Monday Morning, October 4, 1943 THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Tune In on KRBC PAGE FIVE Higher Taxes Bill To Congress Today WASHINGTON, Oct. 3--(AP)--he administration will ik Congress tomorrow to put the so-called luxuries of life- such as liquor, beer, pop, gum, tobacco and travelling--on an all-out war footing, by unprecedented increases in tax rates. By these rates, to be proposed before the House ways i i-i » i , ·ind means committee by |OU/C rlOO IM/37I Treasury Secretary H e n r y JCYlJ I H/G Hutl Morgenthau, the tax on one Camp Movement would be drink of liquor 12 1-2 cents. Thus Is a part of the administration's program to add $10,650,000,COO to the present annual revenue collection rate of $38,239,000,000. It will embrace suggestions for sharp Increases in individual and corpor- ^.Uon income rates ns well as In excise taxes. Of the $10,650,000,000, the Treasury would refund $3,560,000,000 to individual taxpayers aft- ter the war. After preliminary discussions with i'lorgenthau, members of Congress today outlined the administration program ss follows: 1. I.V1JKIIXMI. INCOMES-Kates to be raised so'as to produce an adltlonal ?G,CIO,COO,000 '^J annually, including the postwar refundable 53,560,000,000. The present 20 per eent withholding levy against the taxable portions ot wages and salaries would be graduated up- ·, ard, possibly (o a rate of 30 '·· per cent for some Incomes. The Individual exemptions for married persons would be pared from $1,200 lo $1,100; exemption for . single persons would remain at $500; and depcnd- ·^ enls redued from $350 to $300. The Vltory lax would be integrated In the regular Income tax. 2. CORPORATION INCOMES-_A rise in the rate from 40 to 50 -iier cent, calculated to bring in an additional $1,110.000,000. 3. RAISES IN EXCISES (THE DOLLAR REPRESENTING INCREASE IN REVENUE):-Distilled spirits (from $6 to $10 f gallon) -- 4473,000.000 (figuring *80 drinks to a gallon this would be 12 1-2 cents n drink). Beer « to 10 a barrel) -- $210000,000; Wine (10 to 50 cents a gallon, for the lower potency group; increases ,'Jalso for the fortified groups) -- $60.000,000; Cigarettes ($3.50 lo 55.00 per thousand -- no differential as to sizes) ~ J371,000,0«; Cigars irates thus far unexplaln- ' -- ?6S,OCO,000; Tobacco "(smokinf, chewing ' ·nd snuff -- 18 to 34 cents a pound) -- $47,000,1)00; General admissions (10 per cent to 30 percent) -- $292,000,000; Cabarets (5 to 30 per cent) -$82.000,000; By JOHN' H. CQLBUEN STOCKHOLM, Oct. 3 -- VPi -Hundreds of Jews who preferred to risk being shot to death by German patrols along the Danish coast rather than be deported lo Nazi labor camps poured into Sweden today as Adolf Hlller'i antl-serolUc purge In Denmark fanned Swedish feeling. Skirmishes and bloodshed were reported when a few Jews rcsbt- ed arrest, in Copenhagen, and others were pursued through Jutland by squads ol Gestapo men. Tlie deportation of Danish Jews to Germany and Poland started from Copenhagen yesterday is the Nazis Ignored, at least temporar lly, a Swedish government offer to provide haven /or 8,000 oJ the 10.000 Jews whom the Germans blamed for the military oppoei- tion to German occupation of what once was Hitler's "model protectorate." Many Jews arrived in Sweden in roiiboali ind (Isblnf smacl» after eluding Ihe reinforced German patrols which.wete ordered to shoot none try lag to escape. It was estimated that it l«at 1,100 have reached Sweden since rumors of the purge swept through Denmark a week ago. The Swedish government predicted in a formal note to the German foreign office In Berlin that "serious repercussions" would be felt In Sweden, »r,d feeling ran high. Sweden, now strongly mobilized and In a better position than at any time In its history to back up words with force If necessary, already had officially expressed, al- pathy for Norway by halting traffic of German troops and war material on Swedish railways between Germany and Norway. She followed up thrse mcu- ur« by banning on Oct. 1 the movement of fuel oil -- z vital German military store -- on her railways to other countries. The Danish News service reported last night at least 1.600 Danish Jews had been rounded up so far by the Garmans. Jews arrested included babies and persons to the age of 80. Even Jewish home for the aged iras rild- ed. FORTRESSES ENROUTE TO GERMANY--A formation of Flying Fortresses is shown on it \vay lo a bombing raid on Stuttgart, Germany, froni a base in England. This picture was taken during the raid by Frank Schcrschcl, Life photographer on assignment for the wariime still photographic pool, who rode in one of the Fortresses on the mission, sitting between he pilot and co-pilot in the plane that ran out of gas on its return trip and crash landed 11 miles inland in Southern England. GERMAN FIGHTERS INTERCEPT FORTRESSES -- Two German Kock-U'nlf ISO's (circled) are seen under the propeller of the Winning Run, one of a group of Flying Fortresses which mndc n hombiiiR mission from England over Stutl- gurl, Geriniiii.v. The Winning Run made a forced landing a f t e r the raid on a small English field, M miles from the channel const when (he gas supply run out and Ihe vngincs ii'cut dead, Nothing in Sight to Promise More Civilian War Gasoline By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE Associated Fr»s Science Editor WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- There isn't any gasoline production now In sight to give the motorist more gas during this war. As prospects stand today, gas for civilians could become moie scarce. It Is even possible that tires of synthetic rubber could become plentiful before there Is gas additional enough to use them fully. These prospects are for the whole country, not for any special region. Regional gasoline supplies may vary, but the national pool, for civilians, Is getting low. The biz fids behind this are first that war has taken over the fasoline resources that civilians tare up with rubbtr rationing, and that there are or.lr three mays to jet more gasoline each of these three ways Is, during w»r, either slow or doubtful. The three are described In » report in the Journal of Mining and Metallurgy by Harry C. Wiess, president of the Humble Oil and Refining company. He is chairman ot Ihe transpartatlon committee for Districts 3, Petroleum Administration fo.- War, and a member of the general committee for District 3, Petroleum Industry War Council. District 3 Is Texas, Louisiana, New -\fcxlco, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Western Florida. One way to get more gasoline Is oil. The second source of more gasoline is to import more crude oil. The shipping situation makes this doubtful, especially so lor civil- Ian gasoline. The third way is to diEcover new oil welli. Discovery of new wells has been 'declining for about 20 jrars, become alarming in the last two years. On the bright side is the fact that the drop does not necessarily mean our reserves are coming to an end. Recently there has been a shortage of materials and man power. For a longer time, oil discovery' has been slowed by rising taxes and dwindling profits, the latter due to oil pricfts, greater e.v- penses of drilling and necessity lor drilling deeper. Shackelford Begins Collection of Taxes ALBANY, Oct. 3 --(Spl-- Tax paying time started Friday, with state, county, school and city taxes due. Rolls have been completed anil approved, and the tax cokctors are receiving payments. Statements were .mailed last week to taxpayers. Taxes are payable between October 1 ar.d January 31 if the full Alert in London LONDON, Monday,'Oct. 4 --W, Air raid sirens sounded In London late last night and British antiaircraft guns went Into action. It was the second alert In the capital in as many nights. Alter a half-hour alarm, the all- clear sounded early toJay. JAPANESE- (Continued From page One) Jeclivcs. Salamaua, most southerly of the three, was the first to be laken. It was Invested Sept. 15 by Joint forces. Lac, 20 miles farther north.'was enveloped Sept. 16 by air-borne, forces moving down the Markham valley lo the northwest and sea- borne troops landed on the shore of the gulf 20 miles to the east. Tlie same pincers operations then was applied against Finschhafen, 60 miles east of Lae, and that anchorage and air station was overwhelmed Oct. 2. General MacArthur said that the campaign was supported strongly by a concurrent cross-country ad vance through Interior Kew Guinea In the direction of Madang Itself. Where Do Allies Hit Enemy Next? By HAROLD STBELTER Associated Press Staff Writer T.ikln» .1 cue tram Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who came [way from the Pacific war front, warning against overly optimistic war reports, grab your dark-colored glasses and have a look at the map. Finschhafcn, New Guinea, has mid-August, American troops occupied sirens positions on Vella Lavella island. That put a Japanese garrison, estimated at 10.000 men, at Villa on the south shore of Kol- ambangara between New Georgia and Vella Lavella. Day a f t e r day, torpedo bombers and dhvebcmbers havf blasted Vila's gun positions. Its supply dumps, its fuel dumps. Its airdromes. Tills past week. Ihe Japanese have shoifn signs of ruliiallan lh.it their Vila position Is hopeless. And there also jtill are Japanese on Veil* Lavella. All this slow progress in an are: no closer to Ihe Philippines at tru nearest point, Finscnhafen, than 1,800 statute miles. During the past week, Allleu planes flew up to Wcivak where approximately 500 Japanese plane have been wiped o:it since mid August--and ran smack into a for mstlon of the enemy's new No · type lighter. The attacking force denlt Wewa! more punishment but the return ing filers had only praUc for thi ability ot the enemy's Internptlni airmen. Tlie enemy's big Kahili slrbase 01 the southern part of Bougainville ii the Solomons also has been geltlni the We wale treatment. Yet the tat esl raiders continue to run Intc swarms of enemy planes. The Japanese lie Id possessions such as Celebes, Borneo, Timo.- Ceram nnd the lesser Sunda Islands have suffered nothing more than sporadic air raids. But the fall of Finschhafeii, giving -MacArthur his third New Guinea air base in less than a INTERPRETING THE WAR NEWS By ELOOX C. FAY Associated Press War Analyst (Xvaslonally Dr. Paul Joseph ioebbels lapses Into the truth. The N'azl propaganda minister old the German people yesterday, n talking abo-.it Allied air raids, "iu "vf must reckon upon etvttt clback In the future." Raids dur- ng the past lev week, he said, have slackened became of adverse 'father. Improved weather Is only one of he factors which will niake Ihe Joktor's prediction came true. First nmoiig tlie others is ihe ·leady day-by-day, growth ot At;- S.o-Atr.erlcan bomber power. Along vilh that factor land In t largo r.oasitrc because of In there Is a corresponding deterioration of the N'szLV defense against attack from the skies. While Enjhnd-based raiders Eive the western «nd central cii«ny - territory continuous poundings, new bomber bases appear In captured Metlflerrxn- fan Islands and follow thr arrnirs north along Ihe Italian peninsula. The expanding Allied bomter power, the diminishing German air defenses and the closing ring of somber bases .arc existing facto:s which Ooebe's must reckon with. Perhaps he should give some attention, too, to recent reports from London concerning a forthcoming American-Brltfsh-Sovlet, staff dls- cuslon (n advance of the three- power diplomatic meeting. Any 'meeting of spokesmen for the high military commands of the three great powers Is certain to Include discussion of \:se and disposition of that formidable arm uf war, aviation. The Russians lo flute hive exhibited rto extreme enthusiasm over ihe value of the Anglo-American strategical bombing. Russia, like Germany, originally built her air force mainly for the. purpose of tactical bombing -- the hammering of the. enemy's actual flthtlnjr line and the. supply routtj it ami not very far back of the. front. Germany, unlike Russia, however, departed at one stage from the fundamental policy of tactical air war and built bombers for the specific Job of Wasting English cities and morale. Since the Allies opened their all- out atr bombardment of Nazi war plant cities, the Luftwaffe finds fishier plane defense even more vital than tactical operations with ground forces. R'lMla, however, had edlitred a bislc policy of tactical aviation, making comparatively few long distance forays. Except frer one in- star.cc, the good targets for strate- gical bombing have been far removed from Russian bates. Tr,i exception is Rumania and ILs oil fields, American borhlxjrs recently bal'.led their way over enemy territory to the ploesti fields where they knocked out 73 per cent iho refineries, but at heavy loss themselves. It seems possible, therefore, when the Anglo-American military chiefs sit down with the Soviet army men there may be some disposition on their part to inquire If Ru^ia might consider adoption of a sliateglcal bombing program. 'If ft LAST TIMES TODAY GENE TIERHEY GEORGE MONTGOMERY -IYNNBARI SCHNECK'S SHANGRI-LA 1l«!i SOUTH 1ST. Oni Block Eait Camp toikeley Bui Station CLEAN FUN POR SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS fUPPETOON CARTOON LETTER FROM IRELAND ( Parcunoiwi NOW SHOWING HOW LAUGH,