The Dothan Eagle from Dothan, Alabama • 2

By A4flun DOTHAN EAGLE Monday January 7 1946 2 WILLIE and JOE this wages quoted mili TOMOtlOV BOY VICTORY BONDS in a critical condition from OVER I of Receive Your easy way to UNCORK Message When Jackson DISCHARGED son WAN! ADS Phone 1600 for silch a Drawing Cards DOTHAN ALA jMiitk A BITE when NEW YORK COTTON PEPPER BOTTLING COMPANY DOTHAN ALABAMA I TO'NIGI BY A the the find you under estimated by less than 20 per cent go ahead and pay your and the The accident yesterday at try ft and If not pleased In every way your money will refunded the fourth and final bill by the internal revenue committee a meeting with a Se in about a the bad the An body tempera may go as ngn as 104 di during strenuous exercise as of He he ft used in their food Thus you make a pint family rip ply of really excellent cough medi cine It gives you about four times as much for your money Tastes fine children love and It never spoils The way this simple mixture takes right hold of a cough la truly surpris ing It loosens the phlegm soothes I he Irritation reams soreness and dif ficult breathing and lets you get restful sleep You'll swear by It I'lnex la a special compound of proven ingredients In concentrated form known for Its quick effect on Or fde an do this decided to by pass Manila current world tour told the committeem be called off The said it was too and estimated 10 attend declined an invi i in oy IC al li Mill buying and replacement commission house demand helped stabilize prices of about 40000 knew early last deducted have to file an SLIM SUMMERVILLE DEAD LAGUNA BEACH Calif (AP) Slim Summerville who grew up with the movies is dead The gangling comic born George Somerville in Albuquerque 51 years ago succumbed Sat urday night to his third stroke in recent weeks at his home here uneral services followed by cre mation will be held tomorrow 4r vM UXATm I Sanaa rial Areata: MARKET AECTED NEW YORK (AP) The cot ton futures was seriously upset today by Washington moves to impose ceiling on the 1946 cot ton crop After dropping 50 cents to near ly 2 a bale In early dealings prices steadied considerably and In late transactions the market was only 30 to 70 cents a bale low Dothan Man elt Like Swollen Balloon ull Of Stomach Gas Recently a Dothan man stated: that he used to feel like a swollen balloon after every meal He would bloat full of gas and spit up acidu lous liquids for hours after eating Was terribly constipated This man Is one of the hundreds in this vic inity who now praise INNER AID He states he was amazed st the a results when he took this medicine Now he eats what he wants with out gas or bloating and bowels are regular for the first time in years He feels like a new man INNER AID contains 12 Great Herbs they cleanse bowels clear gas from stomach act on sluggish liver and kidneys Miserable peo ple soon feel different all over So don't go on suffering! Get INNER AID Sold by all drug stores here tn adv Number 17 Continued rom Page one City News Bureau said the kid napper telephoned at 10 a to reiterate the ransom demand to Degnan who earlier had told news men: "I have no money and I know of no reason why 1 should be a target for a kidnapping for A ransom note found in the room stressed that the family not notify tha police or the newspapers or the child would be harmed The threats were repeated over the telephone the News Bureau said and the caller insisted on the ransom saying he would call lat BY JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON tAP) January 15 is a tax deadline It does not affect everyone It affects about 10000000 out of 50000000 tax payers one of the 10000000 and by January 15 must do something sbout the tax on your 1045 income 1 You've been making quarterly payments on your estimated tax for 1945 The fourth final payment is due January 15 been making the pay ments but under estimated the tax owed by more than 20 per cent You must make the correction by January 15 a penalty it you don't 3 You should have but didn't file an estimate on 1945 tax 4 a fanner who hasn't paid any tax on 1945 income The full 1945 income tax was withheld regularly in 1945 from the River rose feet lood riendly Contest afal To Veteran might snap them out of it by threatening to quit if thev Ju KuE nnose thev take me If you your tax you can bill Then on March 15 when all 50000000 taxpayers of 1945 must file a final you can file your final Tetum make the cor rection and pay what you owe are said to have stepped in of a double barrelled gun Sergeant John Whitehead whose wife lives in Cottonwood has been discharged from the Army after months service at ort McPherson Ga the public relations office announced In 11 months overseas service he served as squad leader in the 88th Division earning the Combat Infantry Badge Bronze Star Med al Good Conduct and American theater ribbons and European theater ribbon with two battle stars wages or salaries 000 people They year it would be So they estimate or make any quarterly payments The full tax was de ducted from wsges or salaries up to $5000 But last March 15 about 10000 000 people did have to estimte Those who had to were: 1 Persons whose 1945 were more than $5000 plus $500 for each exemption besides a tax payer's own exemption Example: Smith with wife and child had two exemptions besides his own If his wages exceeded $8000 $5 000 plus $500 plus $500 1 he had to file a 1945 declaration of esti mated income and the tax on it Then in quarterly Installments he had to pay the difference be tween the amoung ot tax withheld from his wages end the full tax due on his income 2 Persons who had more it an $100 income In 1945 In addition to the wages from which lax regu larly was withheld Example: wages were $4000 ull tax was withheld from that But he figured to get $200 from renting a room He'd have to make quar terly payments on tax cm $200 3 Persons like merchants landlords doctors received income from which taxes were not withheld They had to make an estimate on their income and the tax due on It and then pay tle tax in quarterly install ments 4 armers Under the law farm ers didn't have to file an esti mate in 1945 on 1945 Income but were allowed until Jan 15 1948 to do so They must psy the full tax by January 15 If you're making your final quar terly arid don't have to make chances in your estimate just pay sent yu collector gun few had late yesterday afternoon They were rushed to tne hospital by neighbors who heard the shot "increasingly disturbed" by cent cotton price rises their possible effect on yarn ceilings rom Texas Burris chairman of the Statewide eolfon committee called price control proposal cable and unworkable said took re because of fabric and Shortly after 11 a Detective Chief Walter Storms hurried from the scene of the kidnapping a two story duplex house to the Summerdale police station col lected six squads of police men and raced west with them Three BI agents conferred with Degnan as did Sheriff Michael Mul chay of Cook County iChicagoi a friend Police Commissioner John Prendergast who took office Only seven days ago assumed per sonal charge of the case The Degnans moved to Chicago Mrs Degnan coming from Balti more six months ago and Deg nan from Washington a year ago His work deals with pM onnel and management of ration boards not with price fixing or rationing Suzanne's parents described her as large for her age with blond hair blue eyes The kidnappers apparently took her in only her night clothes as a quick wardrobe check disclosed none of her other clothing missing She was in the first grade at the Sacred Heart Academy Meteor Crater between lag staff and Winslow Ariz once was known as "Coon of Numbar 11 Caatiaaad rom Page Om for tonight Baumgardner said a ilipino night supervisor was on duty early today when a man wearing a Army uniform en tered the office demanded to see the files and read them The manager declared that who ever the man was he had no authority to examine the files violated the civil and criminal codes and he Rad called the mat ter to the attention of Lt Gen Styer commanding army forces in the Western Pacific "You can be certain that the examination of the cable office files was without the knowledge or approval ot General said Lt Col A Hurd public rela tions officer "No statement can be made until an investigation is completed to determine whether any investigator of this command is guilty Earlier a committee of five sold iers personally placed the men's complaint in the hands of Styer after a parade of about 3000 sold iers to headquarters during the morning I Committeemen also sought to voice their complaints to Secre tary of War Patterson on his ex pected arrival here but learned be has on his Styer that the "changing forbade sending all eli gible men home immediately Military police said all the dem onstrations had been orderly and even good natureo but Styer asked that a mass meeting planned for later today committeemen late to do so 000 men would Tha General tation to address the meeting but said he would make a statement through the press and radio "No matter how good your In Styer told the commit tee "I am afraid some hotheads will cause trouble and somdbody will get The General also said that mass meeting wou'd have a influence on the residents Philippines Styer flanked by Maj Walter A Wood Jr Chief Staff and Maj Gen Russell Reynolds in charge of pesonnel told the I committeemen that the AWESPAC had been reduced to around 335000 men from its 600000 strength Oct 1 He esti mated it would be qut to about 100000 within three mouths The General told the men he would arrange if the men desired it nate subcommittee due week to invesiigate military sur pluses and postwar bases in Pacific One of the pamphlets typical of several that appeared called upon the soldiers to write to their fami lies "telling them about the situa tion out here and urging them tp write their Congressmen request ing them to put pressure on the War Department to release us" According to a War Depart ment the pamphlet continued "demobilization is pro ceeding at alarming rapidity "Alarming from whose point view? Alarming to Generals and Colonels who want to go on playing war and who do not want to go back to being Captains and Majors? Alarming to businessmen who stand to make money having tbeir investments rebuilt at Armytpense? Alarming to the State Department which wants an army to back its imperialism in the ar One outfit announced it was col lecting money from its members to buy advertising in newspapers at home to "turn the heat on the brass hats" tieship include 12000 articles of al! kinds Gold dust was often place of salt to "flavor" by Spanish conquistadores CONEDERATE VET DIES ORSYTH GA (API George Washington Waldrep 98 last Vet eran of the War Between the States in Monroe County died to day He suffered a stroke late in December and up until that time had been active for one so old making weekly trips to town to the barber shop and to visit with friends 'Mommy aaya I gotta quit aeein ya Butch Ya got minorities or Contrary to a misunderstanding of rental regulations a returning veteran does not have preference on an apartment or home that was occupied by him when ha went into service end was later rented to some one else Wilson attorney of the district OPA rental office said today The misunderstanding arose when assistance of Red Cross workers wss enlisted by the fam ily of a service man facing eviction so a returning veteran could occupy the family's apart ment Red Cross workers said they obtained that opinion from an attorney whom they consulted Wilson said a returning veteran is entitled to the apartment or home only if 'he owned the prop erty when he entered service or subsequently acquired the prop erty Not owning the property pre viously or not acquiring it later he cannot displace a present ten ant he explained Under regulations Wilson said the time a veteran must wait to get possession of the property is shorter than in the case ot a non veteran who' purchases rental property and then seeks to evict the tenant TESTED AND OUND EECTIVE GROUP NOSE AND THROAT SPECIALISTS COLUMBUS GA AP) A bridegroom of less than a day is dead as the result of a friendly contest with a fellow guard at Benning to see who would draw his weapon the fatter Coroner Edenfield The dead man is Curb's Bene field Jr of Phenix City Ala an Air orces veteran who was mar ried to Miss Della Lciiton of ort son Saturday night occurred at 2 am Benning Coroner Edenfield tary police as saying a gun in the hand of Colefield Baker Village a former coast guards man fired the fatal shot The croner quoted witnesses as were trying to see who could draw their weapons the quickest cowboy style when the army revolver was fired Number 7 CraUaued rom Page ana Was notified the Dothan radio sta stion issued an appeal to listeners to visit a local funeral home view the body in hopes that man would ba identified Streams of persons visited funeral home in response to broadcast but identification was not established until Sheriff arm er checking on a report that the elder Oliver was seen in the vicin ity of the yards visited the Oliver home There he described the clothes worn by the young man and the elder Oliver accompanied him to the funeral home and made the identification Deputy Sheriff Clayton Adams said Oliver's body was found near the water tank in the railroad yards with the head severed from the shoulders Deputy Adams quoted the two railway employes McGahte and Stovall as saying they were on the switch engine that passed over body and that because of darkness the body was not seen until too late to stop the locomotive Adams reported the two railroad men told him that Oliver and two or possibly three other men had been seen near the coal loading machine in the railroad yards ear lier yesterday afternoon and had warned them to clear the yards When Oliver's body was found no identification papers or papers of any type were discovered in a search of clothing the deputy said adding that later Inst night a pock etbook and papers belonging to Oliver were found by a night police man behind a store building in downtown Dothan Sheriff armer quoted the older Oliver as saying that his son was witli him a part of yesterday aft ernoon near the railway yards but later both started home with the young man going with in a block ot the residence before turning and telling his father he was going back to town John Spann East Lafayette street resident was quoted by the sheriff as saying he saw young Oliver near the railway yards early yes terday afternoon The sheriff said two Sykes and another identified as Roy Jackson of were report ed to have been in the company of Oliver yesterday Both men were brought Io the County jail this morning for questioning but the sheriff said Jackson was to be released about noon Tle two railway men McGehee and Stovall could not be reached for questioning this morning by an Eagle reporter Bennett Cen tral of Georgia official said the two were in Albany Ga today Relatives of young Oliver said he had returned to Dothaqjabout three weeks ago from Germany At the time of tris death lie was wearing an Army discharge button in the lapel of his coat officers said Deputy Adams also acting as coroner said early today a verdict had not been rendered in the case pending arrival of the State toxicol ogist sometime late this afternoon or tonight Surviving Oliver are his parents Mr and Mrs Oliver of Dothan a sister Miss Gladys Oliver of Dothan and a brother Wesley Byrd Oliver Army in Washington uneral arrangements have not been announced pending arrival of the brother from Washington Ward Wilson is in charge Numbar 1 Cootlnaed rom Page One "It cannot properly be con tended that the commanding gen eral of an American occupational force becomes a criminal every time an American soldier violates the law It is the basic premise of all civilized criminal justice that one man is not held to answer for the crime of Yamashita's lawyers first tried unsuccessfully to have the Philip pine Supreme Court grant him a writ of habeas corpus to take him out of the hands of the military In appealing to the Supreme Court here they argued that the island Supreme Court was wrong in finding that the American mili tary commission was acting pro perly because they said "there was no martial law no military government of occupied territory and no active in Philippines CRACK SAE BIRMINGHAM ALA (APL) Safe crackers knocked the com bination lock off the safe in the A A Adams Rea! Estate Co and removed $378 in cash and left checks scattered about the of fice The robbery was discovered by a janitor Police also found an attempt had been made fo open the safe at the office of the Wainwright Realty Co but the attempt was unsuccess ful QUILT PIECES My Mg bargain package beautiful fart eokr quilt piece Includes giant tool thread frea 18 aclaetad quilt patterns plu enough assorted colorful goods to make ever 1203 quilt patches special 149 COD plus pottage 200 per cent sstiifirtjon money back guarantee Send no Bioaey Pay peatman Mary Caidwell Craft Remanent Co Dept 362 Hfcom fngton III ree! for prompt latest Trail Blasers Almanoae Clip thia Two Children Suffer Critical Injuries When Gun Discharged MARIANNA Lewis Vorbin six and Bill Corbin ten are in aJackson County hospital here gun shot wounds suffered when they front when it was fired by their brother Buck Corbin fifteen The boys were playing with the in the yard of their horns a minutes after their parents left the home for downtown So Easily Mixed! No Cooking Saves Big Dollars Real Relief Te Indeed this home mixed cough aynip made in your own kitchen is one of the most effective things ever found for coughs due to colds It's so easy to mix a child could do IL And it naves rood money too Make a syrup by stirring 2 cups ot granulated sugar and 1 cup of water a few moments until dissolved No cooking needed Or you can use corn syrun or liquid honey if desired Get 2 ounces ot Ilnex from your throat and bronchial Irritations Just oruggist ana pur it into a pint pottle Then fill tha pint with your syrup EDITS BANNER CULLMAN ALA (AP) The Cullman Banner has announced appointment of Roden Jr as manager and editor A veteran of several years in newspaper work Roden was recently dis charged from the armed forces He attended St Bernard College and studied journalism at the University of Alabama Stores carried by a large bat different Outlines Procedure or Social Security Harry Scott maWw Dothan Social Security daw raaueated that rb 1 siring Social Security ows an wucouuua Uli SS5 and mail to the DmxjT fisfo Numerous requests for: Security cards have bem in the Dothan office and the requests are merely i with no information other thal said 1 When such letters are the Dothan office mails to tht sun icmuvsmjk a earn Iron SSts That apphcatlne returned to the office a ws questions answered becnw' permanent official rteo can De lieu in laser wim a claim he explainer! If all persons particuIaAL icemen and ex war would get a copy of SSS7 ther a EmploymentCS va a XZM'VL S'lnw Questions and mail to th! instead of writing us for i JI JI WUU4U JaC MUCU said nDRY ITCHY SCAD TWGrt relief from Itchin Jndry acalp and help remow 7 jlooM dandruff flak m3 wwsawLiwa naia DR Glasses Comdll itted Phone 372 KILLED IN WRECK ATMORE ALA AP) James Donaldson about 25 of At more was fatally injured when the automobile in which lie was riding was in collision with a truck on Highway 31 about a mi'e north of here last night Alabama Highway Patrolmen Oscar Mur phy and Jack Patrick reported House Priority Unless He Was Owner STUY NOSTRILS Whan Matrfla are dogged and your aose feels raw membranes swollen reach for cooling tooth ing Meniholatam Spread it inside nostrils and snuff well back Instantly it starts to 1 Help thin out thick mucus 2) Soothe irritated membranes 3) Help reduce swelling 4) Stimu late local blood supply to area Every breath brings quick welcome relief To open stuffy nostrils get effective Mentholstum today the Medicated Nasal Unguent Jars tubes 30g Number Con tinned rom Page One sue an advance notice of the ceilings under terms of the price control act He asserted that OPA was going to do everything in it power to hold down prices of clothing and textiles "basic ele ments in the cost of He added that OPA has been Deal Joins Dothan Veterans' Adminisfralion wlir neat arrived morning at the Dothan office of the Veterans Administration to at suma temporary duties here in as sisting contact representative Thornton in the un usually heavy work load of the local office A native of Dothan and veteran War I Deal comes to the Dothan office from Montgomery where he was a contact representative The new Dothan CA official ex pects to be here from two to three weeks "We are having upwards of 100 callers per day Thornton stated this and filling from 20 to 30 applications for veterans who want training or other benefits or assistance" Contact representative Deel Will Thornton In other administrative duties will heve another per manent addition to the staff in two or three Thornton said "but I don't know yet who the new member will be" The Dothan sub regional office has assisted more veterans in ob taining benefits due (hem under the I Bill of Rights and Pub lic Law No 18 than any other of fice of the Veterans Administra tion in Alabama ive thousand five hundred and five veterans have received information or as sistance from the Dothan office during the nine and a half month period since the branch was es tablished here in March John Curtrght trining of ficer was added to the staff last' week to assist disabled veteran entitled to vacation and rehabilita tion training under Public Law No 16 Member of a pioneer Houston County family Deal was a Civil Service Representative in lorida and Alabama of the ifth Civil Service region before becoming associated with the VA last fall He was in the mercantile business in Dothan for a number of years Deal is a member of the Ameri can Legion and a Shriner OUT OP NAVY Ray Carswell coxswain of Carswell Sr 205 St Andrews St has been discharged after 30 months Naval duty at the Navy Personnel Separation Center Memphis Tenn the pub lie information office has announc ed In 22 months duty with the Sea bees in the Pacific he participatedin two engagements He wears two battle stars a Captain's Commend ation and unit citation Eyes Scientifically Examined 141 WT a rxsi xs uaici xruiiian Rev Saunders Ha Ministerial Group The Rev Ross Saundert tor of tne Church or the Ni today was selected president a Dothan Ministerial Associate 1946 Other newly elected officers eluded tne Kev Nortfon dy pastor of the irst Pres! Church vice president and the Lawrence Baxter rector of Episcopal Church of the Nat as secretary treasurer I January 15 Is Tax Deadline or Ten Million Americans 13 Negroes Leave or Army Exams Thirteen Negroes from Do than and Houaton County left to day from local Selective Service where they will receive pre in duction physical examinations Six selectees Charles Askew Samuel Beachem Jr Jessie Koonce Jr James Anderibn Henry Shiver and John McDan iel were registered with Selective Service Board No 1 Sent from board number two were Tommie Lee Beachem Wil lie Leah Reva Glen Miller Archie Lee Skipper and Walter James Holland Registered with the third board were Curtis Harris and John Henry Williams In the State of Alabama by the Alabarno State Board of Public Accounting 7 Effective Nov 9 1945 RECORD RAINALL NASHVILLE TENN (AP) More than six Inches of rain pour ed on Nashville in 12 hours prior to 8 am today the greatest rainrall on record period The Cumberland from 14 50 to 2950 state is 40 feet The Weather Bureau predicted continued rain for today cotton 'impracti Jackson he believed the OPA chief the step "because of pres of cotton manufacturers" appeal for public hearings before ceilings were clamped down was voiced by Rep Pace (D Ga) of Americus Ga Jong recognized as a cotton spokesman Pace as serted cotton production costs es pecially labor were up tremend ously and must be considered in fixing prices ear that the ceilings might be set at cotton parity prices was ex pressed by Mann general manager of the North Carolina cotton growers cooperative He said that if this were dorw he would have "plenty to about it Mann calculated present cotton prices at about $4 a bale over parity and asserted that "this is too low" RETURNS TO PAPEH CENTRE Ata Joseph Shaw Jr has been discharged from the Army and has returned associate editor and publisher the Cherokee County Herald was assistant publisher entered service in 1942 COTTONSEED COTTONSEED OR PLANTING! WE HAVE A LIMITED QUANTITY Coker 100 Wilt Strain 5 DIRECT ROM BREEDER Coker Pedigreed Seed Co Due to rains etc good cottonseed are very scarce so book your needs now These seeds come in 1001b sealed bags and are of Standard Germination and meet all Government and state tests See Hugh Spann or Earl Hammond at the YOUNG DRUG CO SPANN HAMMOND This Home Made Cough Syrup Beats Them All STRICKLAND and McDANIEL Tape pleasure in announcing the designation of a ber of the accounting staff of their Dothan office' Southside Granite Co MEMORIALS 825 Appletreo Phone 218 Cay Brunson Jack Kingry CHARLES A SENNA JR AS A CERTIIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT RECAPPING VULCANIZING Complete Tire Official Inspection Station No NO NOX GULPRIPSjO 31 TIRE SERVICE ROY SCARBOROUGH JACK South Oatea at Crawford Phone 31 Road Service 4 Anti Tuberculosis Group Makes Report During 1848 funds' from the Houston County Anti luberculoste Association paid for 1678 patient hospital daya for patients from this county statistics at the coun ty health department revealed The Houston County Anti Tu berculosis Association of which Jesse orrester is president and Skeen secretary and treas urer is supported jointly by the Dothan Community Chest and Ashford Columbia and Cotton wood At present there are six hos pitalized patients from this coun ty in the State sanatorium I JiSL I U1 I 1 1 1 1 MMrs Ber ImKs Ba iSBr SE? 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