. Boyt is newspaper editor. The first gavel crack came at 10:17 a. m. (EST). Chairman John Hamilton ordered delegates to be seated and instructed the sergeant at arms to clear the aisle. Few paid any attention. Landon Cheered Alf M. Landon. 1936 nom inee, was given an ovation by the Oklahoma delegation as he walked up the aisle to the Kan sas section. One delegated shout ed: "You're liable to be the nominee before we get out of here." It quickly developed that an important battle of the conven tion would be a contest between the air-conditioning system and heat-dispensing battery of lights suspended above the mid- u.e oi ine nan. ceaaea dtows 7 """" "Km I would win. The noise of bands seemed to loin on the side of the lights. The convention convened three-quarters of an hour late after Hamilton finally obtained order and asked the entire aud ience to rise while they sang America. The assemblage standing while the Rev. Albert Joseph McCartney, pastor of the Convenant First Presbyterian church of Washington, D. C, prayed that a "spirit of charity" preside over the convention and that it be dedicated "new upon the altar of our nation's wel fare." Among Friends Mayor Robert E. Lamberton welcomed the convention to Philadelphia. He told the dele gates that "from a political viewpoint," they would "be among friends." "The city," Lamberton said, 'has not elected a Democratic mayor within my memory and Pennsylvania In that time has elected a Democratic governor but once." The convention rushed through the routine formalities of approving the temporary roll E -4 lb NIFTY. E H ? Easinc the soldiers' burden, Uncle Sam in troduces a new jacket. It weigh 1 pound. 9 ounces, against 3 pound, 2 ounces of the old jacket, or simple design, it's made of water-repellent cotton twill, lined with flannel. of deeRates and electing tem- porary officers, including Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota, as temporary chairman and key note speaker. Stasscn's keynote address will be heard at to night's session. Mrs. Alice - Roosevelt Long worth, tall, smiling broadly, at tired in black, offered one. a Bridges became the first can remained... . .. . . uiudie wnusc name was iiich- tioned in the convention when he was called to his feet to offer another. When a recess was taken at 11:29 a. m. (EST), until to night's session at 8:30 p. m., when the keynote address will be heard, the horseshoe-shaped galleries still were only half filled. Busy Too. Indianapolis. iJP) It was a busy week for the John F. Gil lespie family. Two daughters were graduated Joan Frances from grade school and Theresa Jeanne from high school. The resa, 17. end her father, 50, had birthdays. A third daugh ter. Marguerite Josephine, got married. Closing tlm0 for Too Lata to Clu tltjr Ads la 1:30 p ni. TO THIRD OF SIZE (Continued from P On.) ing fierce French resistance in advancing toward Grenoble and Chambery directly opposite the Italian border. Britain Protests Britain held that France't ca pitulation to perman terms would put her in passive alliance with the reich and the British government said it no longer could regard the Bordeaux gov ernment "at the "government of an independent country." The Britith declared they would deal with the French na tional committee formed in Lon don by General Charles de Gaulle. However, Informed diplomatic sources in London asserted Brit ain still maintained diplomatic relations with the French gov ernment in Bordeaux and with the French ambassador in Lon don, Charles Corbin. These informants said Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, British ambassador, had left France be cause the German drive had put him in danger. One German column was re ported to have encountered "lively fighting" 31 miles south west of Lyon. Another south bound German drive down the Rhone valley was reported near Culoz, 48 miles east of Lyon. The German terms, as report ed by the British government, include German occupation of more than half of France, em bracing all the rich northern in dustrial portion and a wide strip covering all the Atlantic coast; Internment of the French navy, and dissolution of the French army. Support for Britain Britain announced she had re ceived pledges of support from the French colonies of Syria, French Indo-China, the Camer oons, Tunis, Morocco, Jibuti and Senegal. They will get British financ ing so they can carry on the fight against Germany, it was said. A large French army Is con centrated In Syria and many units- of the French fleet are with the British naval forces at Alexandria, Egypt. Whether they and others will accept orders to proceed to French ports for Internment remained to be seen. A British newspaper com mentator said enlisted men of the French navy and many of ficers favored joining the Brit ish or scuttling their ships or plunging into a death fight with the Germans rather than yield to internment. 1 He asserted, however, that In recent days a number of such warlike officers had been re placed with "safe" men who would give up the fleet. Women college graduates did not suffer seriously from unem ployment during the depression, a survey shows. At Sivlls famous roadside restaurant In Houston, Ttiu tber tra lOOsmiliof f.rlt who fry yon nnd they will tall you that Cbtttcrficld It the ei(trtt tbtt t atiitm thou lands ol ooMttoeoit touriitt. . '.w-.fj. Aw l. '"jk. -sirs Alaska Clipper Brings Letter For Robinsons Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Robinson of 836 Taylor street were today in receipt of one of the first let ters to come from Juneau, Alaska, by airmail. The com mercial air service between Se attle and Juneau was inaugu rated last week and the letter to the Robinsons came on the first return flight from Juneau. The letter was mailed in Ju neau by the Robinsons' son, Phil, who it on vacation trip by steamer to Alaska. The envelope, bearing the imprint of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, was to be put on display at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. MINER CONFESSES SETTING BIG FIRE Grants Pass, June 14. Three hundred firefighters closed- in on the upper Chetco river's 2000-acre blaze today by mountain trail and airplane while Michael John Braden, 27, tigned a statement admitting setting the fire, enforcement of ficer Lee Blevins said today. Blevins, Siskiyou national forest representative, said Bra den it a prospector from Scran ton, Pa. He was held in the county jail here on a vagrancy charge. Supervisor Edward P. Cliff, predicting the fire .would be corraled tonight, announced that the new Cave Junction for est service airport was initiated Sunday to supply the fire fighters who toiled eight hours on foot through the mountains to meet the advancing blaze. An airplane dropped two tons of supplies to the crews by parachute. NEW DINING ROOM IN TOWNSEND QUARTERS A well-appointed dining room has been installed on the mez zanine floor of the new Town send hall at 423 East Main street. Dinner will be served in the new dining room from 5:30 to 8 p. m. Tuesday. Wader Drowns. Salem, June 24. (IP) Ernest Caldwell, 16, Portland cherry picker, drowned while wading In the Willamette rivpr near West Salem yesterday. The ac cident was not witnessed but investigators said he apparently stepped into a deep hole. Dm Mill Tribune want ads. Notice To The Public . I have rented the corner ttore in the Hotel Allen to Mr. D, J. (Bud) Lawrents for the puroote of continuing the business of the Unique Cleaners. He has been connected with this business many years. I have known Bud personally a long time and believe he is worthy of any support you may give him. He has cash and carry and pick up and delivery service. New Phone 481. E. T. ALLEN. FOR COOL MILD GOOD SMOKING CHESTERFIELD IS sold just say "Chesterfields please" and you're on your 7 way to complete smoking pleasure . . . always at your service with the Right Combi ttation of the world's best ciga rette tobaccos. Chesterfield's blend and the way they burn, make Chesterfield America's Busiest Cigarette COFC OFFERED ASHLAND IN Jackson County Chamber ol Commerce today mailed a letter to the Ashland Chamber of Com merce offering full cooperation in Ashland's annual Fourth ot July celebration July 4, S and 6. At the same time the cham ber of commerce here announced it was communicating with ser vice clubs, fraternal societies and lodges and business firms In an effort to Induce them to enter floats in the Fourth of July parade or otherwise take , part in the procession in tuch-i a way at to keep their identity distinct. The chamber offered to assist anyone desiring to take part in the parade. Anyone needing as sistance or information may tele phone the chamber, 63. Proud Papaya Raiser Sunland, Calif.. June 24. (IP) Harry Dahlce proudly plucked papayas from his orchard of 100 2-year-old trees today and said he wat the first to rata . tha tropical melon out of doors irw this climate in marketable qtunv ', . titles. . ii-?: ;rr - r Ml ! Your Vacation ' I" Will Be a Sue cess. It just has to be, if you'll spend it at "I m m J, III rt. Mountain, Butt County a, CtliforeMl Richardson Mineral Springs Excellent Hot.l, Moali and Cottage rlMlth ' Rcrtki4i n "AT YOUR SERVICE'' Anywhere cigarettes are Crnifct 14. Lawctm Mi wt f mvm C
