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East Side Tax Veterans Mature, No 3 Drive Ordered Jew Barrcks Chief Says men should Returning service State Income Tax Returns In St. Louis Count For 1944, Compared With 1943 And 1942 Here is a tabulated analysis of individual state income tax returns of St. Louis County residents Hied this year on 1944 income, The returns are classified on the basis of number, amount of taxable income and average ber. amount of taxable income and average headings "Incomr Group" represent taxable in total income minus personal exemptions and pros income minus personal exemptions andincome in each bracket. Taxable income is jor a sine and $2,000 for a married deductions allowed by laic.

NUMBER OF RETURNS. inot be considered a problem." 1 Income Study Shows Genera Rise In County All Group Gained In 191 I. AnaiU Of llVvoal From Capital Brig. Gen. George David Shea, new commander cf Jefferson Board Backs $1 Transfer Of Sanitarium An Irfemlve rnmna'en tn 1m.

aamonisneu "ir.u rover income tax evasions has been view. tnchrd in the East St. Louis area th A 1 -1 flu i IftCMASC Od OCCMAff "Sctne of the civilians. Truman and Kecretarv of the era! said. Monrenthau, ith much will be more of a problem than the; tMCOHf eoi.e.

i service men. of the investigation focused on pol-lUcsnns, gamblers and others as- 'Thrv have matured lot over intH in Ihp tin 0(lO OOO.a The Board of Estimate and Apportionment today approved a bill proposing to give the $5,000,000 City Sanitarium to the state for a consideration of $1. the usual legal requirement in such a transaction. fcUMt or ttTuN in ii4 et erinTaet OK I KOUP C0neO WITH OT A If 101 I 114 1. 1912.

AMOUNT. fin CUT. ir44 I94J. 39 973 38.1E6 3TS62 1.786 4 67 80.70 81 60 5 803 fi.2 5.250 628 11 93 1125 2 2E4 2 0C8 2 105 216 1Q 44 4 61 4 42 76T 734 765 29 3 95 154 157 440 425 483 15 3 53 0 0 91 J4S 98 195 48 48 S8 0 30 021 it 14 29 -4- 2 57 14 O.M 0 03 11 6 2 -T- 5 -r 83 33 0 03 0 01 41531 4rl7D6 40.397 5 84" 100 00 100 00 ghr.iblmg interest, the Star-Times there, I think any community to; wa. informed tociav.

solng to gam much by getting them To 10-man squads Internal back. revenue aaents h.ive been in south-! "Thi combat trx)Ds are our solid, 2.000 and under 2.0O to 5 000.. 5 000 to 'lO 000.. 10.000 15.000.. lsnoo 25.000 to; 000..

50 to 100.0C0-. Over $100,000 Reflecting Inctrircd mm -time prosperity. St. Louis County in general more last yeiir than durlnit This i shown by an analysis cf income tax returns tilri this year with County Assessor P-liii G. leaser's office on 1944 Income.

Total. A shown in the accompanying tabie. then uas an inrrease In every bracket, frorh those with tar-able income of $2,000 and iff to those with taxable income in excess of $100,000. not only in number A week ago today the alder-mante public welfare committee voted out the bill over the protests of Alderman Walter H. Toberman 14th Ward), who declared.

"I dont favor giving away a property." Under a suspension of the rulea. the Board of Aldermen could bring th measure up for final Dassace citizens. Tney are not iiKt-iy to oe disturbed by hard going. Heads Separation enter. As commander cf Jcfierson Bar-; racks.

Gen. Shea will have super-j vision over the separation center there. "We want the men to leave with a favorable imnression the ainsy." he emphasized. "Taere must be r.o unnecessary delay when they are TAXABLE INCOME. INCIttASt 0 DlCtASl I IN I'M 4 COMPftKfO WITH 141 j4i.

amount. rtn Cf NT. ecctNTr.r of TOTAL INCOME -1944 l4J. em Illinois the past two weeks inquiring into Individual luxury property acquisitions and other evicences of unreported income. A i.imilar Investigation In Spring, field.

resulted in collection of more than $422 000 in evaded taxes, the Star-Times was informed, and the East St. Louls drive i expected to "exceed considerably" the Springfield campaign. The inquiry will spread out from Fast St. Louis into many southern Illinois rntnmiiniri1 vhprp tram. 14.

iicoar cRoie. J2 V.A taxpayers but in the tutal amount nf thur tjixahle income. $2 000 and under. 5.000. This is In contract with the prevl- Brig.

Gen. George Shea 32.32 20.95 18 62 11.74 10.05 3 96 to 5,000 to 10,000 to 15 000 to 14 65 10.46 8.03 4- 1.22 r- 6 87 49 45 38 08 181.32 3.679.238 1.702.608 -t- 1.161.684 111.218 538,176 1.521.007 368.559 1,571,216 $20 617.618 16,051.193 14,834.674 9.705 9.159 846 6.336.582 1.839,404 479.105 ous year, when the or.Iy appreciable increase was in the lowest bracket $2,000 ami under lndicatina $25,112,450 16.279.487 14.469,571 9,126.221 7.805.562 3 075,612 967.861 866,529 discharged." $28,791,688 17582.095 15.631.255 9.237.439 8.341.738 4.506.619 1.333.420 2,437.745 15.000.. 25 000.. 50.000. headache because of tomorrow; otherwise it normally 32 59 20.35 17 69 1046 9 44 5 20 1 51 2.76 100 00 Back only a week from Germany he asked.

I there much talk of a would come up a week from 25 000 to higher earnings for taxpayers in after 17 montlis of overseas du third party? that group and decreased taxable ou.uoo iw.uw. income for individuals in the high- Over $100 000 "Vou knew, we got all our news on one little sheet of paper over Since Toberman's protest, other bling activities have been reported 111 from time to time. Huge gambling syndicates-, dice games and small iw oo siot-machine operations are known to be rooted in the east side, and -f $10,651,706 4- 12.06 there." he explained as the reason local opposition to the bill devel- Total $88,354,999 $77,703,293 $79,023,648 for his questions. joped. Henry S.

Caulfield. director iof public welfare, who estimated the AVERAGE TAXABLE INCOME. er brackets. Taxable income iv gross income minus personal ex- emptiom and deductions allowed by law. Higher Croups Spurt.

Reference to the table shows that INCREASE 4-1 OR DECREASE 1 IN 1444 COMPARED WITH 1S4S-AMOUNT. PER CENT. AVCKAGC INCOMt FOR EACH CROUP; 1S44. 194J. 142.

INCOMC GROUP. Gen. Shea took over the command at the post yesterday, succeeding! Col. Richard E. Anderson.

No new assignment has been rnnounced for Col. Anderson. In command, of the 19th Corps artillery. Shea invaded Normandy on Day plus four. His unit fought acrcss France and Germany to a crossing of the Elbe River, originally as part cf the First Army and then as part of the new Ninth Army.

Private in 1915. A native of Augusta. Ga Shea began his army career as a private in the engineer corps in 1915. He while the increase for 1944 w.is general, it was proporiionattly greater in the higher bracket than in the lower groups, and the bis- 2 000 and 2 000 to 5.000 -5 000 to 10 000 10.000 to 15 000 gest jump was the over-sioo. t- 9 4 2 133 2 19 2.63 3 22 -t- 0.32 12.13 53 45 4- 7.47 15 000 to 25.000....

i 62 41 153 327 592 100 8387 77.192 $124 653 3.057 7.047 12.687 18.770 32.330 63.427 239,552 $1,956 658 3.092 6.997 12.434 18.366 31-384 69.133 144 42i $1,660 720 3,051 12.10T 18.953 31484 60.746 221.513 $1,784 800 cfoun the so-called 'million their total business is reported to approximate $30,000,000 annually. Investigaior.s tre searching for evidences of exceSMve expenditures for luxury items and heavy cash property purchases which are not commensurate with reported incomes. V. Y. Dallman.

roHoctor of Internal revenue for the toid reporters in Springfield that the camcaign is not aimed only at the gambling interests, but that gamblers mieht be involved." He said that in the Springfield area six farmers had made total cash payments of $22,000 on unreported incomes after agents had inquired into their records. Harris Held, assistant to John R. 25.000 to 50.000..., 50.000 to 100.000.... aire" class. latter group rose to 11.

compared 0er $100,000 Total bill would the city approximately $500,000 annually in operating expense has received letters from the Municipal Legislation Committee and from James L. Ford. chairman of the Citizens Smoke Elimination Committee, urging the city receive payment. fcx the property. Today action by the board ct esMmate was unanimous.

Comptroller Louis Nolte and Aldermanic President Albert L. Schwetuer voting for the measure. Mayor Kaulmann. only other member of the board, who was absent, favors the bill, which would give to the state the responsibility of assuming charge of the Mnitarium's 3,700 patients. Toberman has pointed out that the city still would have to pay $6 per month per patient to the state.

He contended that what money the state would save by the transfer would be offset by increased taxes. Tit Automobile Is 1 3 Atca So Buy AO IF' When will you be able to buy that new automobile and new household appliance? The U. S. Treasury Department today released a -Reconversion Timetable" showing the prospects of consumers getting durable goods. Autmobiles 15 months.

Sewing machines Nine months. Vacuum cleaners Four months. F.lertric ranges Nine months. Thi information was released to convince hesitant war-bond buvers there is little reason to hold on to their cash in hopes of buying new durable goods shortly with six In 1943 and only two 1942. This represent an increase over 1943 of 83.33 in number of taxpayers, while total income in this bracket rose 13132'; from $866,529 in 1943 to $2,437,745 last year.

The 11 In the over $100 000 I War Graft I Continued frm Pacj Ox Only 81 Classrooms Available To Cut Teacher-Pupil Ratio was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1917 and advanced through the grades to a brigadier general in 1942." Gen. Shea will be joined later at the post here bv hL- wile and their 6 year old son, George David Shea. Jr. A lean, sandy-haired man who looks younger than his 51 years. Gen Shea yesterday reporters almost as many questions as they asked him.

"Will vou have an Industrial income: $419 146: misuse of fund, in the commission Schaefer. internal revenue division 1 chief in East St. Louis, said he did! not know -and it is not the prov-i ince of this office to say" whether Onlv 81 St. Louis public school and other forms of patriotic R41- $282 042: $213,584: $191 433: sent to by Comptroller ri 'classrooms are vacant ar.d theoret- and social wartime activities wnicn nvnilithle for use in reducing lit would be -difficult" to abandon. General" Lindsay C.

Warren any prosecution will follow the in- I 827. and $121,698. been ignored. the teacher-Duml ratio from the' It also was pointed out that the investigation Similarly, but to a lesser degTee. Aiken cited five ships, orisinally present 41 to 1 to the desired 35 to 81 classrooms not in use for any -Considerable evasion has been he said figures at tne isoara oi r-uut- acmut, chuci iuuhuwi i iuuhu, nc we are alter tne valued at S356.000.

which the number of taxpayers in the $25,000 to $50,000 bracket roe 48.f8:. and total income 49.45, while the numbers and income in the $50,000 to $100,000 group increased 57.14 and 38.08'i. respectively. Various Factors. tion offices showed toaay.

cumcmar, art wu-u iur mc nwi fuiseiers Decause every legitimate At least 175 additional rooms andtprt in areas west of Vandeventer taxpayer is paying the bills for the 250 teachers would be necessary to where school congestion is not chisekrs. Tax rates for honest realize the lower ratio, and school; a pressing problem. In congested could be reduced if this board officials admitted the areas east of Vandeventer there are cheating were stopped." chances of setting either in the virtually no vacant classrooms, it Many of the larger gambling in-near future were remote. was said. terests report their receipts accur- were sold by the maritime commission before the war for approximately $200,000 and then re-pur- chased after tlie war began for 'more than $3,000,000.

"All these things are indicative The teacher supply now is "at. The 22 Negro public schools have ateiy to avoid trouble with the fed- While various factors might en the bottom of the barrel." a school ter into the nicture. some tax ex- of what has been going on all i board spokesman said, and no facil no vacant classrooms and school erai government, out many eva-board figures show that it least sions are being uncovered among two rooms not listed as classrooms smaller gamblers and owners of have been pressed into service. There slot machines on wlnise operations are 16.555-Negro pupils who fill the 'no accurate check can be made. ities for increasing the number of classrooms are in sight.

There are now 267 classrooms in white schools being used for activi 22 Negro elementary schools to ca- perts say that earnings of execu-; through the departments of this tives and higher-salaried employes government in the last few years," of firms engaged In war work rose; Aiken said. last year account in part for Commentator Give Data, these Increases. Robertson said Fulton Lewis. In this connection, it will be radio commentator, had brought to noted by reference to the table group of senators "indisputably that the percentage of total documented facts" that warranted come of all groups was greater last 1 immediate senatorial invesigation. vear In the three brackets from He said Lewis" story "calls most ties other than regular course of pacity and beyond, reaching an av- film Victim S'liil To study ivork.

but the spokesman said erage pupil-teacher ratio of 45 to 1. it would be virtually impossible to The 49.982 white pupils are housed Ha ve Put Head Oil Rail convert many of these to purely in 108 elementary schools, and their educational functions. Some are pupil-teacher ratio is approximate- SPRINGFIELD. June 11 ly 40 to 1. ins Joseph Frank Bruno.

67, $25,000 up than in 1943. definitely for a re-examination of being used for child welfare ceu efft 0 01 Gf yJL I ig, VI was killed late yesterday by a north- At the same time, the number of all the payments, coniracis ana iv hich can be manufactured cheaper bound Alton Railroad streamliner taxpayers in the lowest bracket did nancial matters in general of the i not Increase as much last year as Alcan highway, the various Peart Invention 3IaV OOIYC in 1943 thp ficnir rwinr 4 V7 frr Harbor and Hawaiian contracts, tne last' vear snd 51 in 1943 ovpr Panama Canal contracts ana than old-style wooden vaults, a Police said witnesses saw the I high-speed differential for ma- man approach the tracks and put chinery used in clarifying liquids his head on a rail shortly before In the mining and chemical indus- the train stiuck him. Bruno had tries, and a one-piece steel under- been sitting near the tracks for i frame for treight cars. hours, the witnesses said. 'City's Smoke Problem 1942.

However, averaae taxable in- particularly for the various con Boyd's1 Dad will think so, too! come in this group rose 9.42T. tracts and work done on the Latin- Machinery which Its Inventor be-vindicates that employment IUd supplied In- the answerto the St Louis gams' among wage earners in this formation snowing that cast-plus- smokesless coal problem is in the group dropped below 1943 gains fixed-fee contracts had resulted in i process of perfection by Andrew F. over 1942, but that yearly individual contractors making a 36r' prof it Howe, widely-known Inventor who earnings rose slightly. and above the 4 fixed recently received $1,164,201 Irom the White Collar Group Lags. A contractor or third party does Commonwealth General Steel Figures on percentage of total tht.

Robertson said, by, leasing Castings Corp. in settlement of a returns, percentage of total in- equipment to the government at patent claim. come and average income show prices "fantastic almost beyond de- Howe said he was not yet ready the $2,000 to $15,000 brackets to reveal details of his new ma- whlch- would include many "white to'd of D-8 Caterpillar trac- chlnery. but that in general it collar salaried workers with pro-1 tors valued St $8,000 each when would cleanse waste products of porticnately smaller increases airnpw rented at $775 a month apiece Illinois mines, to such an extent along the line than other brackets "throughout the life of the con- that it would compare favorably In fact, averaee taxable income tract, whether the tractors are with the best types of coal. In these threV brackets overm! 1 kinf or not A npw tractor ls The 68-year-old inventor has been $2,000 to $15 000 income dronoed Paid or ev'-r' 11 Robert- busy since receiving the huge sct-sliEhUy mL, noTmt Itlement from his former employ- their actual earmncs dmnrtd He added that "a five-ton truck ers, working nine hours a day at cause federal income ti Ihth valwd at S3 50- th a nthly the A.

F. Howe Research Labora-werf hufher in foi hI 'J of $500 a month, pays lor torles. 146 President st. He has St? arfdedLcUbll even months." iturned out a concrete burial vault ant come tax purposes. The R8.354.999 of taxable Income for all groups is an ail-time nign record, as is the 49.531 indi-' viduals who reported this Income.

In addition, there were 12.804 per-i sons who filed returns but who did not have to pay a tax. com- SECT101V1L I00S-C1SES pared with 15,107 In 1943. There were 292 corporations in the county which had total taxable income of $3,049,869 last year, compared with 295 corporations with income totaling $3,512,814 in 1943. There were four corporations with taxable incomes of more than $100,000 last year. They reported incomes of $284,318, and $691,302.

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