Widow of Senator Lundeen pleads for ‘justice’ in court
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Japs claim 3 warships
Report sinking heavy cruiser of British and 2 destroyers
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Labor case is ruled out
Supreme Court decides anti-racketeering act does not apply
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The Pittsburgh Press (March 2, 1942)
Rambling Reporter
By Ernie Pyle
PASO ROBLES, Calif. – While we’re driving southward toward the land of sunshine and contentment, we’ll pause to throw in a few scraps from the scrap
heap.
Such as the fact that I happened to be in Salinas, Calif., on the week-end of registration for the draft, so that’s where I gave myself to my country.
There wasn’t anybody else in the place when I went in, and the two men and one woman in charge were very pleasant and chatty. For some reason I had figured they’d be grave and even nasty, like a judge sentencing you to the penitentiary. But they weren’t.
When I gave my full name (my middle name is Taylor) the man said, “Why, that’s my last name.”
When I left, they called after me, “Next time you want to register just come around.”
Now if the Army will just be as pleasant with me as the registration people…
I had another experience in Salinas. That was my first sugar rationing in America.
Sugar for one cup only
In the hotel coffee shop, I was given three cubes of sugar for my coffee, which of course is plenty. But when the waitress brought a second cup, she brought no sugar with it.
I asked her for sugar, but she said the manager had rationed customers to sugar for only one cup. I asked her what she brought the second cup for, then. She said because I asked for it. So I handed her the cup back, and we dropped the subject.
It seems to me that manager is taking things a bit into his own hands. The nation isn’t on sugar rationing yet. The government will tell us – and how – when to cut our sugar down. Then we’ll all do it. The way it is now, in Salinas, I just eat at another restaurant.
There are a couple of cute stories in San Francisco about sailors giving away information. One is a “loose-talk” story, the other a “tight-mouth” story. The loose-talk one happened to a close friend of mine.
He was riding on a street car. A sailor sat down beside him and they started talking. My friend said, “I see there are some new ships in the harbor this morning.”
And the sailor said. “Yeah, and the (one of America’s biggest battleships) is in, too. I just got off of her!”
The other story goes like this:
An elderly lady was strolling in one of the city’s hilltop parks and stopped to look down over the bay, where a battleship rode at anchor.
A sailor walked past, stopped nearby, and the lady said to him:
“Young man, what is the name of that ship out there?”
“I don’t know, ma’am,” the sailor said politely.
“And what ship are you from?” the lady asked.
“That one,” the sailor said.
War disrupts Hoosier life
The war is beginning to hit close, now, to many of us. My Aunt Mary unites that all is chaos around our farm community at Dana, Ind.
Construction of the great new munitions plant has started. Farmers are moving from life-long residences on two weeks’ notices; engineers and Army officers are moving into the better-type farm houses; others are being torn down.
Little old Dana is throbbing. A stranger can hardly get a meal, or a place to sleep. A hotel is going up on the corner where Ben Lang’s grocery used to be. Doc Meyers has staked off his pasture, put in gravel streets and lights, and made a trailer city out of it.
New railroad spurs have been built out from Dana, to carry the avalanche of material that is flowing in. New workers have arrived to unload the endless flow of cars bringing steel piping, lumber, machinery.
The town loafers have never had such a three-ring circus to watch. They gather every afternoon into a new railbird regiment, to watch the materials of war being unloaded.
Even my father, who never before could qualify as a town loafer, now drives three miles to town every day after lunch, and sits there all afternoon watching them unload the freight cars.
The last time my Aunt Mary wrote she said it was a rainy, foggy day, and that Dad was fretting for fear it was too bad for him to get to town that afternoon to watch.
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U.S. Navy Department (March 3, 1942)
Navy Communiqué No. 50
Atlantic area.
The USS Jacob Jones (DD-130), a World War destroyer, was sunk by an enemy submarine off Cape May, NJ, just before dawn on February 28, 1942.
There were only 11 survivors consisting of 9 engine room ratings and 2 apprentice seamen. Factual information in regard to the circumstances that led to the sinking is sparse because of the lack of deck ratings among the survivors. It has been established, however, that prior to receiving the first torpedo hit, the enemy submarine was not sighted nor was the torpedo.
The first torpedo blew up the bow and apparently killed all the personnel on the bridge as well as the men sleeping in the forward living compartments. The second torpedo, which was fired after the submarine circled ahead of the Jacob Jones, blew up the stern and all the depth charges.
The only survivors, except one man from the after engine room, were in the midship section when the stern was blown up.
The commanding officer of the USS Jacob Jones was Lt. Cdr. H. D. Black, USN.
The next of kin of those lost have been notified.
There is nothing to report from other areas.
Navy Communiqué No. 51
Central Pacific.
In the course of recent naval operations west of the Gilbert Islands a task force of the Pacific Fleet consisting of an aircraft carrier, cruisers and destroyers, was attacked by 18 heavy bombers of the enemy operating in 2 groups of 9 each.
These attacks occurred in the late afternoon and were timed about one-half hour apart.
The Japanese formations were closely and vigorously engaged by our carrier fighter planes and by antiaircraft fire from the ships of our task force.
Only three enemy planes of the first formation reached their bomb release point over the aircraft carrier which avoided all bomb hits by split second maneuvering.
The leading bomber of this group attempted a crash landing on the carrier and was shot down by heavy close range antiaircraft fire when barely 100 yards from its objective.
In the second attack only five bombers of the enemy formation reached the bomb release point. In this instance the salvo of enemy bombs was closer to the carrier than in the first attack, but again no hits were obtained.
Sixteen of the 18 attacking enemy bombers were shot down in this action. There was no damage to our surface forces.
Lt. (jg.) Edward H. O’Hare, USN, fighter pilot, personally accounted for six bombers of the enemy.
In the two attacks only two of our fighter planes were lost. The pilot of one was recovered.
The next of kin of the lost pilot has been notified.
There is nothing to report from other areas.
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Reading Eagle (March 3, 1942)
Sub sinks U.S. destroyer; at least 100 lost
Only 11 saved in torpedoing off Cape May
Jacob Jones is struck twice, with first shot apparently killing many of personnel
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Jap naval units shell ports in Philippines
Enemy troops disembarking from convoy of four transports escorted by cruiser
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Japs rammed back seven miles on Java
Allies halt invaders at beaches
Nipponese hinted using new type of fire bomb or flamethrowers
3 ships bombed
12 planes of enemy also reported shot down; tanker sunk
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Army may summon men by age groups
Change in draft setup under consideration
Washington, March 3 –
Selective Service officials are completing preparations to permit a change in the system of induction of men into the Army, so that men may be taken by age groups rather than in the order of their draft numbers, it was reported in Army circles here.
The new method would permit the Army to ask national Selective Service headquarters to provide them with men for induction who were of a particular age. The national headquarters in turn would notify local boards throughout the country of the Army’s needs, and set the quotas for each board, not only as to overall numbers, but also as…
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Tax boosts urged to assure war victory
Morgenthau seeks virtual doubling of levies on all incomes
New increases sought in other imposts include whisky, cigarettes
Gas also affected
Soft drinks listed with items of program to be felt in every home
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Paycheck deductions for income tax urged
’Collection at source’ proposed by Secretary to stop spending before time for payment
Washington, March 3 (AP) –
You’ll be finding part of your federal income tax deducted from your paycheck by your employer pretty soon, if Congress approves a suggestion made today by Secretary Morgenthau.
The Treasury head said such “collection at the source” probably would be necessary for the “convenience” of the taxpayer and also to stop him from spending his money in some inflationary way before tax time rolls around. The Secretary asked Congress to give him the authority to start the plan whenever he thought necessary and in any amount up to 10% of a paycheck after allowance of credits for dependents.
Plan outlined
Here’s how it would work at the 10% rate:
Salaries and wages
Any employer paying more than $16 a week to a single person or more than $32 a week to a married person would check off 10% of any wages in excess of those amounts and send the money to the Treasury every month. If the employee had children or other dependents, an additional $8.50 a week would be exempt from the deduction for each dependent. Thus a married man with two children, earning $50 a week, would have an exemption of $32 plus $17, or $49, and his employer would deduct only 10% of the remaining one dollar of his salary, and the Treasury would get 10¢ a week.
Dividends and interest
In certain cases, particularly stock dividends and corporate bond interest, the corporations would deduct a flat 10% (without exemptions) and send it to the Treasury.
Next year, when a person makes out his income tax return, he would compute his tax in the usual way, but take a credit for the amount already collected at the source and pay the difference.
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Australian bases attacked by Japs
Broome and Wyndham hit by Nipponese planes
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U.S. and Brazil sign 3 pacts to increase war measures
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List covers many items
Treasury suggestions for additional toll sent to Congress
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U.S. island shelled off Puerto Rico
Submarine presumed to blame; no casualties
San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 3 (AP) –
An enemy ship shelled Mona Island off Puerto Rico’s westernmost extremity last night, Gov. Rexford Guy Tugwell’s office announced today.
It was the first shelling of United States territory on the Atlantic side since the war started.
Presumably a submarine shelled the island, almost halfway between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
A National Youth Administration camp is on the 20-mile-square island, 50 miles west of Mayagüez.
Remberto Cassaba, assistant head of the camp, reported the attack, but said no damage or casualties resulted.
The shells landed far upon the rocky cliffs of the islands.
Cassaba’s radiogram addressed to Sam P. Gilstray, director of the NYA, said the boys of the youth camp “behaved very well” during the attack.
The telegram added:
We want protection at once.
Forestry officials confirmed the attack.
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WPB announces specifications for ‘victory suit’ styles
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48 seamen missing from four ships sunk
An East Coast Canadian port, March 3 (INS) –
48 seamen were reported missing today as 20 additional survivors from four United Nations vessels sunk by U-boats in the mid-Atlantic reached shore.
Landing of the 20 survivors brought the total rescued to 131 men. The ships, three tankers and a freighter, were attacked and sunk by a U-boat pack. The vessels were said to be in convoy when the attack occurred.
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How new tax schedule would hit most American citizens
Washington, March 3 (AP) –
How the income tax changes which Treasury Secretary Morgenthau recommended today would be “felt in every American home” was illustrated by these comparative tables:
Single person – no dependents
Personal exemption $750
| Net income before personal exemption | Tax (at present) | Tax proposal |
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| $800 | $3 | $8 |
| $900 | $11 | $24 |
| $1,000 | $21 | $40 |
| $1,100 | $31 | $56 |
| $1,200 | $40 | $72 |
| $1,500 | $69 | $128 |
| $1,600 | $79 | $147 |
| $2,000 | $117 | $230 |
| $2,500 | $165 | $345 |
| $3,000 | $221 | $470 |
| $4,000 | $347 | $735 |
| $5,000 | $483 | $1,023 |
| $6,000 | $649 | $1,333 |
| $8,000 | $1,031 | $1,990 |
| $10,000 | $1,493 | $2,720 |
| $12,500 | $2,178 | $3,740 |
| $15,000 | $2,994 | $4,888 |
| $20,000 | $4,929 | $7,473 |
| $25,000 | $7,224 | $10,418 |
| $50,000 | $20,882 | $27,715 |
| $75,000 | $36,487 | $48,055 |
| $100,000 | $53,214 | $69,625 |
| $500,000 | $345,654 | $429,610 |
| $1,000,000 | $733,139 | $879,610 |
| $5,000,000 | $3,923,124 | $4,479,610 |
Married – no dependents
Personal exemption $1,500
| Net income before personal exemption | Tax (at present) | Tax proposal |
|---|---|---|
| $1,500 | __ | __ |
| $1,600 | $6 | $16 |
| $1,700 | $13 | $32 |
| $1,800 | $23 | $48 |
| $1,900 | $32 | $64 |
| $2,000 | $42 | $80 |
| 2,100 | 52 | 99 |
| 2,200 | 61 | 118 |
| 2,300 | 71 | 137 |
| 2,400 | 80 | 156 |
| $2,500 | $90 | $175 |
| $3,000 | $138 | $285 |
| $4,000 | $249 | $535 |
| $5,000 | $375 | $805 |
| $6,000 | $521 | $1,100 |
| $8,000 | $873 | $1,735 |
| $10,000 | $1,305 | $2,435 |
| $12,500 | $1,960 | $3,425 |
| $15,000 | $2,739 | $4,535 |
| $20,000 | $4,614 | $7,060 |
| $25,000 | $6,864 | $9,960 |
| $50,000 | $20,439 | $27,145 |
| $75,000 | $35,999 | $47,425 |
| $100,000 | $52,704 | $68,965 |
| $500,000 | $345,084 | $428,935 |
| $1,000,000 | $732,554 | $878,935 |
| $5,000,000 | $3,922,524 | $4,478,935 |
Married – two dependents
Personal exemption $1,500, dependent credit, $490 each
| Net income before personal exemption | Tax (at present) | Tax proposal |
|---|---|---|
| $2,300 | __ | __ |
| $2,400 | $6 | $16 |
| $2,500 | $12 | $32 |
| $2,700 | $29 | $64 |
| $3,000 | $58 | $118 |
| $4,000 | $154 | $333 |
| $5,000 | $271 | $587 |
| $6,000 | $397 | $861 |
| $8,000 | $717 | $1,472 |
| $10,000 | $1,117 | $2,143 |
| $12,500 | $1,728 | $3,089 |
| $15,000 | $2,475 | $4,167 |
| $20,000 | $4,287 | $6,629 |
| $25,000 | $6,480 | $9,472 |
| $50,000 | $19,967 | $26,537 |
| $75,000 | $35,479 | $46,753 |
| $100,000 | $52,160 | $68,261 |
| $500,000 | $344,476 | $428,215 |
| $1,000,000 | $731,930 | $878,215 |
| $5,000,000 | $3,921,884 | $4,478,215 |
Army adopts vital zones
Regions on West Coast set as military area; aliens face ban
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Blimps used for ‘ads’ to look soon for subs
Los Angeles, March 3 (AP) –
The blimps Resolute, which used to carry advertising and passengers over Los Angeles, and the Reliance will soon be looking for submarines.
A Navy announcement said the blimps have been accepted for patrol work and renamed the L-4 and L-6, respectively. Their crews have been sworn in for Navy service. The Reliance was flown here from Miami, Fla.
Nelson demands ‘sweat and action’ to increase war output
168-hour week proposed for plants
WPB chief emphasizes need of planes, tanks, guns and ships
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