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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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 ', .
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