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PAGE FOUR THE NEWS-HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1943. THE NEWS-HERALD FRANKLIN AND OIL CITY, PENNA. Member of Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Aswciatim The Voice of Broadway By DOROTHY RILGALLES. I As Memore jses Consolidation of FRANKLIN EVENING NEWS, Established Fib. 18, 1578.

By James B. Borland, and the VENANGO DAILY HERALD. Established September 6, 1904 Consolidated May 5. 1919. Published daily except Sunday by THE NEWS-HERALD PRINTING COMPANY Corner 12th and Liberty Streets, Franklin, Pa.

Wayne W. Bleaaley, Jr President and Publisher Wayne W. Bleakley, Sr Vice President Harriet R. Bleakley Secretary-Treasurer Georoe A. Fahey General Maraoer Roy Brower Production Manager James A.

Murrin Editor Richard A. LuOwio Managing Editor Directors Wayne W. Bleakley, Wayne W. Bleakley, George A. Fahey, James A.

Murrm and Richard A. Ludwig. Uv HENRY McLEMORE. Broadway Bulletin Board HE BOB EBERLES (he's Jimmy Dorsey's vocalist) are lullabying a 7-1'b. son at New York Hospital The Jack Toppiug-Betty Stewart wedding may happen this week.

Al Jolson turned down an offer of $50,000 for four weeks at the Rosy Paul Galileo, the writer, Is ailing at Mayo Brothers Clinic. Steve Brody, her prospective bridegroom, has gifted Martha Kemp Mature with a giant caboehon emerald ring. Martha Raye's new interest is a captain in the British army J. Petrillo will have an important Business and Publication Offices George A. Fahey, Phone 10 odyertising and Accounting 52 City Circulation F.

M. Bowser, Phone 52 Editorial Office Phones 457 and 6M. Nat.onal Advertising Representative Theis Simpson Co. New York, Detroit, Chicago, Kansas City. announcement to make within the next Sfo SrnH- Arctic Ocean show potential Ifi I I1 ,0 1 oid thrusts I r-V ALEUTIAN IS.

5000-mi. route from U.S. Xljs rA might be used if northern jrim 7l Jap islands were taken 7r china? SJX0V7V midwayB 1 AY- i Vi PHILIPPINE GUAM FAT UAM Attack on 4000-mile A If Si jf via. fetej route from Hawaii to VACEYLON Vjf 41 PS Japan would require AvA 'TRUK Mt. 9ot naval superior.

VV A fctffr yf r3 iry, seizure of isles fJ -A if on way as air bases Ocean H-i UJ4 Full Leased Telegraph Cable Service of the United Press Association Full Photo and Feature Service of Newspaper Enterprise Association Subscription Rates By Carrier In Franklin, Oil City and Route Towns per week 24c i per month in advance 95c; per year in advance $10.80. By Mail Within Venango County, per year, outside county (in state) outside state of Pennsylvania, $7.50. "How's hacking?" I asked the cab driver as we rolled down Lexington Avenue. "Terrific," he said. "Terrific! Never seen nothing like it.

Why guys are fighting for seats. Other night a fellow hops in the door, shoves a $5 bill in my hand, and says, 'That's just tor getting "ihat's swell," I said. "Time you hackers got a break. You nearly starved to death for a long time, didn't you?" "You're right, buddy, but the dough is pouring in now. 1 used to drive 40 and 50 miles a day and think I was lucky if 1 went home with three bucks in my pocket.

Now I'm driv Commercial Job Printing Depart- ment. Phone 120 Oil City Office, 214 Seneca Street Phones 4360 and 4361 Entered at the Franklin Postoffice as second-class matter I SIMM lew aays. Kecora companies, uhuci-pating a favorable switch on the situation, already are assigning songs to various' bands for near-future recordings Iavid Selzniek's mission to New York concerns the life story of Eddie Riekenbacker, for which he's making a powerful bid. Jesse Lasky, is in a local hospital with streptoeococeus Andy Embericos and his bride, the Ibeautiful Beatrice Hudson Aminidown, are knitting tiny garments. West Coasters say that Frances ing ICO miles a day, and making myself 73 bucks a week.

Other night I cleaned up 33 bucks." sr The cab stopped for a red light, ine gt 8 4 Farmer's tragic spree was motivated cabbie stuck his head around the glass partition. "But it ain't no good," he said. "What?" I said, not believing my ears. "Ain't no good," he repeated. "All the guys are kicking about it." "What's wrongs with 75 and 80 bucks a I asked.

Taxes," he said, pulling his wind- SAMOA breaker around his neck. "Them taxes. You know what I'm gonna have to pay Recapture of Burma may lead to attacks on Japs in China, raids on Japan and eventual invasion via this 3500-mi. route I NEW CALEDONIA AUSTRALIA i if I keep on at this rate? You know what the government'! nick me for? Three or four hundred! Yeah, maybe more than that, and I ain't got it. I can't pay that sort of cut.

Hell, 1 keep driving through reds trying to figure out how much I gotta pay out. Fight in Solomons paves way for 400Q-mi. drive to Tokyo from South Pacific 5200 hard miles of fight to retake Dutch islands and Philippines from firmly entrenched Japs Ain't no good." NEW ZEALAND That's just one little example of how people are talking all over this coun Dorothy KilgallenAv 'he sne ls carrying for a famous Group Theatre playwright Tin Pan Alley hears that Irving Berlin and his partner in the music business are splitting. Marianne O'Brien of. the "Follies" and Charles Martin, the radio director, are sniffing orange blossoms.

Joe Louis, the champ, is slated to be a second lieutenant in the S. Army Mrs. Colin Kelly, widow of the hero, is on the verge of signing for a sponsored air show. The WPB is on the verge of handing down a ruling that Madison Square Garden is not to get any more oil after Feb. 1.

There's a hot rumor that Panlette Goddard may pile a Reno divorce from Charles Chaplin atop the Mexican abrogation she got last summer erasing any possible obstacle to her marriage to Burgess Meredith. The Broadway shows have "cleaned up" their questionable scenes voluntarily, and new pJays coming in are keeping a sharp eye to the censors. "Doughgirls" had many of its lines laundered In the try-out. Howard Hughes is twitterpated over Sybil Merritt, who used to lie Steve Crane's sweetie Friends hear that the Don Briggs she's Audrey Christie, the rave of "Without Love" are lullabying. Gypsy Markoff flew into town from Bermuda the other day, gave a party at Bob Ripley's house, and flew back again Rose Franken was burned at John Golden for closing "Claudia" even after that long run.

Bill Eyth, the actor who was such a hit in "The Moon is I'own," was rejected by his draft board because of a broken eardrum. He got the injury playing a young Nazi soldier every night in the play. His "captain" struck him on the side of the head for being "too soft" to the conquered people. Charlie Feldman, the agent, was the peacemaker in try. They're making more money than they ever made before in their lives, and they're complaining.

I don't know anything about the national income, but right now it must be at a peak. And the result of its Many are the military paths to the heart of Japan, but each presents its difficulties of distance and enemy opposition to overcome. Island by island advance across the southwestern Pacific may be a slow and costly process for beating Japan. Striking from China or down from the Aleutians presents the possibility of killing all Jap resistance by capturing the capital but there are obstacles to attack here, too. If Admiral Halsey's forecast of victory in '43 is to be fulfilled, the world may yet see United Nations forces taking one or more of these roads to Tokyo.

ployed by the U. S. Army are asking payment in food and Money being at a peak is complaints complaints about having to turn back a share of the unprecedented wealth to the government that is fighting a war to see to it that men are paid decent wages, and not crushed by powers who would work them for nothing. is of no use. Both Gen.

Eisenhower and State De ILYJI piirtmenfs Robert Murphy agret that The cab driver is no different from supplies must be rushed. They have even gone so far as to suggest that supply ships could fill in the corners among tanks, guns and munitions with nil the rest of us. We're all griping. MERRY A rich man told me in all seriousness THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1943. IT'S A REAL PROBLEM! The staggering magnitude of this nation's Avar financing problem probably is responsible for the fact that opposition to the pay-as-you-earn income tax plan has almost disappeared.

The only substantial disagreement now is over whether a year's income tax liabilities should be written off the books. President Roosevelt has expressed strong doubts. Let's examine the evidence. Theoretically the Treasury would lose $8,000,000,000. This would be spread over a period of from 35 to 50 years, as one taxpayer after another died or stopped earning or suffered serious lessening of his taxable income.

Each year on the average the Treasury would "lose" $160,000,000 to $220,000,000. But that would be purely theoretical. The actual loss would be this maximum of $220,000,000 minus the amount of income taxes which would have been defaulted without the pay-as-you-earn plan, but could be collected with that plan. Nobody can measure intelligently those offsetting defaults. They can not be guessed on the basis of past performance for the simple reason that Americans never faced such onerous tax burdens.

The higher the tax rate, the greater the defaults, so long as we retain a system under which the man in the street is supposed to save for 12 months in order to pay a tax whose very size he cannot guess until the saving period is almost over. It is a good bet that the defaults which would be prevented by the pay-as-you-earn plan would fully offset the loss from forgiving a year's tax liability. Why can't we install pay-as-you-earn without excusing a year's taxes? Figure it out in your own case. This and 5 cents comes out of every income dollar for Victory tax. Old age tax is expected to go up to 5 cents on the dollar.

On top of that would come the withholding, weekly, of one-fifty-second of a regular income tax which next year will be half again as big as the whopper that is due in March. You are putting 10 per cent, of your pay, at least, into war bonds. You are paying high prices for most foodstuffs, and far from low prices for many other living items and good economists say that inevitably you will pay more. Out of 80 cents of each pay doliar left after deductions, can you live, and pay the full tax due next March 15 and, simultaneously, have the 1943 income tax half again as big as 1942's deducted weekly from your pay? that he was going to have to give up food and clothing. Eisenhower esti gambling because he couldn't afford Ml VDAH MAftA M6ISTfR it anymore.

Wouldn't have the spate money. That's too bad, isn't it! mares tnat tons or ciotning a month could ibt shipped in this way, without adding a ship to the convoys. But when the ships arrive, he has By DRKW I'EAKSON Defense workers by the score have another problem, for the port facilities are overtaxed, and even after-a ship told me that what worried them most was the thought of the taxes they would have to pay for the first time. That's too bad, isn't it! lias passed through sub-infest'. waters, WASHINGTON, Jan.

21. Lend-Lease Administrator Ed Stettinius is headed for a stormy reception w'hen he testifies before the House Appropriations Committee on the new budget for lend-lease aid to our allies. it may have to lie in iort for days the last Marlene Dietrich-Jean Gabin spat when they were here Floyd Mack, the announcer, is bedded with laryngitis Look for the Dorothy AVheeloek-Gypsy Rose Lee suit to be settled out of court. Alan Curtis was seriously injured in a film fight. May have to have his leg operated on Mabel Boll and Peggy Hopkins Joyce nearly let go with their long smouldering feud at El Morocco the other morning.

Marcellia Cassidy, daughter of the secretary of the Jockey Club, will trek to the altar with Capt. John Gander. before it can get to a dock. All over the country people are that there must be some sort of cbaii'je in the tax plan, else there'll be millions and millions of tax de- ZZ tfeart inquents. There aren't enough judges to convict them or jails enough to hold them, is the general tenor of the tax song that is being sung.

JANUARY 21, 1921. John L. Nesbit has been named "QUOTATIONS" This, mind you, in a country where The hearing w.ll be behind closed doors, and Republican committeemen are preparing to fire some hot questions about alleged irregularities in lend-lease operations, inelud-ng a charse that we purchased several merchant ships from Canada which were later given to the Chairman Emory S. Land of the Maritime Commission has admitted this at a closed-door meeting of the House Merchant Marine Committee. Another charge to be fired at Stettinius is that we sent scarce farm implements to Britain while our own farmers were minus.

The meeting, however, will not lie a one-way session. For the Lend-Lease boss has a surprise of his own in store for the committee. He plans to present details on "reciprocal" lend-lease namely services we are (retting from the British. president of the Franklin Board of no one but the soldier has been asked to make a real sacrifice. With our money we can still buy butter, meat, milk, eggs, warm clothes, stout shoes, almost in abundance.

Even with the taxes, we still have 10 times as tnuen money left than the civilians of any flX A 1 -HIUII ither country that is fighting this global war. What we need to do in this country, when we start to complain about how much we will have to pay out in taxes, is to sit down and figure out how much better off we are than the people of any other country. Sure, Trade. George A. Fahey has returned from a business trip to Xtw York City.

While there be turned ir a check of which represented the con, tri'lmtion of Franklin and vicinity to the Child Feeding Fund. Misa-Zada Hepler entt rtained 25 guests from Franklin and Oil City at her home at Victory last evening, complimentary to Mrs. Charles Bonham a recent bride. Miss Frances Anette Hughes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

C. W. Huglns, Victory, and Clarence Elvin Rosenberg, of Franklin, were married last evening by Rev. E. L.

Monroe. A son was born this morning to Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Whittekin, Oak Hill. A son wps born Thursday noon to Mr.

and Mrs. Florance P. Murray, Cleveland. 44 YEARS AGO: Jan. 21, 1899.

Miss Grace Post, of Cortland, Lucie Sam' wants a lot, needs a iot and will take a lot of the douga we are making but how do you think the people of Poland. Greece, Fran, Eneland, China. Belgium and all the ithers would feel if they could stilt food and clothing shortages were the result of the British blockade. After the invasion, the German radio declared that "the invading (U. forces are fersting upon the countryside like a horde of locusts." But discounting the propaganda, there are severe shortages of three articles indispensable to the Arabs tea, sugar, and cotton cloth.

To the Araba, who place great faith hi ritual, the severest blow is lack of cotton cloth for shrouds for the dead. And since the Arrbs greatly admire the strong, they fair to understand why the "great United States" is unable to supply their simple wants. For relief food and clothing are already being shipped. But it is a terrilic problem, extending to the population of Arabs in the three states-Moroceo, Algeria, and Tunisia. Most Arabs have money to buy provisions but there are no provisions.

In fact, the native workmen em have all the fruit and vegetables anil meat and fats and clothes they not only required but wanted? XO PEOPLE in the world is more experienced than you (Americans) are to realize that freedom has no unilateral value, that the monopoly of freedom by one individual or group means the peril of its neighbors. Chu Shih Ming of Chinese embassy. I DO XOT believe that the Germans will collapse again internally at the end of this, their fourth winter of war. Herbert Hoover. I'LL SEE my boys again when I christen the boat (Xavy tug).

I know the boys would want me to do It for them. Mrs. Thomas Sullivan, whose five sons went down with cruiser Juneau. THE JAPS could have retaken the island early in the campaign. But they didn't know it and we didn't intend to let them know it.

There hasn't been a Jap born who can come up to those fellows on Guadalcanal. Coast Guardsman James D. Fox, back from the Solomons. IF WE believe in maintaining local initiative, if we have faith in the integrity of the individual, we dare not say as we do, "Let the government do it." We risk our independence if we sit back and let Washington do the whole job. James Marshall.

Jewish welfare official. Nazis. Ilya Ehrenberg, who has been described as Russia's "most powerful" war correspondent, has another idea. They fight for their country, for its soil, for their national culture, for their loved ones, says this Red Star correspondent, who could not be anti-Communist and hold his job. We commend to American party liners Ehren berg's comment in a recent New York Times magazine: "The cosmopolitanism of the nineteenth century is a thing of the past.

I ove for one's own village has been It's a shame. We have more cash empolyed by Mrs. A. H. Groy, of this in our pocket r.han we ever had before.

The stores are still packed with the things that make- for comfort. Yet we complain. Suppose we had to pay There's a difference: RAF fliers are knocking out Germany's munitions and tank-building factories. Nazi planes are bombing British schools, killing children. that tax ou an empty, stomach.

Suj)- city, as hi ad milliner, and Harry Austin, of Meadville, were married Jan. 12 in Y. They will in Canton, O. Miss Harriet Walters, 37, died today at the home of her sister. Mrs.

A. A. pose we had to pay it when we were cold and with little hoe of ever get- ing warm. Then we might have a following an attack of grip. cause for fussing.

Below Zero Warfront We, the Women Sortovalla I IlliSm To Murmansk 700 miles Russian Thrusts 7JJTJ Nazi- Held Area Nazi Strong Points By RITII MILLETT. Eight" hours sleep a nighl, three good meaJs a dav, an hour's exercise day and That's the for mula Mount Holyoke suidents, are be- FINLAND XtitAmi 2fenwi in? asked to fol- 1 1 1 1 1 1 III 1 1 lirl At 1 1 1 1 rft. I low for the sake )t ph steal fitness. The last reminder "and smile" is nidL'oc thd The Other Side. The American public has heard little a'bout this phase, but have received considerable free aid from the British, including ships, ship repairs, barrage balloons for our coastal citks, anti-aircraft guns and sevtral large naval bases in the war zone, completely built, equipped and paid for by the British.

The British also have turned over to our forces in England, without cost, a huge air depot and an adjacent airdrome with an op; rating personnel of 5,000 workers paid by the British government. In addition, Great Britain has built several large cantonments, storage buildings and other facilities for our troops all without cost to Uncle Sam. Xote: The President once compared lend-lease to supplying a hose to put out a fire in your neighbor's house. If the tire is extinguished, but the hose is destroyed, it is still a good investment tiecause you prevent your own home from burning down. Officials Save Gos.

Some few Washington bigwigs are careless about gasoline rationing, but they are exceptions. Washington officialdom is scrupulously canful. The Chief Justice of the I'nited States, for instance, is riding a truck. Chief Justice Stcne has discarded his private car as a means of getting to and from the Supreme Court, and instead iu the delivery truck which runs errands for the Court. In addition.

Stone is one of the walking-est members of the Court. The White House uses 11 cars now, against a year ago. and these include trucks for thr White House mail, as well as cars for the President and staff. White Hone Secretary Marvin Mclutyre now rides to work in a Ford instead of a Packard. Vice President Henry Wallace last fall abandoned his lr-cylind limim-sine in favor of a humble five-passenger sedan.

Every morning he walks the five miles from the Wardman Park Hotel to the Capitol, and rides home in the veiling. Speaker Sam Rayimrn uses his official car sparingly. He often walks from his apartment on DuPont Circle to Seventh Stret. where he takes a street ear to the Capitol. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma gets to work on foot or by bus.

The other day a Capitol clerk gave him a lift from a bus stop on iMiteerrtb Street Approximately 20 Congressional cars are jackd np 'in the Senate garage, be unused as long as gas and tires re short. Mlio Terkins. chief of the Board of Economic Warfare, shnns the use of hi official car in driving from borne to office. Instead, be has joined ear pool with six other BEW inemlKrs wbo live in the same section. Note: Taking a ttu.

to work is no novelty for Arkansas Senator Hattie Caraway, who has been doing it far years. Arab Inrevt Against 8. Altbouzh the French political situation in Xrth Afiioa h-t-s made the adiine. the Arab tnati.n is almost worse. Cable? My flatly that unles the Arab p-t food and clothing, there will be trouble.

German broadcast are responsible for the nnret. Before the invasion. Genua a radio told the Arabs that jf 31 formula better thua most. The submarine menace is far from being controlled. More'of our ships have been sunk.

When our protective forces become stronger, then the hour will arrive when we can launch a full all-out attack somewhere in Europe. There Isn't 1 enough smiling In ft PERIL IN MOSEY BOOM Roger W. Babson, writing to the editor of the Wall Street Journal, points out some fallacies that the government is overlooking and at the same time points a warning finger at the bugaboo of economics: Inflation. This well-informed economist and financial writer, and a weekly contributor to the columns of this paper, declares: "Washington is constantly sending material to the effect that higher taxes will prevent inflation. Perhaps this will be the case, but I would like very much to have it discussed further by your editors.

The country is now spending through the U. S. Treasury about $2 billions per week. Assuming that one-half of this is collected through taxes, what of it? The money that is collected through taxes is not destroyed but is immediately paid out. "This $2 billion a week, not only keeps circulating but it is of course also accumulative in the form of a spiral rather than a cycle.

Even if tax money is used to pay up debt, the debt money is not destroyed but becomes the possession of the people who held the debt. In fact, is there any way out of this tangle? I would like to have reader? make suggestions. I am rather inclined to believe that we are witnessing a boom in money something like the Florida boom in land. If so, will the present boom in money likewise collapse? "Without doubt the nation is experienc-Itig a redistribution of money, but is it witnessing a redistribution of real wealth, so long as the title to this real wealth continues with present holders?" America today. The clerk who tells you he hasn't got what Vou want buy seldom eases the news vith a smile.

And the disan-ltointed customer No joke about this: We'd rather have Jim Farley or Al Smith as our envoy to Australia, knowing that either one would do a far better job and create more good will than paving block Ed Flynn. tg3EJf-gn Karelian Wg $1 fV I 1 1 J. Germans on defensive I III offer Russions break 1 Mi. Ill Peipus I Lugo llll II Iff Moscow! fl WLM If 1 NOVGOROD im mST PU Ml pim-1 1 illirtPnjl uTnOIIi ''TTrf $TARAYALr--t-v LATVIA Ufi11'111' II KUSSAM Voldai Hi IlirUf III" llllHIIIlK II RUSSIA If lilH Soviet troops thrust' Ir Kholm Hi bolder py j.jf lllT 1 Miles News flash reports: "Russians gain on six fronts." Hitler in November, 1941, said Leningrad would be taken "at any time" he wanted. Another guess gone wrong.

Anthracite miners have gone back to work after the most inexcusable and most costly strike in warpower that we've yet experienced. is more l'ke'y to look and act disgruntled than to take the news pleasantly. There is too much swapping sad stories when friends meet and too little effort made to talk about something that brings sml'es. isn't a year to be taken lightly. Everybody knows that.

But that is no reason for our not making an actual effort to smile in friendliness, in recognition that things aren't like they nsed to be, bnt never mind, and because no matter whit we hir to pnt np with we're all pretty much in the same boat. If yon doubt the necessity for pleasant smiles and cheerful, healthful laushter in a world at war think bow delighted you are these days to run into the friend wbo has as much right to null a long face as the next person bnt who. instead, is readv to laugh. And think how low yon feel after to some of your friends wbo nave apparently jrivtn np gaiety for the duration. For yonr own sake get enongh rest, eiertise.

and eat balarred meaU. And as vonr contribution toward the well-being of others smile. Now that the Fighting French have joined forces with Gen. Montgomery's Eighth Army, probably Rommel will run faster if he can! Temperatures are down to 30 and 35 below in Minnesota and the Dakotas. We shouldn't kick too hard here.

Surprising, isn't it, how the simple diet, often without butter, can be most healthy? FOR LOVE OF COVSTRY Unthinking Americans have asserted that Jove for Communism is what makes the Russian people fight so heroically against the Bitter winter on the northern Soviet front is the Russians favorite time for action and Red Army forces are now pushing the Germans bark in the Leningrad and Velikie Luki areas. Map shows how Rufsians broke the 16-month siege of Leningrad and spots key objectives of Soviet snow soldiers. The war makes the whole world kin and our rusty geography is growing more in factual brilliance..