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WHITEWRIGHT, GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1943.
VOL. 58, NO. 27.
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TAXES IN BRITAIN
$50
German Offensive.
Proving Costly in
Men and Materiel
Smokers Find That
Cigarette Tax Is
Cheaper Than Fine
20,000 Cigarettes
Sent to Soldiers
Board Urges Care
In Filing Application
For New “A” Book
G. O. P. Nationalists
Indorse McCormick
Court Order Says
Too Much Cloth
In Zoot Suit
Old-Record Drive to
Be Nation-Wide
Jap-Hunting Is
Made Ball Game
NEW, HIGHER
WARTIME TAX
PLAN PONDERED
FARM BILL GOES
TO WHITE HOUSE
COMMUNITY SERVICE
TO HONOR SERVICEMEN
BRITISH WAR WORK
PAY AVERAGES $22.78
MUST TRANSFER
BEFORE AUG. 1
sta-
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Lieut. Thomas E. Sears, stationed
at Warner Robins Air Depot, Warner
Robins, Ga., visited his mother, Mrs.
T. E. Sears, here Wednesday. He is
now at Denton with his wife, and
will return to his station Sunday.
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NEW YORK.—A nation-wide drive
to collect a major part of the na-
tion’s estimated 200,000,000 old rec-
ords for conversion into brand new
discs to entertain American service-
men in foreign lands got under way
Saturday.
...
The Navajo Indians believe that
cooking dumplings in the summer
time will bring on a hailstorm.
RURAL^ STUDENTS American Troops
Land Near Jap Air
Base in Solomons
With the Men
in Uniform
Pvt. Billy Roberts of Camp Howze
■visited his wife and mother here over
"the week-end.
Major Seldon L. McMillin, native
of Whitewright and nephew of Mrs.
H. T. Arterberry and J. C. McMillin
of this city, was reported missing in
action since June 25, according to in-
formation received from the War De-
partment by his mother, Mrs. Hope
Whyte, 3837 Normandy, Dallas. Ma-
jor McMillin’s father, J. M. McMil-
lin, also lives in Dallas. Pilot of a
Plying Fortress, Major McMillin had
heen in the European theatre of war
only a short time. A graduate of
Highland Park High School and Vir-
ginia Military Institute, he received
his wings on Christmas Day, 1941, at
Brooks Field. A brother, Major Dan
Scott McMillin, is an instructor in
the cavalry school at Fort Riley, Kan.
Lieut. Robert Doss, concluding ten
days’ leave, went to Fort Sill, Okla.,
Saturday where he will take a course
of instruction in the Field Artillery
/battalion motor officer school.
PHILADELPHIA. — United States
troops in the Solomon Islands turned
Jap-hunting into a game like base-
ball, reports Pvt. Anthony Coan Jr.,
just back from the South Pacific.
“We play it when we go out on
patrol,” he said. “Each man is given
a team name such as the Phillies or
Dodgers. Each Jap killed counts as a
run.
The Sun is requested to announce
that on Sunday at 3 p. m., July 11th,
at the Enterprise Baptist Church, a
service will be held honoring the
young men of the Ely community
who are now in the service of their
country.
The program will consist of music,
salute to the Flag, presentation of
service flags, roll call, prayer and an
address.
Special invitations have been sent
to the parents of the men in service.
Thirty-eight homes in the Ely com-
munity have forty-nine men in ser-
vice, according to a survey made by
members of the Enterprise Baptist
Church. Everyone is invited to
tend the service.
Children from rural districts who
expect to attend the Whitewright
schools next fall must transfer before
August 1. Transfer forms may be
obtained from the county superin-
tendent’s office at Sherman or from
the superintendent of the White-
wright schools, or the secretary of
the Whitewright Board of Education,
R. A. Gillett.
A pupil must make transfer each
year he attends a school outside of
his own district. A number is trans-
ferred into the Whitewright Inde-
pendent school district each year, and
transfers must be made before Aug.
1.
have
son, Pfc.
overseas
Edgar Burchfield, S/lc, of the U.
’S. Navy, is visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. H. Burchfield, and other
relatives here this week. Seaman
Burchfield is stationed at Treasure
Island, Calif. He expects to make a
long trip in the Pacific on his return
to duty.
Intensification of the American of-
fensive in both North and South Pa-
cific theatres had developed Thurs-
day as United States troops landed at
two additional points near the Jap-
anese air base at Munda and a land-
ing on Kiska Island in the Aleutians
was believed imminent.
A noon communique from Allied
Headquarters in Australia Thursday
also announced that the American
naval victory at Kula Gulf was
greater than had been reported pre-
viously. Nine Japanese destroyers
and cruisers were sunk in the action,
the communique said, and American
losses were limited to one cruiser
and one destroyer.
The landings near Munda, which is
the immediate objective of the cen-
tral Solomons offensive, were at Rice
Anchorage four miles northeast of
Boiroko and at Zanzna, six miles east
of Munda.
At the other end of the 700-mile
battle arc where American and Aus-
tralians hold positions near Sala-
maua, New Guinea, Allied planes
dropped more than 100 tons of bombs
on Japanese positions near Mubo.
The communique announcement
that the Japanese definitely lost nine
ships in the Kula Gulf battle Mon-
day night, increased the extent of
the American triumph. Wednesdays
communique had reported that six
enemy ships probably were sunk
and four damaged as against the loss
on our side of a cruiser, since
closed to be the Helena. The
stroyer Strong also was lost in
sector.
The progress of the American of-
fensive in the Solomons was admit-
ted in a left-handed way by Tokyo
Radio in a broadcast to Italy. “Their
efforts are simply desperate,” the
broadcast said. “Let us admit with
complete frankness the surprising
stubbornness of the enemy.”
In addition to reporting the aerial
bombardment at Mubo which is 12
miles below Salamaua, the commu-
nique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur
also announced the capture by Aus-
tralians of an important hill there.”
The Japanese continued to send
more planes against Rendova Island,
seized in the Central Solomons June
30 within artillery shelling distance
of Munda. In the latest raid, they
lost 12 bombers and fighters, the
communique said.
Japanese losses in this sector alone
now approximate 180.
The Munda air base, on which the
Americans now have increased their
pressure with the new landings, was
first developed by the Japanese last
December but they have been unable
to make much out of it because of
repeated poundings it has been given
from the air.
In American hands, it would pro-
vide an airdrome within fighter plane
range of the big Japanese air and
shipping fortress of Rabaul, New
Britain.
Indirect taxes are very high in
Britain. More than half the price of
a pint of beer goes in tax. Twenty
cigarettes cost 47 cents, of which 37
cents is tax. On a $1.20 seat at a
movie house, 51 cents is tax. On an
income of $4,000, a married man with
two children would pay about $400 in
indirect tax, in addition to $1,600 in
direct tax.
WASHINGTON.—The Senate sent
the $842,291,885 farm bill to the
White House Monday after bowing to
House demands for abandonment of
crop insurance, but farm bloc Sena-
tors quickly revived the campaign
for continuance of the insurance pro-
gram through an amendment to an-
other measure.
In a flurry of action, the Senate
first voted 44 to-23 to-give up a Sen-
ate amendment providing the Fed-
eral Crop Insurance Corporation
with $7,818,748 for cotton and wheat
crop insurance and to accept a House
provision of $3,500,000 for liquidation
of the agency.
Two hours later, with the farm bill
on the way to the White House, farm
bloc strategists hitched the crop in-
surance extension amendment to a
$358,600,000 catch-all appropriation
bill which contained only $36,158,000
as it left the House.
The FCIC program provides insur-
ance against weather and other nat-
ural hazards to wheat and cotton
crops and guarantees the farmer ■ 50
to 75 per cent of his average yield.
Both premiums and indemnities are
paid in the commodity insured. Con-
gressional critics argue that losses
have been so much heavier than
premiums that the program does not
work out on an actuarial basis; that
it is “relief” rather than “insurance.”
Sgt. and Mrs. Granvolee Hansard
■of Coffeyville, Kansas, visited rela-
tives here during the past week.
Raymond E. Kerby, who is
tioned at Fort Sill, Okla., has
promoted to corporal. Cpl. Kerby
was a member of the Whitewright
High School faculty when he was
called into service several months
ago. His wife, Mrs. Virginia Mae
Kerby, is a member of the Grade
School faculty.
I
Sponsoring the drive is an organi-
zation known as Records For Our
Fighting Men, Inc., composed of 100
radio and musical artists, the Amer-
ican Legion and the Legion Auxil-
iary.
Kynard R. Auten, son of Mr. and
Mrs. N. T. Auten of Whitewright,
was commissioned a second lieuten-
ant in the U. S. Cavalry last Thurs-
day upon completion of a three-
rnonth course in the Cavalry Officer
Candidate School at Fort Riley, Kan-
sas. His wife had been staying with
his parents here while he was in
school and he joined her here last
week-end, and she will accompany
'him back to Fort Riley Friday. Lieu-
tenant Auten has been in the Army
for five years, and was a Cavalry
instructor for about two years before
.going to OCS. He has a brother,
Staff Sgt. Leonard Auten, with an
Army Air Force bomber squadron in
.England.
“A real diplomat is the man who
can make his wife believe a
dress makes her look stout.”
More names have been added
The Sun honor roll this week, which
the publisher appreciates very much.
There has not been a week this year
that new names have not been added
to The Sun subscription list. With
the production of newsprint being i
reduced, the time may come when it
will be impossible to add new names
to the subscription list. Many of the
larger newspapers are now being
compelled to refuse new subscrip-
tions. So, now is the time to sub-
scribe for The Sun to be sure of re-
ceiving the best small town newspa-
per in Texas for the next year.
The following have had their
names added to The Sun honor roll
this week:
Pvt. Teeman L. Sanders.
J. W. Hollingsworth.
N. L. Manning.
Glen Cole.
Geraldine Garner.
M. O. Miller.
C. B. Bryant III.
Mrs. C. E. Glass.
E. M. Badgett.
S. H. Murphy.
W. L. Johns.
CHICAGO.—A meeting sponsored
by the Republican Nationalist Re-
vival Committee, its secretary, Wil-
liam Grace, announced July 2,
adopted a resolution calling upon
Col. Robert R. McCormick, publisher
of the Chicago Tribune, “to stand as
a Republican candidate for Presi-
dent” in the Illinois presidential
preferential primary next April
“against Wendell Willkie’, who per-
sonifies internationalism.”
The resolution, which Mr.
said was passed unanimously,
Colonel McCormick “is known
throughout the nation as an Ameri-
can nationalist, and as a leader in
the Republican party,” and Mr. Will-
kie “again obviously a candidate for
President, is as well known as an in-
ternationalist.”
The committee sponsoring the ral-
ly was organized recently with the
announced aim to help maintain the
Republican party as the “Nationalist
Party” in American politics. Its pro-
posed declaration of principles ex-
presses opposition to Mr. Willkie,
stating “he and his followers are in-
ternationalists.”
“So you are building a new house,
eh? How are you getting along with
it?”
“Fine. I’ve got the roof and the
mortgage on it, and I expect to have
the furnace and the sheriff in before
fall.”
David F. Roddy, son of Mr. and
Mrs. D. M. Roddy of Denison route 3,
has been promoted from second lieu-
tenant to first lieutenant in the
Army. A graduate of Denison High
School and Texas A. & M. College,
. where he majored in electrical engi-
neering, he received his commission
as second lieutenant in May, 1942,
and was sent to Fort Monmouth, N.
J., for training in radio. Last July he
was assigned to duty with a radio
and signal intelligence company at
Camp Crowder, Mo. Lieutenant Rod-
dy received his promotion to first
lieutenant June 23 while on maneu-
vers with the Army in Tennessee.
Mr. and Mrs. Roddy have another
son, Lloyd W. Roddy, in the Army.
He is attending the Chemcial Warfare
Officer Candidate School at Edge-
wood Arsenal, Maryland. Lloyd at-
tended school in Whitewright four
years and graduated from Denison
High School in 1940. He attended
Texas A. & M. Coliege for three
.years before entering the Army. At
the time of induction he Was serving
as cadet captain of Co. A, Chemical
Warfare Service; was a distinguished
student; received the best drill medal
of Co. A, and was presented a gold
watch as a token of appreciation of
his services as cadet captain of his
company. Upon completion of the
course at Edgewood Arsenal about
Nov. 1, Cadet Roddy will recevie his
commission as second lieutenant.
Mrs. D. M. Roddy, mother of David
and Lloyd, is a member of the
Whitewrgiht High School faculty.
Pvt. James P. Claborn has re-
turned to Camp McCoy, Wis., after
spending a 10-day furlough with his
mother, Mrs. May Claborn, near
Randolph.
Pvt. Pete Ford left for California
today, after a visit with his father, J.
R. Ford.
DENISON. —< The Denison War
Price and Ration Board has had some
trouble this week with the renewal
application for the basic “A” gaso-
line books. Many of the applications
have had to be returned to the appli-
cants beccftise of failure to complete
the forms. However, the, greatest
trouble has come with the applicants
filling in the space on form that is
designated Board Action. The appli-
cants are not to fill in anything in
this particular space.
In filling out the application it is
necessary for the applicant to fill in
all material within the heavy black
lines on the sheet, sign it in the up-
per right hand corner and put the
date on it, and answer the two ques-
tions at the top of the paper. It is
not necessary for a tire inspector to
sign the application blank; however,
it is necessary to turn the back of the
“A” book and the tire inspection
sheet in with the paplication book.
The applicant is to make sure that
his name and address has been filled
in on the back of the old “A” book
and the tire inspection sheet must
show at least one inspection. If the
applicant will follow carefully . the
instructions given on the back of the
application blank much delay and
trouble will be avoided. The renew-
als are coining in rapidly to the OPA
office here and applicants are re-
minded that they are to get these re-
newals in to the War Price and Ra-
tion Board before the old “A” book
expires July 21, 1943.
DENISON.—Cigarette smokers are
warned that it is cheaper to pay the
state tax 'than to face the minimum
penalty of a $25 fine.
That it is cheaper to pay the tax
can be attested by at least two Deni-
sonians who ordered cigarettes from
an out-of-state concern, not paying
the Texas tax; two in Sherman have
been charged in recent weeks on the
same count; and several others in
both Denison and Sherman are sus-
pected of importing cigarettes on
which the state tax is not paid.
This is reported here by R. D. Et-
ter and E. A. Fernandez of the state
comptroller’s department, who are
charged with seeing that legal taxes
are paid.
Both Denisonians apprehended
have admitted their guilt and have
paid the minimum penalty of $25,
plus 60 cents a carton tax. Neither
is looked upon by the state agents as
a deliberate violator and the state
representatives recommended the
minimum civil penalty, not resorting
to the stronger criminal penalty.
Cigarette companies in states
where there is no state tax advertise
the cigarettes, generally by direct
mail, promising to deliver the cig-
arettes by mail, leaving the inference
that no law. is violated when the U.
S. mail is used.
Such an inference, however, can
prove costly to the buyer—not the
seller—if the purchaser is appre-
hended by the comptroller’s agents,
and that is one state department that
never has been accused of laxity.
re-
week from
yeoman
Saturday, which had been desig-
nated General MacArthur’s Cigarette
Day, resulted in $61.91 being con-
tributed in Whitewright for the pur-
chase of cigarettes to be sent to the
boys in the armed forces of the
United States. Monday an order was
given for 20,000 cigarettes, 10,000 to
be sent to the Pacific and 10,000 to
Africa. Each package will have a
sticker on it showing that it was sent
from Whitewright. The American
Legion, the Legion Auxiliary and the
Rotary Club cooperated in raising the
money to purchase the cigarettes.
Several young women worked on the
streets Saturday afternoon and night
soliciting donations to the fund.
Each 5-cent piece purchased one
package of 20 cigarettes, making a
total of 1,000 packages of cigarettes
sent to our fighting men in far away
lands. It is hoped some of the pack-
ages fall into the hands of White-
wright boys.
Jars are still in most of the busi-
ness houses for receiving donations to
the fund, and when a sufficient
amount is received another order for
20,000 cigarettes will be placed.
LONDON.—The German army
three days has suffered the most
staggering losses in its history—30,-
000 dead, 1,539 tanks destroyed or
damaged, and 649 airplanes shot
down—and has failed to achieve a
major breakthrough in its gigantic
gamble in Russia, it was announced
early Thursday in Moscow.
The Axis hurled thirty divisions, or
450,000 men, against the Russians on
the Orel-Kursk-Belgorod sector, but
“did not catch our troops unawares,”
said a special Soviet announcement
I broadcast by Moscow.
| “Only in a few sections of the Bel-
gorod area has the enemy, at the cost
of enormous losses, succeeded in
driving significant wedges into our
defenses.”
The regular midnight bulletin had
acknowledged the German capture
of an additional few v v i 1 la g e s
Wednesday in the Belgorod sector at
the end of the flaming 200-mile front
where two villages already had been
taken by the enemy
day’s fighting.
The latest Soviet
made no attempt to
power of the German threat, but said
flatly that in the first three days the
Germans, despite the size of their of-
fensive, had met with no success.
Reds Claim Offensive
“Hitler headquarters’ liars” also
were taunted in the confident Mos-
cow broadcast for their original as-
sertion that the Red Army, and not
the Germans, had launched an offen-
sive.
Berlin broadcasts heard here
Wednesday night made it cleai" that
the Germans now were admitting
their troops were engaged in another
major offensive.
“Hitler could not afford to wait
until summer was over without any
action on the part of the German
Army,” said the Moscow announce-
ment.
The German aim in starting the
huge drive last Monday was the
quick encirclement and annihilation
of Russian forces holding the Kursk
salient above Belgorod, the state-
ment added, but it said that plan had
been frustrated by the Red Army.
WASHINGTON.—The House ways
and means committee Tuesday de-
cided to start work Sept. 8 on legis-
lation to obtain new and higher war-
time taxes, with first emphasis on
digging deeper into the pockets of
persons with war-swollen incomes.
The Treasury’s goal is twelve bil-
lion dollars in revenue annually
above present collections.
In a special session as a congres-
sional recess neared, the tax-framing
committee:
1. Requested the committee tax
staff and the Treasury to suggest
alternative means of raising addi-
tional revenue: With specific in-
structions to study and report on the
feasibility of raising additional rev-
enue by means of an individual ex-
cess-profits tax.
2. Agreed there would be no re-
troactive taxes—that the main fea-
tures of the new tax bill would not
become effective before Jan. 1.
Chairman Robert L. Doughton
(Dem.) of North Carolina said the
fifteen Democrats and ten Republi-
cans of the committee agreed to ap-
proach the problem of increasing
revenues on a nonpartisan basis—in
contrast to the recent bitter party
difference over pay-as-you-go legis-
lation.
Public hearings on the new general
tax measure, increasing the present
revenue—highest on record—will
begin in September.
The committee action came shortly
after Treasury officials disclosed they
were studying means of applying the
principle of excess-profits taxes—
now levied against corporations—to
persons whose incomes have been
swollen because of the war. The plan
probably will embody a broadening
of the present system of basic in-
come tax exemptions to include con-
sideration of normal income.
Application of the excess-profits
principle to individuals would mean
that a person who made $2,400 in
peacetime and now has income of,
say, $4,800 would be taxed heavier
than another person whose salary
was $4,800 in peacetime and has re-
mained constant.
Doughton told newspapermen
“we’re not going to break anybody’s
back, but we realize we’ve got
have more taxes.”
Richard F. (Dick) Simpson, petty
officer, first class, has been missing
since June 24, the Navy Department
has informed his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Paul J. Simpson, 616 Center,
Dallas. He disappeared at sea. He
and his brother, Jack Simpson, en-
listed in the Naval Reserve and were
called to active duty in May, 1941,
while attending North Texas Agri-
cultural College in Arlington. The
brothers had been together on active
service since the attack on Pearl
Harbor. They spent a year in the
South Seas where they participated
in seven major battles. In February
they were at home on a thirty-day
leave, after which they reported for
duty with the Atlantic Fleet. They
are grandsons of Mr. and, Mrs. R. E.
Simpson of Whitewright, and visited
here in February.
Lieut. Hamilton Vestal, U. S. Ma-
rine Corps, writes his parents that he
is in a hospital undergoing treatment
■for malaria. The Sun reaches Lieu-
tenant Vestal in the Southwest Pa-
cific, about six weeks after publica-
tion day, but he said that he cer-
tainly enjoyed reading it.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A zoot
suit dealer has been enjoined from
violating a war production order
specifying the amount of cloth avail-
able for men’s garments.
In perhaps the nation’s first case
of its kind, Federal Judge Paul J
McCormick issued the order against
Jack Lamm, clothing store proprie-
tor. Howard D. Chaffey, WPB in-
vestigator, told the court he saw sev-
eral suits in Lamm’s store which he
thought were made of excessive
cloth.
Lieut. Bill White of the Army Fer-
ry Command visited his mother, Mrs.
W. L. White, over the week-end.
’Lieutenant White has been ferrying
bomber planes across the Atlantic.
Pvt. Teeman L. Sanders has been
transferred from Hamilton Field,
Calif., 'to McChord Field, Wash.,
where he is attached to Det. No. 5,
'2066th Ordnance Co., Service Avia-
tion, at the Army Air Base. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Sanders.
Aviation Cadet Billy Smith, son of
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Smith of the
Canaan community, has entered the
Army Air Forces technical school at
Vale University where he will un-
dergo intensive training leading to a
commission as a technical officer in
aircraft maintenance engineering
"with the rank of second lieutenant.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Kaiser
ceived two letters this
"their son, Ralph B. Kaiser,
"third class, on duty with the Pacific
fleeT. It was the first word they had
received from him in two
Their other son, Jimmie Kaiser,
called them this week from Corpus
Christi to tell them that he had fin-
ished boot camp training.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Brown
been advised that their
Clyde Brown, has landed
with an infantry regiment.
LONDON. — The average weekly
wage for the British factory worker
is $22.78 for men and $11.72 for
women, a Ministry of Labor survey
showed.
The survey was made among 6,-
250,000 workers in 50,000 manufac-
turing firms of all types.
Men’s wages have risen 74.9 per
cent and women’s 80 per cent since
October, 1938, according to the sur-
vey.
The average increase for the same
number of hours worked as five
years ago was only 27 per cent, one
official said, while the cost of living
for the same period jumped 28 per
cent.
The men in aircraft plants aver-
age $29.94 and are the best paid
workers.
Coal miners were excluded from
the survey, but a note in the Minis-
try of Labor Gazette showed
their average fdr six shifts
$22.18.
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