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I SECTION TWO- Society night at arena. Two charming ladies WE RECOMMEND For the highlights of the or hotter District golf tournament road Frank Lillich'n story on rage 9 today. j. Sea page 6 113TH YEAR ROCHESTER, N. SATURDAY', JULY 28, 1045 -iiVjiiJ toxj XJAM -Seen and Heard' FORT OKITARin AMP actcd a vcad II wniYH nri w-w I I Restrictions Irk Colony of 900 Refugees 7 ill.

GREATLY EXAGGERATED THREE DEAD, 1 WOUNDED IN WAR LIST Sergeant Loses Life in Action On Mindoro 'T'HK most ilistinjruisliPtl spoctntor at anj' of the performances of the I i tr i Urol hers liarnum and lSaiN-y circus, when it playcl Washington, I). earlv in tlie ea- nn, was Georjre C. Marshall, general of the Army of Adults Worried About Where Their Future Will Be Passed By KAN WALRATH Oswego What kind of people are these 900 individuals who in habit the Emergency Settlement, Fort Ontario, at Oswego as guests of the United States? Visitors looking for some special thrill in walking among a colony of European writers, artists, publicists and statesmen won't find it. They're like people in Rochester or any other city housewives, children, mothers of servicemen, beau tiful, girls and plain ones, bril SECOND OF A SERIES liant and aver age, fun-loving youngsters and serious ones, pranksters and dullards, hard- working and leisure-loving folk, quiet ones and show-offs. The other afternoon when the weatner was breathlessly hot.

some of the children took the law into their hands and dove into the lake fori a swim at a forbidden bathing place, supposedly polluted by sewage. Mothers strolled with baby carriages and older people visited under the shade trees. Fathers were at their work aa gardeners on the grounds, physicians in the hospital, editors and writers in th settlement's newspaper office, and clerks and cooks and teachers were at their jobs too. Many Professional Workers They are Yugoslavs, French, Ger- mans, Czechs, Italians, and, mostly, jewibn. it tnere are more professional men nnH -ummnn 1.

average colonv of 7no because fV, iZT' trr" l. su L. 1 there are no longer homes in de vastated Europe. There's no way now to decide the status of babies born in the Fort Hospitai. There are 11 little citizens of No Place.

Amonc the refugees are parents of 19 men serving in American armed forces and parents of 39 in Allied armies Restricted In Work or persons who have never had busy careers, tuc inability to get out and work is discouraging, and a situation not lightened by the gibes or letter-to-editor writers amonsr the American neighbors who complain in one breatt-: "Why don't they worK 'ihey w.nt our Jobs. While those critics are said to be Clca.r!y he. "'-'ty. their out clearly in he "LHten, Mr. Inspector.

I don't want that cheese. I don't like cheese. You can have it. Won't you have it? It's smelling up my car something terrible." "Oh, no, think you," the inspector protested, "it's your chesse. I won't think of denying you such a lovely cheese.

Please sit down and well figure things out very quickly." He figured first the amount of the fine imposed for trying to smuggle the cheese into America, added to this the duty on it, the whole coming to $28, or $8 more than the cheese had cost. Then he said, with a gracious smile, "There's still the matter of ration points. The red points for the cheese will be 256." 'But where can I get that number of points?" was the anguished cry. The inspector's expression wa pleasant but inscrutible. "That," he said, "is something about which I haven't the faintest notion.

The only thing is, you BETTER get 'em." Then the party, in legal possession of its consolidated curd of milk, was permitted to depart, and tooled home, its members' immensely sobered by their over-zeal for cheese. And at home the misery of the party increased under the hard necessity of begging, borrowing, and wheedling red points from the wives of its respective members, each of whom immeasurably preferred lamb chops or even a kidney stew to a whole wheel of cheese. But presently the required number of red stamps was procured and dispatched to a ruthless and unmerciful customs man stationed on the American side of a great bridge leading from the Dominion of Canada. I WENT out Saturday night to the Batavia Fair Grounds, bombastically, and senselessly re-naried Batavia Downs according to the most authoritative lexicographers, being a tract of open upland, often undulating, and covered' Hostility adds to the doubt: or any other on the face of the uiope neia lor them before they wt-ie rescuea Dy the late President Koosevelts executive order. U'P niUj i T.l..

'I in iiaiy juhi a iT fr iJLLl If Typical barracks in which European refugees live in Fort Ontario at Oswego, top. Below: Renata Rothschild, 3 years old, shown with her mother, Nettie, and baby sister, Grace, is looking a little sour because she has just been inoculated! Grace was born on American Independence Day in 1944. 2,500 Laid Off Since June 1 In Warplants of Rochester CITY BUREAU RESURFACES 44 STREETS Works- Chief Lists 33 More on 1945 Program Pavement repair forces of the city's public works department have completed the resurfacing of 44 streets to date this summer, Public Works Commissioner August H. Wagener reported to City Manager Cartwright yesterday. This leaves 33 streets etill on the 1945 program, Wagener said, but with better weather now in' eight than was experienced in the early part of the year, completion of the program virtually Ls assured.

The program is financed from a $950,000 appropriation iij the 1945 budget. Wagener said the program had advanced somewhat ahead of schedule despite a shortage of men and difficulties In getting materials and repairs for equipment. In addition to the resurfacing program, Council has authorized reconstruction of pavements in certain streets where old pavement have disintegrated beyond repair. Under such special authorization. Goodman Street North is now being paved over the (Short stretch from Main Street East to the New York Central tracks and the J.

Hunger-ford Smith Company plant. This short stretch of street formerly was paved only in the Faraday Street, between Park Avenue ahd Harvard Street, wa completed vesterdav fnn Park the previous day. Seward, be ing resuriacea it entire length from Bronson Avenue to Genesea Street, has been comnletoH fmm Genesee to Magnolia. A beginning un me resurracing of Field Street between Monroe Avenue and Wilmington Street, is slated for Monday. Paving matcrlala for this year's program, as last year's, were purchased from materials dealer as the city asphalt plant in Scotusville Road was closed for the duration of the war.

Utility Picks 2 Directors Two men of Ionir m.ri.n the telephone field in Rochester, both with the Rochester Telephone Corporation and with the old Rochester Telephone Gnm yesterday were elected directors of the corporation. They are John W. Morrison, chief engineer and vicepresident of the utility, and Frank T. Byrne, its comment superintendent and vicepresident. lumouon or the two men by the board of directors nounced by John P.

Boylan, presl- ui-fu. ionowing a meeting of th board. Morrison is a native of St. Louis, Mo. and a graduate of St.

Louis Manual Training School, and his first job was with the Union Electric Light and Power Company of St. Louis. He later was purchasing agent for the Wesco Supply Company of that city. In 1904 he entered the telephone field with the Kinlock Long Distance Telephone Company of St Louis. In the spring of 1906 he came to Rochester as engineer for the Rochester Telephone Company arid when plans were formulated consolidate that company with the New York Telephone Company he was chairman of the consolidated committee and as such supervised the physical joining of the two companies.

With the merger which took place in August, 1921 ne was named chief engineer of the new corporation. He a elected a vicepresident Mflrot, 1935. He is a former Dresident the Rochester Engineering Society and a member of the American In stitute of Electrical Engineers. Byrne is a native of Rochester and a graduate of the old Fr Academy. He entered the employ oi ine iw York (Bell) Telephone-Company in 19O0 as a telephone in staller in thi scity.

Two years later ne worked on the switchboard and was appointed wire chief of th former Chase exchange. In 1903 he left the New York Telephone Company for a position in the switchboard department of the Rochester Telephone Company. When the two were consoidated he was appointed commercial superintendent of the new corporation, which position he still holds. He wis elected a vicepresident Mar. 1, 1935.

GI in Italy Killed In Truck Mishap A Rochester soldier was killed ln a truck accident in Italy July 2 as he was waiting assignment to come home. He was Sgt. Richard G. Tucker. 31, son of Mr.

and Mrs. George Tucker, 507 Meigs and husband of Mrs. Pluma McPhee Tucker, 123 W. Ivy Eas. Rochester.

A graduate of Charlotte High School, he was employed at Bausch Lomb Optical Company before hi entered service In March. 1941. Ho was sent overseas with the 411th Ordnance Company In August, 194.1. Besides his wife and parents. leaves a slater, Mrs.

Jack RoRein, Rochester. About 2,500 employes, including 1,500 women and 1,000 men, have been released by Rochester warplants since 1 urv-dUM- vl cuioacKS ana terminations of contracts, the AVar Manpower Commission reported vesterdav A wnm the united State-t, who entertained two or three small relatives in a ringside box. States, The Marshall party naturally was given very high grade attention by the circus people, and at the conclusion of the performance the dapper, courteous, and eminently punctilious Fred Bradna, equestrian director, was detailed to escort the General and his youthful companions from the grounds. Solicitously attempting to guide General Marshall around a small, stone-filied hole in the lot just outside the circus tent, Mr. Bradna himself stumbled into the hole and suffered a sprained ankle.

He limped on courageously to the General's car, waved the party cn its way, and dropped down on the grass to nurse his swelling ankle. A physician pronounced the ankle temporarily unfit for use, and Mr. Bradna regretr fully left the show to recuperate at the home of a friend named Scholer, who has a wide acquaintance among circus people, and who is the proprietor of an undertaking establishment in, Binghamton. The news that the popular and well known Mr. Bradna had suffered an injury on the show lot was soon in wide circulation, and another friend of his, a man named Miller, telegraphed to the circus to ask Mr.

Bradna to come and stay at his home until he was well enough to carry on. An answer was wired in these words: "Fred Bradna gone. At Sender's in Binghamton." Knowing that Scholer's in Binghamton was an undertaker's establishment, Mr. Miller assumed quite logically that Mr. Bradna had suffered a iatal accident, the report of this was quickly in circulation, and soon Ella Bradna, the equestrian director's wife, who had remained with the circus, was the recipient of innumerable messages of condolence from all parts of the country.

When Mr. Bradna was advised what was happening, he replied in the words of Mark Twain that the report of his death was greatly exaggerated, and that he would soon return to the show, which he did, even before it made its Rochester appearance; at which time, as usual, he was entertained by those inveterate circus fans, Charles C. Hall and Alvah G. (Griff) Strong. 'JTHIS thing of trying to beat the law, absurd or not though the law may be.

that regulates the sale of food, and, for this purpose, leaving the matter of ethics out of.lt, can be expensive at times. For example: With sugar reported selling in the black market for from $18 to $25 per 100 pounds, one fellow of whom I know prided himself that he had engineered a bargain deal when he got a bag for $15. Gleefully he carted it home and in due course opened it. There was sugar all right enough, but only in the top two or three inches of the bag. The rest was salt, worth about 85 or 90 cents a.

hundredweight. Now the lawbreaking purchaser is bemoaning what "crooks will do to 3-0U," but for reasons best known to himself he has not reported the matter to the proper authorities. 'J'HEX there in the unhappy experience of a group of local angler, who. before leaving the Ontario fishing grounds, pur chased a wheel of Cheshire rheese. put it in the rear locker of their car.

and started gaily back to the states. Stopped at the far end of the bridge, over which they had proceeded to the American side, for the routine questioning by a custom official, who asked if thpy had anything to declare, the disciples of Izaak Walton, perhaps in a moment of forccl fulness, answered that they had nothing neept the fish they had caught The inspector sniffed ominously. "Open up the back of the car," he ordered. It was done. The back of the car smelled high, rich and very cheesy.

"Ah, ha," said the custom's man, exulting like a gourmet, "cheese! Who owns it?" The driver and his passengers looked at one another but were as silent as Trappist monks. Their tacit disavowal was accepted in good part by the official who. however, made his owr decision. "Since," said he, to the driver, "the cheese is in your car. I must go on the assumption that it is your property.

Will you kindly t-p jnto the officp" In the office the driver aid, 1 War in the Pacific theater claimed the lives of two more Monroe County soldiers, according to casualty reports yesterday. A third, previously listed as missing in action over Germany, is now presumed dead, while fourth soldier was wounded in action on Okinawa Sgt. Lawrence Teall Killed on Mindoro SSgt. Lawrence Teall, 28, whose wife, Mrs. Helen Murphy Teall, lives at 381 Genesee was killed i action on Mindoro Island in the Philippines July 15, his wife has learned.

A a ua te of West High School, he was 1 a i ng small parts in Broadway plays when inducted in June, 1943. He went overseas in January, 1945, after train TKAI.L ing at Keseler Field, as a tail gunner. Besides his wife, he leaves a brother, Charles Teall of Rochester. A memorial Mass will be said at 9 a. m.

Monday in St. Monica's Church. Lt. Frank A. Lone Presumed Dead Lt.

Frank" A. Lone, 26, only son of Mrs. Magdalene Stolte Lone, 219 Michigan previously reported missing in ac tion over Germany since July 18, 1944, is now presumed dead. his parents have learned. A graduate of Jefferson High School, he was 1 yed by Bausch Lomb Optical Company before his 1 i ptment in the Air Corps Reserve in August, 1942.

He was called to auty the following- February. He went overseas in March, 1944. with p. unit of the 15th Air Force and' was a pilot on a B-17. He had! completed 30 missions over territory before i yi i 1 1 naa brought down over southern Germany.

He had been awarded the Air Medal with three clusters and held a Presidential Citation. Besides his mother, and his father who lives in New York City, he leaves a sisterf Mis. Krnest Schlegle, and two nieces, all of this city. On his discharge from the Aimy he hod planned to marry Alice Do Bree, his fiancee, 450 Pullman Ave. A Mass will be said at 8:30 a.

m. Aug. 14 in Holy Apostles Church. Continued on Page Fight 3 Join Marines, Girl Enters WAC Amelia G. Kelsey.

150 Devonshire Ct, enlisted in the WAC yesterday. The Marine Corps sent three 17-year-old youths to Parris Island lor training. They are: Richard L. Sally, 237 Orchard Raymond F. Boccaccio, Albion, and Herman J.

Polle, Honeoye Falls. THE WEEK- CPL. AND MRS. 1944, LaMachia and his outfit were pushed into, action almost immediately as the Allies sought to flatten the Ardenne3 bulge. Joe was captured Dec.

18 and was imprisoned in Camp 4-B at Gotlitz in North Central Germany and "at four or five others I hardly remember." Liberated in April minus 52 pounds (his weight dropped from a normal 160 to 108), he returned to the States June 10. Despite a back injury which requires strapping and a corset-like harness whenever he swings a golf club, Joe came right hack to his Locust Hill chores when his furlough started July 11. He's been busy teaching and readying the club for the dint riot tournament ever alncc, finding all in A JKANK A. (J V-'-V .11 ii i in i ii area GOP JUDICIAL UNIT TO MEET The Republican Seventh Judicial District Committee will mjjt at Republican headquarters, 403 Union Trust Building, at noon Wednesday to fix the time and place of the judicial district convention. Call for the meeting was issued yesterday by Carroll M.

Roberts of Pittsford, chairman, and William G. Staudenmaier, Fifth Ward, cnairman and secretary of the dis trict committee. ueiegates to the convention, to be elected in Tuesday's primary election, will nominate two Su preme Court justices. Both Just'cefl William F. Love of Rochester and Earle S.

Warner or Phelps will be renominated although neither will fill out the full 14-year term, if re-elected, because of the statutory requirement fixing 70 years as ie-tirement ge. Lnder the election law, the con vention must be held between Aug. 7 and 10, both dates inclusive. Memorial Arranges For Sergeant Lynn Memorial services will be held tomorrow at 4 p. m.

in Bethany Presbyterian Church, Stone Road and Dewey Avenue, for Staff Sgt. Keneth J. Lynn, son of Mr. and Mrs. EdwaiI Lynn, 47 Almay Greece.

Sergeant Lynn gave his life in action in the European theater on Jan. 29, 1944. His wife. Eleanor Ainsworth Yynn, lives at 1243 Long Pond Rd. rpflinH rhnli worA iean4 rn in come tax returns for 1943, he said, adding that "present indications are that the number of refunds this year will exceed 20,000,000." Commissioner Nunan said the bureau gained "much experience" in the handling of refunds last year resulting in new procedures "which will make it possible for us to complete the 1944 refunds many months sooner than was the case in the prior year." "We are overlooking no possibilities to improve our procedure and accelerate the refunding operations," he said.

"Obviously." the commissioner Hdded, "considerable time and effort are necessary to process the returns, type the schedule, and draw the checks Incident to the payment of'ovcr 20,000,000 refunds." with fine turf) by the promoters of the current harness meeting, whispered with and buzzed about mm in the paddock who knew the horsemen, knew the horses so well that they talked to them, like frat brothers, and came away a 60 cents winner, after long periods of strain and anguish. And with our party was a Withe young woman, who didn't know a standard bred horse from a wooden one on a carrousel who said, "III this one to win, he's got a name like my took the next one he-cans he had siwh a curly tail, and two more because of some equally absurd idiosyncrasy, left the park with half a yard of money, and a conviction that getting greenbacks from the mutuel machines is as simple as wrenching a stick of peppermint candy from an Infant in a crib. It just didn't seem rleht. -or just, or decent 4 CLUB HEARS ITHACAN Phelps Phelps Rotarians at their weekly meeting heard Dr. Erl Bates of Cornell University.

Ithaca, tell of Ind ian trontina on1 life in area. early times tn the Phelps MAN AND WOMAN OF refugees whether this coun. earth will ever offer permanent refuge and re-! neace of mind to "'c The majority of the Oswegoans have been "magnificent" in their attempts to make iife more pleas ant for the refugees, according to ritipn fri.n. citizen xneres a story, for instance abmit how the townsfolk refrained from Duying umbrellas and raincoats from Hmitcd merchandise, available in local stores, no that the refugees could buy There have been other demonstrations of hospitality on a community-wide scale that can be told about later. When a year ago the 500 refugee families arrived, the barracks that were to be their homes were barren excepet for chairs, tables, stoves and beds, and here was a mixed-up group of people, strangers to each other for the mof past, set down in one lump to get along as best they could.

Own Community Created hi a year iney nave made a community of their austere fort with its shabby frame dwellings. iney have established a newspaper, me Ontario Chronicle, edited by Dr. Arthur Ernst, former Paris publisher. They have a church that used for Christian and Jewish services, and a svnasoeue for the orthodox Jewish families. Art, writing and study go on.

Children attend the public schools of Oswego. Children are born at the fort hospital staffed by four refugee physicians. Art exhibits are staged periodically. There are libraries and vocational shops. With scraps of this and that the housewives have made the bar racks cozy.

They were aided by the National Council of Jewish Women, who bought material for 2,600 curtains that were sewed by the members in Rochester, Syracuse and Utica. With heavy cardboard and a couple of yards of sugar-bag muslin, one of the colony's artists recreated the atmosphere of a Con tinental studio in her two-room apartment with cracking walls and rusting stove. "It's nice, she said, her eyes sweeping her little worm percnea the very shore of the lake. "But shall be glad to be free. I should lie to know what I can do for myself in this country The most imposing sculpture in apartment was a monument of "Victory," which she hopes to ex hibit one day in New York.

Children Inoculated In the hospital there was much commotion the other afternoon. Because of a case of scarlet fever, quickly moved to isolation in a Syracuse hospital, all the children were bebing inoculated. They took process with indignation and the building to mothers waiting outside with their arms outstretched. In each forearm was a tiny reddened circle. Each had had initiation into another of the trials of childhood.

Mothers, just like any mothers world over, smiled and chided comforted the outraged young; ones and promised them cookies when they got home. One of the mothers, Mrs. Israel Rothschild, who has three children, was waiting at the hospital with her year-old daughter, Grace, born on Independence Day, 1944. Because it was only five days before their ship was to sail for America, the child was given the mo.st blessed name that came to parents' minds. Visits into town to shop constitute the chief contact of the adults with the ways of everyday American people.

Tomorrow's article will attempt to explain how they get along together. AUTHOR, EDUCATOR DIES Fair Lawn. N. J. iP) Wil-lard W.

Waller, 45, of Radburn, author and associate professor of sociology at Barnard College. New York City, was stricken fatally with a heart attack in a New York ubway elation Thursday night. ifH4 inuepenaence Day Tf t. A. common; .6 au JS a concern that gnaws continually over life bevond i gnaws continually over life beyond lIley uvea tor just a year.

Are they to be sent! to another country or will they be set tree to make homes in Amer ica? While Congress debates the issue, they live with their hopes, they work and study in their shore-land "Nowhere" bordering Oswego, in a state half-prisoner and half-free. For only six hours of each day may Fort Ontario's guests experience the sights and sounds and habits of that United States of America that lies just beyond the gates of the settlement. Thev are allowed to travel no more than 20 miles away. Unable to Make Visit In that restriction, slight as lt may appear, lies most of the diffi lna culties of that life within sight of 11Dertv- There no chance to live with sons and daughters whose homes are as near as, say Rochester or Syracuse or New York. Even husbands and wives in one or two cases have been separated Dy the gates of the fort.

There's a physician, for instance, whose wife is working in New York to support two children, while he, capable of earning a living, is confined to the fort with the prospect that he may have to leave the country and re-enter under a visa to join his family. There's a 16-year-old boy a foster home in Chicago, whose father lives in the camp barracks. The refugees at Fort Ontario are at present a people without a country. Until Congress acts to free them in this country or to send them to some other country where they may obtain visas under the quotas of their native lands, they must remain at the Fort No one knows how lor.ft that will be. When they were selected to come to America, all agreed to return tola their home countries, but for manvl Tourney JOE LA MA CHI A order after Ina's capable supervision.

Keturns to Job Sept. 9 Joe will return to duty Sept. 9, but until then, he intends to continue his home front morale building efforts in the Locust Hill jshop. Then Ina will again take over until her husband is home for good. The LaMachias, who live at 315 W.

Elm East Rochester, will be feted by their Locust Hill friends at a Monte Carlo Night party, preceded by golf competition, on Aug. 18. The Man or Woman of the Week is chosen by a board consisting of the editor, managing editor and city editor of Tho Democrat and Chronicle. mil fj is on I her the fled his the and the ic jjnector ixusseii McCarthy expressed the personal belief that the period of heavy cutbacks is tapering off. Pointing out tnat mass terminations since June were a natural result of victory in Europe, he added that this week only 60 persons in the area were laid off because of small contract terminations, in contrast to the 200 to 400 being laid off weekly in ather weeks since June 1.

McCarthy, who said he knows or no proposed large Bcale cutbacks for the immediate future, said the cutback prospect is an unknown quantity, wholly contingent upon the progress of the war against Japan. He pointed out that the city's B-29 program, for example, has reached its peak, but there is no indication it will be cut, so long as the big bombers are needed to participate in the stepped-up air war over Japan. mere are still plenty of lobs available for women, said McCar thy, but not in war industries and not at the wage rates the women nave been receiving. There is still an urgent need for male labor in Rochester, he said. -aiany women, McCarthy said, are seeking jobs as inspectors in warplants.

where they can earn from $30 to $45 a week, but such jobs are rapidly disappearing. Other jobs offer less money. TAX ROLL, COMPLETED Perry Assessors have filed their 1945 assessment roll for the Town of Perry in the office of the town clerk where it is now available for study. Reuben Clark, chairman of the threeman board of assessors said town valuations were only slightly above last year's figure. The final gure will not be set until after grievance day next month.

Couple Guides Golf f-. I Rogers Assured Tax Refunds To Be Speeded to New Yorkers Freed War Prisoner Returns to Pro Job Chores Meet the Man and the Woman of the Week: Cpl. and Mrs. Joe LeMachia. Locust Hill Country Club golf professionals who are run the machinery of the current Rochester District Golf Association championship tournament and its 93-man field.

Corporal Joe, liberated from a German prisoner of war camp only last Apr. 12, is spending his 60-day leave back in harness 'literally Locust Hill, directing goinng operations at the host club. And Mrs. LaMachia, the former Ina Liddell, who, with her brother, George Liddell, has carried on in Joe's golf shop since he entered the Army July 2, 1943, is her husband's "chief of staff." The LaMachias are an institution at the Jefferson Road club, Joe having been a fixture there since it opened in 1927. Long assistant pro under Frank (Silk) Callahan and Wilbur Nagel, he assumed charge of the Locust Hill golf shop in 1940 as one of the most popular pros and ablest links teachers in the district.

Golf Pros Scarce When the Army beckoned Joe in '43, golf pros were scarcer than cigarets are now. So, with the unanimous approval of Locust Hill folk, Mrs. Joe picked up the reins and cflrried on so nmoothly it was sometimes hard to believe Joe wasn't cn the scene. Arriving overseas on Nov. In response to a plea frem Representative George W.

Rogers of Rochester, Joseph D. Nunan commissioner of internal revenue, yesterday at Washington assured Rogers that refund of over-pay ments on 1944 federal income taxes to New York State residents will continue as rapidly as possible, the Associated Press reported. On July 16 Rogers, 40th District representative, wrote to Nunan saying he had received many com plaints of delay from taxpayers who want Uncle Sam to return them excess taxes taken from their pay on the basis of withholdings. In response to Representative Rogers, the tax commissioner xaid the luii run's first experience In making refunds on a laiRe scale was in 1944. More than 16,000,000.