Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 18, 1940, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1940. EMPLOYMENT TAX TREASURY'S TAKE Receipts for Fiscal Year In creased Over $150,000, COO Says Revenue Bureau Washington. July 18. J.R Increased receipt! from em' ployment taxes, which include federal levies on common car rier and social security assess ments, were mainly responsible for a rise of more than $150, 000,000 In the treasury's tax collections for the fiscal year 1940, the Internal revenue bu reau said today. Receipts for the year, treas ury figures showed, are S3,' 339,983,823, compared with 83, 181.573,932 in 1939. Employ ment taxes rose to $833,321,' 224, an Increase of $93,092,305. Customs receipts, consisting mainly of the excise tax from imported malt liquors, rose $2,- 209,175 to reach $27,727,807. while corporation Income taxes jumped $2,011,167 to $1,124, 551.968. Postoffice receipts from the sale of documentary1 stamps climbed $314,351 to $3,676,639, while miscellaneous receipts un der the revenue tax heading totaled $2,384,072,335, an in crease of $121,358,218. Individual income tax re turns declined during the year from $1,028,033,706 to $979, 104,556, while excess profit tax revenue dropped to $18,333, 839 from $27,056,732. WAR TRADE WAITS Portland, July 17. Mayor Joseph K. Carson of Portland commented today "real salesmanship" would be necessary to bring war defense contracts to Oregon. "There is much business to be had in Washington from the big appropriations but Oregon manufacturers must get busy nd see what Washington wants so they can get their share of It," the mayor said upon his return from the capital. "We must go back there and sell our materials." Carson acknowledged pub lished reports that friends had advanced his name for the forth coming vacancy on the mari time commission but denied he had discussed the matter during his visit with the president. Mexican Autoists Short of Gasoline Hermosillo, Sonora, Mex., July 18. OPy This Mexican capital of soma 16.000 inhabitants found itself without gasoline for Its automobiles today. Blaming the shortage on the government's distribution sys tem, the newspaper El Pueblo remarked: "Now that the oil Is curs, we haven't any." "We'll see If there Is any change if and when the reorgani sation program is adopted," the newspaper continued. ' ANNENBERG IS DENIED LIBERTY ON PROBATION Chicago, July 17. P) Fed eral Judge James H. Wllkerson today denied M. L. Annenberg's petition for probation. Annenbcrg is under sentence to serve three years In prison for violation of the income tax laws. The court also denied a mo tion for a six week's extension of Annenberg's stay of execution. it f 1 ISCAP I-Happy to "get away from parachutes," Gene, vleve Lawson. British tlrl who came to U. 8. for "duration of war," shows her toy from Eng land parachute doU. GAIN INTERVIEWS AT EMPLOYMENT OFFICE Portland, July 18. (Spl) Ef fective this week, young men and women who seek place ment on the NYA out-of-school work-experience program may apply for interviews at offices of Oregon state employment service as well as in NYA of fices established in various com munities. Ivan G. Munro, state NYA administrator, announced that assistance by the employment service In receiving NYA ap plications has been arranged in order to accommodate an "in creasing volume" of youths who wish to obtain NYA train ing and work-experience. Munro said that under NYA eligibility rules for the new fis cal year, which opened July 1, applications will be accepted from all youths between the ages of 18 and 24 Inclusive, who are In need of employment. work-experience and training." Work-experience projects which will operate during the coming year will lay "strong emphasis," he said, on training youths in basic mechanical trades considered "vital to na tional needs." MAGAZINE BUYS 3 MORE STORIES BY MRS. RUG Three more true stories writ ten by Llleen Remking of 23 Washington street about local cases are scheduled for early publication in Life Story maga zine, it was announced today. Nature of the stories was not revealed. Second In a series of stories by Mrs. Reinklng appears in the August issue of Life Story which was placed on sale at Medford newsstands late last week. The large original sup ply of the magazine was quick ly exhausted and arrival of a supplemental shipment was an nounced yesterday. The story in the August issue appears over the name of Isobel McCoy and it tells of her dra matic life with hold-up man who committed a number of armed-robberies here before he was arrested by state police and sent to prison for ten years. He resided here with Isobel during the hold-up period and she accompanied him on his stick-ups. Isobel'a story reveals the thread of unusual circumstances that wound her up in a life of crime. Before meeting and Im pulsively marrying Fred Mc Coy when she was only 16, the girl had attended school at Brownsboro and Central Point i EAST ! RIDE UNION PACIFIC FAMOUS TRAINS 1 ALL AIR-CONDITIONED Washington, July 18. The National Youth Administra tion allocated today $26,240,281 to finance NYA student work during 1940-41. Officials said the allocations would furnish part time work for about 500,000 needy stu dents between 16 and 24, in clusive, to enable them to con tinue their education. They said $12,509,161 would be used to provide employment for second ary school students, $13,731,120 to provide employment for col lege students. Allocations by states (first figure for school work program, second for college and graduate work program) included: Oregon, $86,382 and $168,- 343. Quints Give Ambulance North Bay, Ont., July 17 (J1 T h e Dionne quintuplets are donating an ambulance to the Canadian Red Cross. ? 1 fraa rtUow mi Portmw 0rwa tm CmpAm llrHmlliw-City of Port land. 5-aalllnga monthly, 6:30 p. a., en 1 it, 7th, 13th, 19th, 2Sth. No uln fan. Portland Rata 38 p. m. dtllr Paallla Urnltad ;00 a. . dallr 2 World's Fairs as low asl L$0 round trip In CoachJ raver atfamaf a araoarWnaaa far Hmtliul Parana. drtalla. rnniult SOI TlirRN P.U'IKIC AtifcNT, or Writ J. C. tlMMIMI. C1ES. r.S!i. AGENT, IMt- tock Work. Portland. for BRITAIN HAS 16,300 IN INTERNMENT CAMPS London, July 18. (Ft- The. government announced today "some 7.000" male civilian In ternees had been sent overseas and "some 12.500 men and S.800 women of enemy nation ality or stateless but formerly German or Austrian" now are Interned in Britain. CONVENIENT , ttOMFOITtllE I tCONQMICM DON'T DELAY! THIS OFFER POSITIVELY ENDS SATURDAYJULY 20 Here's A Chance To Own A TYPEWRITER ON RENTAL TERMS Don't neglect your touch typing this summtr. REBUILT TYPEWRITERS ALL MAKES $22.50 to $65.00 10 Down and 10 par Month. No Carrying Charges. All machines carry new machine guarantee. Office Stationery & Supply Co. The lesson Isobel learned, all too late, is told poignantly by Mrs. Reinking, her narrator. The first of the aeries of Life Story dramas by Mrs. Reinking was published in the March issue. It was about Alice Ves tal Miner, the Ashland girl who was kidnaped by her uncle and lived with him a number of years before she was able to escape. The stories show that Mrs. Reinking has a keen under standing of the drama and the emotion of unusual lives and the ability to make her insight vivid in word and effective in presentation. Boston, July 18. (JP) Mem bers of the crew of the Dutch freighter Zypenberg, arriving to load scrap metal for United Kingdom ports, asserted today that Plymouth, England, and Pembroke and Cardiff, Wales, had been devastated by almost continuous nazi bombing planes and that many ships had been sunk in British harbors. The Zypenberg was among Dutch vessels taken over by the British ministry of ship ping after the German invasion of Holland. Officers and crew criticized treatment they said they had received. They said they had been given a 50 per cent wage reduction, and had been forced to operate unarm ed in dangerous waters. SHOWN FOR ALL ' EXCEPT LAKE CO. Portland, July 18 (P) Pre liminary census figures, for all but one county, released Wed nesday, put Oregon's 1940 pop ulation over the 1,000,000 mark to 1,079,237 compared with 953,786 for 1930. Figures by counties for 1940 and 1930 counts, exclusive of Lake county which has not been reported to the census super visor, follows: 1940 1930 Baker 18,259 16,754 Benton 18,607 16,555 Clackamas 56,846 46,205 Clatsop 24,248 21,124 Columbia 20,689 20,047 Coos 32,341 28,373 Crook 3,310 3,336 Curry ' 4,394 3,257 Deschutes 18,634 14,749 Douglas 25,622 21,965 Gilliam 2,830 3,467 Grant 6,354 5,940 Harney 5,358 5,920 Hood River .... 11,534 8,938 Jackson ... 35,843 32,918 Jefferson 2,039 2,291 Josephine 16.239 11,498 Klamath 40,366 32,407 Lane 59,020 54.493 Lincoln 14,457 9,903 Linn 30,465 24,700 Malheur 19,756 11,269 Marion 73,128 60,541 Morrow 4,340 4,941 Multnomah ..355,436 338,241 Polk 19,855 16,858 Sherman Tillamook Umatilla Union Wasco Washington Wheeler Yamhill Wallowa 2,328 12,200 25.979 17,672 13,178 39.042 2,961 26.289 7,618 2 978 11.824 24.399 17,492 12.656 30,275 2,799 22.036 7.814 Totals 1,079,237 853,786 Bill Aids Schools Washington, July 17. JPh President Roosevelt aisned to day legislation (S29) authorizing the use of government buildings within national parks and mon uments for elementary school purposes. HAS FULL ROSIER With 108 men and boys In camp, the Boy Scout camp at Lake o' the Woods i running at full capacity. The camp, now in the middle of its third period, will operate until Au gust 4 when it will be turned over to the Girl Scouts for a two-week encampment. The fourth period opens next Sunday and according to word from the Boy Scout office In Medford, there ia room for about ten more scouts in that week from July 21 to 28. The lait week, from July 28 to August 4, Is about two-thirds filled at present. In addition to the usual camp and its facilities, 15 scouts and leaders from Jacksonville, un der direction of Charles Hofer and Jack Hamilton, are camp ing on the campsite, doing their own cooking and participating in part of the usual camp pro gram. A group from Ashland under T. J. Norby will conduct this type of troop camping dur ing the last week of the season. fmrninM Iff re picnics... . J Im MOT ONE UTTWofjCi FULL CLASSES Goes swell with a hot dog! Rots! Crown has won 9 out of 10 certified tutc-tests against lead ing colas from coast to coatd Try a bottle. Learn war It's so popular. EST BY TASTI-TEST1 LOST RIVER DAIRY, 1723 No. River.ide Phone 323 4' trl 9 ftlOltfl icithout U The life we lead, the work we do, the pleasures we enjoy are mate rially influenced by what's going on in the world. It's only natural, therefore, that reading the news paper should be as much a part o everyday life as eating and sleeping. Most people, as a matter of fact, can't get along without it . . . and practically everybody reads a news paper every day, not only for the news it brings, but for the interpre tation it presents, the pictures it prints, the entertainment it pro vides, the advice it offers.- Small wonder that the newspaper should be the forceful, profitable advertising medium that it is. Small wonder, too, that today, when the news plays so important a part in people's lives, the newspaper is an eventnore vital and profitable ad vertising medium than ever before THE BUREAU OF ADVERTISING AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIA TION OF WHICH THE MAIL TRIBUNE IS A MEMBER o r SOME THE ADVANTAGES OF NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING WtA tweapr a&mrtsig yrv cot. .. 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