Sun Herald from Biloxi, Mississippi • 4

SCMWHBVH NOOZLE The Daily He rat t0 Flx xt Up This Will Tax Your Patience By PETER EDSON NEA Service Washington Correspondent BitirH mond-cUi mail matter at the pnat office at Biloxi Mias utter tha act of Karefe I KIT Entered aa aecondclate mad matter October 1C 1909 at tha pout oflica at GutfporL Him under tha Act of March A 1991 BILOXI DAILY HERALD PUBLISHES GULFPORT Her aid Building FOUNDED BY GEO WILKES Her aid Building jKkfoe Street PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY Herald Square SeUbbafaed ankljr aa Biloxi UM dally 1999: established la Gulfport 1909 MEMBER Of THE ASSOCIATED The Ateoclated Pram la ex-etuaieeiy entitled to the um for republicauoo of e'J news credited to it er not otherwise eredued In this paper and also the local news published therein All rights ef republicatioa ot special dispatches herein ere aieo Friday Afternoon December 21 1943 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dairy by carrier 99c per week: by mall 9Se per CO they were going to maxe this tax-paying business simple So the pay-as-you-go tax plan was going to make everything easy So they went ahead and as matters stand now calculating your federal itm fgg 1944 be much worse than if they had set out to make it difficult in the first place The best advice that can be given under these circumstances is to start figuring your income taxes just as soon as you can after recovering from your New Year's hangover Test yourself first on addition and subtraction then throw a few problems ct multiplication snd decimals to make sure ready for the task because this year you have to figure percentages And you can bet your last funny steel penny that the lines forming around the income tax desks next March 15 will be longer and madder and more muddled than they have ever been To begin with this year have to fiU out two (2) different forms covering your income for three (X) different month: by mail outvie Biloxi and Gulfport in Harrison Stone Jackson and Hancock counties only 95e per one day a week only (Saturday) mad only! per year: mad subscriptions payable tn advance MURDER ORDERS I cult for the Lions to make their FROM BERLIN choice You may have read it in an As-! can no reer the eonfer-sociated Press dispatch from New i rn this recognition upon Mrs York but we wkh to quote here 1101100 without recalling the great the statement of a German staff esteem an appreciation in which officer high repute" esptured lhis community held her husband years 'fc GKlX Soto tytfS KAKE fcosY OF fHEMStUK VMEN Ctf FAY WEATHER FORECAST Mississippi Coast: Generally fair this afternoon tonight and Saturday higher afternoon tempera-turea cool again tonight with frost and lowest temperature 38 Gentle winds Mississippi: Fair Except aom high cloudiness this afternoon tonight and Saturday higher afternoon temperatures today ard Saturday quite cool again tonight with temperatures slightly below freezing in north and central portion and frost in central and southern portions METEOROLOGICAL RECORD Observation taken for hours Udine sm CCWT) today first of these forms covering your anticipated Income and Victory tax payments for 1944 is similar to the form you wrestled with last Sept 15 estimating your Income end your Victory and withholding taxes for 1943 rrom this estimate of Income and taxes for 1944 you may find that the taxes to be withheld from your pay envelope to 1944 will be sufficient to meet your federal taxes for the year to which case you will have to make no March 15 payment on your 1944 income On the other hand you may find you will have to pay something extra on March 15 Either way you will have to bring this calculation into balance with what you owe the government or what the government will owe you on your 1942 and 1943 Income taxes which are calculated on the second form Bolton a kindly took time from his for an active interest in the civic and political Biloxi He was a a man of sterling admirable characteristics a gentleman and citizen possessing of mind and heart as Dr and Mrs a community and humane gracious influences which make in our American by the Russians broadcast by the Soviet-sponsored Free Germany Committee Moscow We wish to cite this because we frequently have stated that the Hitler regime had disregarded international law and would do so when it suited Nazi purposes and because the three Germans executed at Kharkov stated that mass killings and cruelties were due to Nasi policy and orders from the Nazi inner circle in Berlin The Moscow broadcast said Major Bernhard Bechier related that he attended a staff meeting in March 1941 before the invasion of NAZIg IXVITE Russia at which Hitler commun the late Dr physician who professional duties and part affairs of splendid citizen character and naturally a fine lovable great qualities It is such people Bolton who build add to it those and cultural the best society life rpHE Rotary Club Hears Pascagoula New Paragraphs Mrs Phone 171 trouble Is aR with toe tax law itself In interests of simplification the Treasury this year proposed Integrating Income and Victory taxes by dropping some nine million potential taxpayers from the almost entirely married people of the lowest income groups The combined yield to the government from these nine million was estimated at $300000000 Treasury would have made up this sum by dropping the 10 per cent earned income credit The House Ways and 51 earn Committee not liking this ides brought forward a new "minimum tax" proposal which would have meant reeducating aU the low income group of taxpayers and would have collected a mere 31814)00000 from the nine million taxpayers in the lowest income groupu Then the Senate Finance Committee unwilling to achieve real simplicity defeated the minimum tax and retained the Victory tax in Its present form There matters stood as Congress went borne for the Christmas holiday The whole tax to Its present un passed form is one glorious mf Yielding only 32000000000 added taxes reducing other tax rates now to effect freezing social security taxes and refunding certain recovered by war contract renegotiation this 1944 tax bill if passed to Its present form would actually lose the government money The President could veto such a tax bill and the Treasury would be ahead Thus does Congress labor toward simplification icated his views a group of generals and SS (Elite Guard) leaders" plans" Bechier was quoted as saying a demand to wipe out the whole Russian intelligentsia mayors economic leaders engineers officers and so forth by the fighting troops themselves making ihis possible military courts were to be abolished He described this permanent mass murder as necessary for the destruction of Bolshevism and for the Germanization of the East" Bechier said he was at another confemece at which Hitler cried: law indeed! We shall determine what is international law once we have won the WBT" Bechier said German generals first apposed murder order because it might impair troop Suggests Chicago for Political Meetings discipline but that later the high command issued it with instructions to shoot all captured political commissars of the Russian army without trial The broadcast said that the disclosures in the testimony at the trial at Kharkov resolved the officer to break his silence as a pri- But was by British seen soner of war I I A rush a flash a roaring If EISEXDRATII 'And brave men of the BERLIN CATCHES THE "Twas the fine Bay of Biscay A blockade runner sought To land Jap-Hun cargo Which from Japan she brought Flanked by Nazi destroyers In number just fifteen She would have harbored American (continued from peg one) craft which are now one-third built The Merchant Marine has been doubled in two years The 25 million tons of ships built in 1942 and 1943 exceed President Roosevelt's for victory" goal by a million tons By last fall the Army had enough rifle and submarine gun bullets to fire 2000 rounds at every Axis soldier enough Army artillery ammuniiton to fire 17 shells at every Axis soldier Total outlays for war including food and pay had climbed last month to 146 billion dollars since the defense program started in June 1940 53 per cent of it was spent in 1943 Aircraft will amount to 45 per cent of the whole 1944 munitions program Already America is outproducing the Axis in warplanes 2 to 1 as more than matching the output of enemies and Allies put together AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION December production is esti mated at 9000 planes more than the Army Air Forces possessed at tiie time of Pearl Harbor In all 1943 well over 85000 planes were built since Pearl Harbor 133000 since the start of the defense ef fort about 155000 still unlimited" for the aircraft producers Production may soar 50 per cent in ton nage and value With Japan in mind the emphasis will be on heavier longer-range planes The number delivered is expected to stabilize however at around 10 500 a month about midyear In merchant ships the call is for a smaller but still formidable in-crease but here again cutback talk is heard Naval ship production is sloping off Among the lesser programs mese will hold top urgency: land-crafl radar and military ing Eisendrath who have known him i during the twenty-two years of i Gone to their rest with Scharn-residence in Biloxi were shocked horst to learn of his death Wednesday wake they followed gone of These supermen GROVER MCQUEEN TELLS DETAILS OF ROBBER In an interview with Herald reporter Grover McQueen of Moss Point related the details of the armed robbery which befell him sometime ago and to which the youth Thomas Clinton Joiner of Louisville Miss confessed this week in Ackerman Miss to Coleman district attorney at that place Mr McQueen said he picked up the boy who looked older than the reported eighteen years at the edge of Moss Point and they drove to a spot two miles this side of the state-line where the young man pulled a gun on him and ordered him to turn into a side road where he made him disrobe leaving him only undergarments driving on with the car This was near seven at night That was the last McQueen heard of him until this week After the car drove off the victim walked several miles until he came to a farmhouse where a sympathetic woman gove him a pair of old pants and he then walked on to Grand Bay where he called the Mobile highway patrol and related the incident Mr McQueen walk ed back to Moss Point and got one short ride He is now preparing to go after his car which has been reported wrecked near Louisville slightly burned but which he hopes to salvage Latest information is that Joiner will be returned to Jackson county at an early date TWO INFANTS DIE Marie Stapleton infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Alexalonzo Stapleton died Dec 27 at Jackson County Hospital Interment at the Greenwood cemetery Dec 28 and funeral seryices were held at the home by Rev Morgan of Fairview Baptist church Robert Keith Fulton infant son of Mr and Mrs Luther Fulton died at Jackson County Hospital He is survived by one brother Charles and sister Bonita one grandmother Mrs Wilkerson one grandfather Eli Johnson both of Moss Point Funeral services were held at the residence in Moss Point and interment at Union cemetery Miss Daisy Ferguson has returned to her home in Grenada after spending Christmas week-end with her sister Mrs Wozen craft Mrs A Nadeau and family her daughter and husband from Norfolk Va the latter a Marine corporal and Julius and Gertrude Wiggins and Mr and Mrs A Saucier spent Sunday in Pascagoula with Mr and Mrs Ed Wiggins Naldo Saucier played Santa Claus to a happy party of child ren some neices and nephews and others neighbors numbering fourteen during the Christmas season Ice cream and cake were served and there were gifts distributed by Santa from a beautiful tree Those enjoying the hospitality of Mr and Mrs A Saucier were: Bernard and Paul are not in a position to say just at what point in a Christmas pantomime the harlequin attacks the comic policeman with a huge sausage for a club but it all sounds perfectly wonderful Torres Mobile Daisy Ed and Renie Wiggins Hean and Marie Lou Caver Ann Saucier Bennie Rohr Nan Smith Marie Millie Bobbie and Charles Delmas and Rita Nadeau of Mobile SIRS SIERIWETIIER DIES Eleanor Wilcox Meriwether wife of the late Charles Meriwether native of Fort Wayne Ind and resident of New Orleans for 20 years died there Dec 28 and the body was taken to Pascagoula for burial today Mr and Sirs A Reeves and Mr and Mrs Janett Faulkner1 and two children all of Batesville spent the week-end with Mr and Sirs Fred Weeks on Conveni street Miss Dorothy Parrish of Ozark who is now making her home with her sister and brother-in law Mr and Mrs Bacot spent the Christmas week-end with her family in Ozark LOUIS HA YARD DIES Louis Havsrd 25 died December 26 at his home in Davis community in George county He is survived by his wife Mrs Effie King Havard his father and mother Sir and Mrs Try Havard snd one brother Rev Davis of the Methodist Church was in charge of the religious ceremony at the home and interment was in Shady Grove cemetery Dec 27 BILLY MAC JENKINS DIES Billy Mac Jenkins 20 died at Jackson County Hospital 3 Wednesday He had been employed by the USO in Pascagoula and had only been in service one week when he succumbed to diabetes His body was shipped to San Angelo Texas his home Thursday morning He is survived by his parents Mr and Mrs Jen-Kins San Angelo Texas and one brother Lt Jenkins who now lies wounded in hospital in England SIRS LULA TOWNSEND DIES Mrs Lula Dean Townsend 77 died at the home of her daughter Mrs McGowan at Kreole December 27 and the funeral was held Dec 28 with interment at Gibson cemetery near Kreole She is the widow of Jerome Winslow Townsend and is survived by four daughters Mrs Myrtle Crater Chicago 111 Mrs Clara May Withers Witts Springs Ark Mrs McGowan' Kreole and Miss Pearl Townsend of Pascagoula eight grandchildren and one great grandchild Mrs Townsend was born in Jerseyville 111 and made her home with her daughter Mrs McGowan for the past fourteen years ACQUITTED OF MANSLAUGHTER Clarence Clements accused of manslaughter in connection with a traffle accident in which two ne-gresses lost their lives was acquitted Thursday afternoon in a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Kate Wenny at Pascagoula The accident occurred recently on US Highway 90 near Gautier Vaudeville originated with a show opened by Keith in a vacant candy store in Boston in 1883 Washington Dec 31 (A1) The Office of Defense Transportation has reinforced its proposal that both major political parties hold their 1944 conventions in Chicago with a statement that more than three times as many sleeping cars arrive daily at the Illinois city than at any other Midwest point In reply to a formal inquiry from Chairman Harrison Spangler of the Republican National Committee seeking a of other cities which might be used with the least interference with our transportation problem" McCarthy director of the ODTs division of traffic movement says: of dominance is the following table showing the number of beds in regular line sleeping cars terminating at various favorably located cities: 11368 New York 7-129 St Louis -3240 Detroit 1528 Kansas City 1279 and Cleveland 1235" McCarthy added that the of sleeping cars is extremely limited all available extra cars being dedicated to troop train service REPAIR FUNDS ALLOTTED STATE INSTITUTIONS Jackson Dec 31 Approximately $14300 was allotted to state institutions for repairs and improvements by the state building commission at a meeting here yesterday Allocations included sums of $1000 to the Charity Hospital at Meridian $3000 to the Delta State Teachers College at Cleveland $4500 to Mississippi Southern College Hattiesburg for repairs to the boys dormitory 35000 for a stock blood testing laboratory to be located in Jackson and $800 for renovation of three offices in the old capitol ASKS ADDITIONAL ALCOHOL FOR NEW ORLEANS New Orleans Dec Representative Hebert (D-La) said yesterday that he had wired Donald Nelson chairman of the War Production Board requesting the allocation of additional alcohol to the New Orleans area Hebert said the epidemic of mild Influenza in the city had caused a serious shortage in pharmaceuticals with an alcoholic base and that local drug manufacturers also had asked the WPB for a supplemental alcohol allotment era the stage of the production effort warn that this lap may be the longest one THIS CURIOUS WORLD by 1 UNDER OUR I PRESENT CALENDAR AVERAGE LENGTH OFA YEAR IS 26 SECONDS TOO CAUSING US TO ACCUMULATE TIME BUT IT WON'T ADD UP TO A The invitation of the Nazi governor-general of Poland to the Polish underground force to join the Germans to fight Russia to ward off the Bolshevic threat has all the naivete of a Wienerwurst and finesse of sauerkraut The Nazi appeal ia a slap in the face adding insult to intolerable injury To make this offer while the conqueror and despoiler of Poland and the mass and individual the military and civil murderer still has his foot on the necks of the Polish people it Is preposterous if not blasphemous! The refusal was instant The Poles may be politically and physically held down in the dust but their spirit and courage came from ancestors who anciently gave Poland the proud name Shield of Eastern warriors who were credited with more brilliant actions than any nation in Europe First would destroy the British Failed then turned on the Russ: leftbut she is not Too late to catch the MEN OF 50 (a) Seven electrical contractors ing In one short afternoon! would not employ a certain num- ber of electrical workers over 50 years old (b) The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (AFL) had requested that every third journeyman electrician employed be 50 years old or over but the Electrical Association of Cedar Rapids Ia refused (c) The regional war labor board issued a directive to the seven firms to employ 25 per cent of men over 50 years of age When the Unions and the War Labor Board agree on a thing it produces results and life for the worker over 50 begins at 50 It is a great country in which a man can run his own business Topics of the Times notes aU that goes on in the Haphazard A sIni aMNWqihul World As Christmas approached he televisioned this little charm of unusualness: Princess training for her future life-work as Queen of Great Britain is obviously far from narrow' Her education consists on the one hand in attending sessions of the Council of State and on the other hand in taking the name role in and the Wonderful Lamp" pantomimes When the heiress presumptive to the English throne acts in why does one call it education instead of just recreation? The reason is that the Christinas pantomime is an ancient British folkway At the very time that Princess Elizabeth as Aladdin was popping out of a laundry basket in long white silk trousers and a kimono thousands of her youthful future subjects were having very much the same kind of time of their lives as amateur actors Hundreds of thousands of British children in the Christmas season will have seen the professional Aladdins All Babas harlequins pantaloons and comic policemen in the theatre and perhaps on the screen In this country we know nothing of the pantomime as a Christmas institution but the eminent English writers of our own dry are always talking about this permanent feature of British life One of Chester- i early Father Brown stories j'he Flying is about an 1 amateur Christinas performance His favorite comparison for a scene color and excitement is the on Scene in the pan- I- I ene in me pan of our Mr Bl'Ooka ill Quniiking we Talk on Mexico Andres Horcasitas New Orleans addressed the Gulfport Rotary Club on the subject at the Thursday luncheon of the group The speaker described the climate people argiculture rubber production and tourist trade of the country below the Rio Grande He also spoke of Mexico's part in production of oil and high octane gasoline and the friendly relations existing between the US and Slexico Guests were Frank Bowes Biloxi Adams Pass Christian and George Poole SO THEY SAY- We have got the Japs beaten but we have to keep pushing The Japs jungle training long before the war and we But the Japs are restricted and lack variation Our great advantage is our enterprise and Gen George Marshall In consideration af adjusting what the British owe us on lend-lease most of the Pacific islands should be turned over to us Sen A Chandler of Kentucky If you feel you are unworthy if you know you are bad if you are thoroughly dissatisfied with yourself you ire in the right frame of mind to become a Christian -Rev Samuel Shoemaker of'New York The great hazard of the early post-war era is that war-weary America and Great Britain may neglect the all-important task cf making peace If Europe is left in a restless state there will be civil war Sir Gerald Campbell British minister to the US Our air force is on the upgrade The Germans are on the downgrade But discount the Ger-rin era been fighting them for 14 and there are no flies on them 8th AAF Brig-Gen Curtis Le May back from Britain FAMILY-TYPE TRAILERS FOR PASCAGOULA Washington Dec 31 (P) The Federal Housing Authority will provide 75 family-type trailers to be rented to workers in Ingalls Shipyard at Pascagoula Miss the office of Senator FarHnn (D bliss) said Thursday FORREST COUNTY SHERIFF NAMES CHIEF DEPUTY Hattiesburg Dec 31 (JP) Grantham who became Forrest county sheriff and tax collector Jan 3 announced that George Odom had been appointed his chief outside deputy Other appointments included Charlie Burch court deputy and McRaney in charge of the sheriffs office A jailer will be appointed later NE1V GREENVILLE MAYOR Greenville Dec 31 Gray will be inducted Monday as mayor of Greenville succeeding Mayor Milton Smith Gray was elected in the October primary George Helms and Steve Finlay new members and A 51 Hyman and Cason both re-elected will compose the city council Home' their houses reduced to rubble Houston Jacksonville Kansas City Memphis New Orleans Pittsburg it St Liins Washington EXTENDED WEATHER For period 7:30 pm CWT Deo 31 to 7:30 pm Jan 4: Mississippi: Temperatures near normal Rising trend beginning of period Little or no precipitation indicated except fight rain aouth portion Monday or Tuesday New Plan Adopted For Better Control Of Gas Coupons A plan to establish more effective control over the return of unused gasoline ration coupons for numerous automobiles which change hands monthly was announced by the Office of Price Administration at Jackson Under the plan a check will bm made to see that outstanding gasoline coupons for a verhicle to be fold are returned to the ration board before the vehicle la transferred OFA said Before selling the car the present owner will be required to return any coupons issued for the vehicle that remain in his possession to his ration board and obtain fceiPt in duplicate One copy or the receipt is to be retained by the seller and one is to be given to the new owner along with the tire inspection record The new owner must then present his receipt and the tire inspection record to the board before a new gasoline ration can be issued OP A said Dealers and other persons holding new or used vehicles Including passenger cars commercial vehicles or motorcycles for resale will be required to file an inventory with their ration boards of all such vehicles as of the close of business December 31 1943 and obtain a receipt for each vehicle Beginning January 1 no vehicle is to be sold or transferred unless this receipt is given to the purchaser at the same time Scrap dealers must have on hand a receipt for each vehicle they receive beginning January 1 These receipts must be retained for at least one year if the vehicles are to be scrapped OPA said that beginning January 1 no board can issue rations for a motor vehicle that has changed ownership after December 31 unless the applicant submits the appropriate receipt This new action seeks to strengthen means of bringing about full compliance with regulations already in effect OPA said CHILD FALLS BENEATH TANK CAR KILLED Picayune Miss Dec 31 Harry Drennan 9 was killed yesterday when he fell beneath a train of tank cars at crossing here The boy was the son of Apprentice Seaman and 5Trs A Drennan: Besides bis parents the youth Is survived by two brothers and a sister Ferguson Md a cr or TZz JACK-O'-LANTERN MUSHROOM curocyrae ajvt0ets) IS PHOSPHORESCENT ans its Glow can be seen kb sohM distance at mamt 12 31 at his home in this city The state his health for some time past and his advanced age prepared them in some degree for this sad end but -ii the sundering of all earthly ties cannot come without a shock Mr Eisendrath was a most ener-! getie and industrious man Throughout his life his experience was wholesale mercantile business private secretary to an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury traveling for wholesale concerns in Wisconsin and conducting a wholesale business of his own and finally settling in Biloxi and conducting a real estate and investment business Through these activities he was well known in Illinois Wisconsin and this community and in such large cities as Chicago and Milwaukee In this life work and its variety he naturally acquired large experience with people and business and his activities in the civic life of Biloxi demonstrated his interest in the affairs of the community of his adoption He was a most excellent citizen most free and gracious in his associations of a kindly heart and devoted to his family The death of his dear wife ENGLISH PANTOMIME Besides being a scholar a philosopher a poet and a researcher for xomeyear ago who was indeed the Quaint and Curious the Editor There's No Place Like trucks In many types of equipment tne ground forces are about to go on a replacement basis Only in artillery ammunition and signal equipment are increases planned If the cutbacks crane in the predicted severity WPB foresees that even while total production is pushing up some elements will be going down some plants will stand idle some communities suffer pay roll declines CAUTIONS CUTBACKS But the cutbacks will be cautious Production planners emphasize that no weapon or equipment item will be cut unless reserve supplies are ample for any possible emergency and unless plant capacity stands ready for quick resumption if needed Also the beginnings of restored civilian production will take up some slack Moreover cutback talk Is cautiously uttered for no one can! predict the cost of an invasion ot Europe either in lives or munitions until the invasion is under way WPB Chairman Donald Nelson recently disclosed that one Army division used up all its guns in the single month of fighting in Sicily To replace the 60 bombers lost in the one great raid at Schweinfurt 1000 aircraft workers will put in 48 hours a week fra a year For civilians 1944 may the leanest year of the war although pre-sure for increased civilian production is mounting daily snd ran restoration Is planned The plans are not only limited in scope but will be slow in fruition as hard to retool for peace as for war The office of civilian million electric irons next year snd 900000 washing machines Definitely scheduled are 74000 electric irons The washing machines if finally approved get into production before midyear at best and the average citizen get any of the electric ranges The armed services hospitals and other institutions and federal housing projects will get first whack a few consumers whoae old ranges re worn out and who use other tuel will get the ones remaining late in the year In dubbing the new production! a help meet for man was a great shock to him His devotion to her memory was sacred but he realiz ed and appreciated fully the marvelous privilege of her sweet companionship during their blissful married life for many years Triends and acquaintances in Biloxi who were accustomed to his friendly greetings missed him on the street and in other meeting places during his illness and now they are further saddened by the fact that they meet him no more We extend most earnest sympathy to his splendid son Cosman Eisendrath and his excellent wife who did all in their power by devotion and service to make him easy and as content as possible at all times and to thy end DESERTED RECOGNITION We desire to endorse very heartily the action of the Lions Club of Biloxi in recognizing and naming Mrs Bolton as an outstanding sitixen of this community She has engaged in every civic and charitable undertaking here for many years devoting herself with great earnestness and ability to doing those things which contribute to the best life of the community and to the humane and cultural in fluences ee-mtip! i CiOUs It Vua Hot ulfi- the keeps up it certainly COWES BESSIE STEPMANE i fields be littered with wrecked machines of war and I bare SkMetnne Vnnlaii 1 1 1 1 1 7 Bar Mwetong Russian hiiucu umuiuiu war 9 peasants by ureu return with eager steps to resume their life in a village Liberated the Rad Army romNazl invaders or Ilf 111- NEXT: It's all Henry Wickham's fuM.