Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current, February 26, 1943, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextHERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Fobrunry 26, 1943 PAGE TWO MOUSE MULLS REDUCTION OF NGDME TAXES (Continued from Page One) for a 23 per cent reduction this year. Meet Again After yeiterday' vote, the majority of the committee decid ed to make a 10 per cent cut ap ply this year, with an il.62 cut to start next year. Debate on this and the minority report was to start at 10 a. m. today. :l But when that hour arrived, the committee left the house chamber' to- meet again, the majority deciding to make the 11.62 cut start next year, and forgetting about the 10 per cent cut this year. April 1 Deadline The majority (aid that since 140,000 of the 165,000 income taxpayers last year paid an aver age tax of only $11.80, it wouldn't be worth the trouble to refund them an average of $1.18. Refunds would be necessary tinder any program effective this year, because any income tax cut could not become effective until June. April 1 is the dead line for filing income tax re turns. . ; ' '.' The house refused to accept senate amendments to the house bill to provide for quarterly payments of income taxes, which bow are paid only annually or semi-annually. Banking Group . Votes Costs Into Farm Prices ' (Continued from Page One) Honed against yesterday In the senate. -, ; ..... Barkley spoke in connection with the 78 to 3 senate approval of a bill to prohibit the deduc tion of government benefit pay ments in setting price ceilings on farm products. - The house bank ing committee also endorsed a similar bill today. Pool Open 1:30 and 6:45 2ND FEATURE SMITH OF Dow emu t 1iM md HU 2 Socko Hit! NOW ! ARNOLD . HARDINQ . Rrrn r i it Filmutlcal Fun FestI fcifKAIJOIlIt A i) riuAAh ll A sj f . 1 INEW TODAYJJ IS BROWN . f l mm j f will f J rntfi . I Potatoes SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. " 26 (AP-USDA) Potatoes: 1 Color ado, 3 Idaho, 1 Nevada, 1 Ore gon arrived, ' 0 unbroken, IS broken cars on track; market steady; no sales reported. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26 (AP- USDA Potatoes: 3 California, 5 Idaho, 1 Oregon, 1 Nevada, 1 Texas arrived, 2 unbroken, IS broken cars on track; by truck, 1 arrived; market steady; no sales reported. CHICAGO. Feb. 28 (AP. USDA) Potatoes, arrivals 60; on track 90; total US ship ments 821; old stock; very light. no trading account .light, carlot offerings, market demoralized; new stock, supplies light, demand light, supplies moderate, market about steady; Idaho Risset Bur banks, US No. 1, $3.90; Wiscon sin Cobblers, US No. 1, 52.50; Florida Bliss Triumphs, US No. 1, $2.75 per bushel crate, $2.75 85 per bushel basket. MacArthur Clears Way for Assault On Salamaua (Continued From Page One) allied fliers scored four hits on an 8000-ton vessel, believed to be a seaplane tender, and saw bombs explode near three cargo ships. Other planes attacked tne town of Rabaul and the Vuna- kanau airdrome and strafed enemy flying fields at Gasmata and Cape Gloucester, New Brit ain. On the Burma front, RAF planes flying from India carried on their steady offensive against the Japanese, shooting up enemy river craft, railway trains and towns. Fresh reports on the Japanese attempt to raid U. S. air bases yesterday in Assam,, India, dis closed that American fighters positively or probably destroyed 29 planes and that only nine of the total 46 enemy aircraft were sighted heading back for home. Pray Appeals for Wage Boosts for . State Police SALEM. Feb. 26 (JP) State Police Supt. Charles P. Pray ap pealed" to the joint ways and means committee today for sal ary increases for his men. Pray said he. has lost 70 offi cers in the past year to the arm ed forces and to war Industries. The original bill would have increased privates from $160 to $200 a month, and other officers would have been given similar increases. The ways and means committee trimmed the increases in half. NOW! A SMASH HIT! f ' 'vstarrinf V vL din rtin?i :i u. taw, hiwiii 6 EXTRA! "Frankenstein's Cat" Color Cartoon "Community Sing" SEVEN BOMBERS MISSING AFTER T (Continued from Page One) tored bombers roared over northwest Germany, where they could find large U-boat building and industrial targets, only a few hours after the RAF night shift struck a smashing blow at Nuernberg in southern Germany where dieset motors and other submarine equipment are manu factured. Their attack came a little over 24 hours after other American bombers from the Mediterranean area had raided Naples at the southern end of the axis. That the Americans were keeping the offensive going was indicated even before the official announcement when the German radio told of aerial forces strik ing from a high altitude this morning. The preliminary official an nouncement said the American attack was heavy but did not mention specific targets. OBITUARY EDWARD RAY FREUER Edward Ray Freuer. a native of Klamath county, Oregon, passed away in this city on Thursday, February 25, 1943, at 5:30 a. m., following an Illness of one month. He was a native of Bedfield, Poe Valley, Ore gon, and at the time of his death was aged 57 years 9 months and 10 days. Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Bertha Wag ner of Calgary, Alberta, Can.; one brother, Francis O. Freuer of Pee Valley, and one nephew. W. Edward Freuer also of Foe Valley. He was a member of Poe Valley grange No. 710. The remains rest in the Earl Whit lock funeral home, Pine street at Sixth. Notice of funeral to be announced at this time. 'CABD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends for their many acts of kindness and lovely floral offerings ex tended during our bereavement. We wish to especially thank the members of the Masonic and, Elk lodges. ;: J. M. Baker, Jr. 1 V. W.D.Baker ' ": Charles Baker. Continuous . Hurry - Lost Day! Shows -fc -ft Tomorrow LLOYD NOLAN From , Tme To Kill" M 1:00 P. M. -k . Sr ilaMiqiinqq iamniiniw : TOMORROW ONLY! 2 First Run Action Hits Another Mighty All-Adventure Show-Sensation! with bang-up fighting... hell-bent-for-leather rldin' . . . and rip-roaiia' 1 . i 5 - I (1 A BLACK - VI MARKET CZAR! - ' Exchangfno iKJy f human livts far Extral ilj flisj V S 3 Stoogat . vjLPI . Comadr . IN ! VI t ; , J jack Larue vJ n Anti-Gas Chamber W J A": This soldier Isnt bagged by the Army nurse, but Is demonstrat ing a new protective against liquid gas. The covering may be packed into the little box held in the nurse's hand. L ITUTI01 SOUTH BEND. Ind, Feb. 26 VP) Judge Thomas W. Slick of the northern Indiana U. S. dis trict court today held uncon stitutional the delegation of rent control powers to the office of price administration. In dismissing a tenant's suit against a South Bend landlord, Judge Slick said in his ruling that "congress never intended to delegate this omnipotent power (the right to arbitrarily fix rents at certain levels) to the adminis tration of the OPA, and if it was so Intended, the act, under such construction, is unconstitution al." The decision was given in a suit filed against the landlord, Dick M. Johnson, by a tenant who alleged Johnson charged $10 more a month than the rent al lowed under the act. First fort In Idaho was built by David Thompson. It was called Kalispel house, on Lake Pend Oreille. President Andrew Johnson was a tailor for seven years be fore he learned the alphabet. and "Shining Victory'.' with Ceraldine Fltsgerald rhythm! i- i , JOHNNY MACK BROWN TEX RITTER . FUZZY KNIGHT NAZIS FORGED OM WW TUNISIAN GAP (Continued from Page One) warplancs as they retreated from the mountains onto the long flat roads of the plains. Harold V. Boyle, Associated Press correspondent at the front, reported that during the height of the advance, American Infan trymen did not even bother to take their Italian prisoners to the rear. One group of Italians, he said, came over a hill with hands up and waving white handkerchiefs, whereupon "our boys disarmed them, threw their guns away and waved them on back to the rear." Man Who Wasn't There Was Only ( Loser in Shooting RATHDRUM. Ida:. Feb. 38 W) The only loser In a pre dawn shooting argument today was I. A. Wiginton of Spokane, who wasn't even present. Night Marshal Bill Howell said he surprised two men at tempting to force entrance into a store and they fled when he ordered them to "halt." He fired three shots, one of which blew a tire on the fugitives' car. Intercepted by the sheriff's deputies from Coeur d'Aleno as they bumped along on the flat tire, the men abandoned the car and took to the hills. Howell said the machine belonged to Wiginton and had been report ed stolen last night in Spokane. FUNERAL EDWARD RAY FREUER Funeral services for the late Edward Ray Freuer -who passed away in this city on Thursday, February 25, 1943 following an illness of one month will be held in the chapel of the Earl Whit lock Funeral Home, Pine street at Sixth, on Tuesday, March 2, 1843 at, 1:30 p. m. with the Rev. A. Theodore Smith of the' First Presbyterian church of this city officiating. Commitment' serv ices and interment family plot in Bedfield cemetery, Poe Valley, Friends are invited. NEW TODAY SI am tti mm aVMMMl 3 AMERICAN SHARPSHOOTERS ring the bell at Hons Kong! fffjlt' l.TflTl I ind Thrllllno Hit lr The Shocking Story of a Wars-Wolf . .. Sinister'. . Amasing . Supernatural! mm is! Added I First-Run a VHitsj ht,i,..i fCJ Tl"lll,l jr$eJ5j7 ' l XlVfflHt' 1 'MdA U. S. Bombers Lam bast Japs in Kiska, Solomons (Continued from Page One) esa positions at Vila, on Kolom. bangara Island. Fires were start ed In the target area. "(B) Liberator heavy bombers (Consolidated) attacked enemy positions at Kahili and at Falsi In the Shortland island area." The raid on Kiska was the latest in a series of attacks de livered against the Japanese base in the North Pacific with In creasing frequency In recent weeks. Some authorities here considered it significant that no enemy resistance was reported. Powerful Jap Air Force Maintained in Manchuria, Report WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 VP) Testimony by a high-ranking army official that the Japanese still maintain a powerful air force In Manchuria "opposed to the Russians," was disclosed to 75 City Simultaneous WORLD Starts SATURDAY MIDNITE iff .WE KNOW WHAT 3 ill Oo DO TO WOMEnU I fr WHO ARE WOT fV FIT TO BE NAZI Wf I W MOTH E RS !" JJ Jjp li Nazis from the 1 Vjvv """ cradle to t h e jy 55 hb M$B$im fflffiffi) IjffiSMS I GRANVILLE . W 1 4llO?ZZA TIM HOLT . V "S( : SMITH TTS n ;...S2Jl: 1 otto 'Mr- -&1Q8&X K"w ft; i-1 . . . - . " ' : day In a printed record of sen ate commlttoe hearings. MuJ. Gon. I. H. Edwards, as sistant chief of staff of the war department, the hearings dis closed, told an appropriations subcommittee he had only "rough ostlmates" of Japanese air strongth. Uniform Maximum Retail Prices On Meat Expected OMAHA, Fob. 20 (IV) A. L. Erlkson, head of the meat sec tion of the food price division of OPA, today informed Harry Cof fee, president of the Union Stockyards company at Omaha, that the OPA is about rendy to release uniform maximum retail prices on meat. Livestock call ings will not be Invoked unless all other measures fall, Erlkson added. Coffee, In a telegram to Price Administrator Brown last week, urged that equitable and uniform retail price callings be estab llshed on meat In order to elimi nate the black market. E (Continued from Page One) switchboard operator; Ray B, Warnor, stockroom dark. Stenographers Marlorle R. Comer, Lllliun D. Davis, Vir ginia L. 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