PAGE BIX EASTER THIS YEAR BY RUTH TAYLOR. It is in the spirit of humility and purpose that we will go out this Ea- | ster morning to celebrate the great | festival of the Church-—-the day that | commemorates not the sorrows of earthly life, not the Way or the Cross | A joe : i but the Resurrection---the Victory of | arn $2,700 or more and are single, | the Spirit over Flesh : | or $3,500 or more and are married. | Day by day We oHmb to our Gol: Midnight that date marks a new | gothas We cannot shift our burdens | 322010E fora rendezvous ig — } mye re oe S| shibboleths of the Nation's pocket- | to one another's shoulders. We can-|pook, if the wage shoe fits. pot shirk the steep hills and the he-| pogjaration of estimated income VY weight that seems as unbearable | an victory tax forms and Wwork- a EDpeal’s nierminable. : .. sheets for 1944 have now been yeces it of solemnity. To a - Se oheilied by most potenti] taxpeyers Lg coming months will bring the end of | “Although the worksheet is similar BE eT De tvs | In appesance Sd general contant fo a ' | For or e p- by the irreligious and inhuman glut. | Form 1040ES Din ber and Decem- tony of the dictators for loot and for | auiy me he nh different. power over the lives of men, to tread | Per, the ar . MH have the narrow ways of sorrow. No one In addition, estimators wi a of us will be unaffected by this war. | the option of two alterna e Works No weight is too heavy, however, sheets. One, quite simple, for anyo no way too long when we know that | $10,000. The otlier, Moe TR ot at the end there will be an Easter jumbo, for others earning more Aan morning. It was this translation of | $10,000 and also for taxpayers win the lessons of religion into the terms | Smaller incomes who prefer oo ma of living that gave those who preced- | closer eslogiations of their 1934 yi ed us strength to endure, courage to| Form 1040ES, w 16.aDe go forward. It :s this spint, this re. same call letters this year, i alization of the ompermanence of ev- out the size of a dollar bill, or a dou- il, that will carry us through the ble sawbuck, for that matter. darkest hours Mathematical changes are the = : ; in Victory tax from five per cent to as He Deate we learn od Tat three per cent Wh elimination of the member the words of Him whose Victory tax crediv. o. over the $2.- Resurrection we celebrate. “Peace I| In addition to those over 2, leave with you, my peace I give unto 700 or $3,500 ceilings, others requir- you; not as th world giveth, give I|ed fo make declarations are individ- unto ycu. Let not your heart be tro- [uals who receive wages not subject ubled, neither let it be afraid. This |to withholding—for example compen- is my commandment, That ye love [sation for agricultural labor or do- one another, as I have loved you. mestic service. Also “eligible are in- Greater love hath no man than this, dividuals who receive incomes from that he lay down his life for his rents, dividends, interest or gains friends.” | from property transactions or from a V——eeeereeee business or profession. COMMITTEE OF HOUSE MEM- Military pay carries an exemption BERS NAMED TO DRAFT THE |of $1,500. Mustering-out payment, POST-WAR MILITARY POLICY | with respect to service in tht military ——— or naval forces of the United States, “Big stick” advocates drew top|also may be excluded from gross spots last week on a 23-man special | income. House committee charged with the, An amended declaration, so mark- task of blueprinting a post-war mili- | ed, may be filed on or before the 15th tary policy for the United States. of June, September or December in The make up of the committee | the ¢vent that the status of the tax- made it almost certain that the group | payer changes. ultimately would recommend reten- Declarations and quarterly pay- tion of a formidable peace time army, | ments of estimated tax are required navy and air force, built up probably | ¢ persons who are not substantially through compulsory military train- paid up on their taxes by withhold- ing. ing them from wages. Heading it is Rep. Clifton A. Wood- A first quarterly installment shown rum, 57-year-old Virginia Democrat, |to be due on the declaration should whose first statement as chairman be made at the time the declaration warned against repeating the “blun- is riled and the remainder paid on or der” of dismanteling the Army and|be fore the next quarterly dates. junking part of the Navy after this| For failure to file a declaration or war. : . pay an estimated tax, the government Ranking Democrat is Chairman |charges five per cent of the unpaid Andrew J. May of Kentucky, head of | amount of each installment due but the House Military commtitee, Who | unpaid, plus one per cent per month long has urged that the United States yp (0 a maximum of ten per cent of “maintain always a big Army and athe uppaid amount of such install- big Navy and let the world know we | jane have them.” | Although there is a penalty for un- An ardent supporter of compulsory | derestimating the tax by more than peacetime military training, May l20 ner cent, this penalty will not ap- once said he believed Theodore Roo-| ply if the estimated tax is computed sevelt was right “when he said the on last year’s incomes at this year’s safest policy is to speak softly and rates and exemptions and is paid on carry a big stick.” | time. Following May on the Democratic regres Noein roster is Chairman Carl Vinson of PENNA. RAILROAD CONDUC- Georgia, head of the House Naval! TOR IS GROUND TO DEATH Committee. While not publicly com- | — mitting himself to compulsory mili-| J. E. Faith, Freeport, a conductor tary training, Vinson said he facored |on a Pennsylvania Railroad freight “a big Navy and a big Army so we | train, was ground to death under his never again will be caught unprepar- | own train last Thursday night along ed.” | the main line tracks near Gallitzin. Th three top ranking Republicans | A train crew of an east bound ~—Andrews, of New York; Maas, of | freight train discovered the conduc- Minnesota, and Wadsworth, of New |tor’s badly mangled body along the York, all said they favored compul- | railroad right-of-way. Coroner Pat- sory peactime training. | rick McDermott said the railroader’s Other members of the committee |head was nearly severed at the sho- include Reps. Snyder of Pennsylva-|ulder. The man’s legs almost were DECLARATIONS OF | INCOME AGAIN DUE MIDDLE OF APRIL Put a ring on the calendar around pril 15—if in 1944 you expect to, nia, Merritt, of New York, Demo-|cut off and his chest and head were crats, and Allen of Illinois, Powers of New Jersey, Cole of New York, and Miller of Connecticut, Republi- mangled. The train crew had not discovered the absence of the conductor until cans. they had reached Altoona. Hi IN SMALL Nia 7 1 Dood oe ae Beale Beal 2 2002.2 8 MONEY advanced to paint, paper, repair and make all kinds of general home improvements. Cash can also be obtained here for other Spring needs of every de- scription. Prompt servicel Shit tit iil sss ass sas ass ass sas asos sls oes sles Sess PPT PT PTT TTT TTP TrTITIrTTrTrTTT sr rrvrrs re wee Hours: 9 to 5:00 Daily, Except Wednesday Afternoon 3% BARNESBORO BUDGET | PLAN, INC. : Telephone 467 BARNESBORO ; Pr Buy War Bonds and Stamps! BREE ESS Leese ess a sss assess pounds at this job. LE UNION PRESS.COURIER. 3 Washington, D. C. ALCOHOL AND WPB inside the War Production board to hold up a new method of alcohol production. The process, developed in Germany, is the distillation of alcohol from sawdust and wood waste. All over the U. S. A. there is a great surplus of sawdust and wood scraps from saw mills, In some areas, its disposal is a problem. But in Germany, some 30 plants are in | operation turning sawdust not only into alcohol, but yeast and cattle feed. This same process has been tested at a U. S. forest service pilot plant at Marquette, Wis., and recently plans were all set tp open a com- mercial plant at Willamette, Ore. The Vulcan Copper and Supply com- pany was scheduled to do the job, and J. Alfred Hall, borrowed from the forest service by WPB's office of production research and devel- opment, actually had gone out to Oregon to inspect the proposed Wil- lamette site. But now something has happened. The alcohol division of WPB is re- ported te be quietly throwing mon- key wrenches into the works. For two long years, WPB’s alco- hol division had blocked the saw- dust alcohol method for the obvious reason that the big alcohol com- panies are entrenched with the Cuban molasses method. Their plants are near the Atlantic sea- board, where molasses is readily ac- cessible. - They don’t want competi- tion from the lumber regions of the South and Northwest. But finally, because of the desperate alcohol shortage, they were overruled and the Willamette plant was authorized. However, queer things happened. When the Willamette application was sent by registered mail to WPB, | it was ‘“‘lost.”” WPB refused to act without the ‘‘original’’ application, so valuable weeks were wasted ar- guing. Then, an engineer named Levy, who had had experience with the sawdust method in Germany, was brought here from England. This time, the Willamette application pa- pers were ready. But another hitch developed. WPB suddenly found some of Levy’s credentials unsatis- factory, demanded an FBI investi- gation. The FBI cleared him, but still the WPB’s alcohol division is holding things up. * * Ld AIR WAR OVER GERMANY Strange as it may seem, the pres- ent problem of the U. S. and British air forces over Europe is not so ! much to locate the targets but fo lo- cate German fighter planes. Nazi fighters have been so reduced in numbers that they are being held back, front. make a complete mission to the Con- tinent without meeting any opposi- tion in the air. This is good news, but it prevents heavy attrition of the Luftwaffe un- less the German planes are sought out on the ground. As American fliers put it: “We've done a birth-control job on the Laft- waffe.”” In other words, they have struck manufacturing plants so suc- cessfully that fighter production is way down. This applies both to ‘twin-engine and single-engine fight- .ers. Plants making both types have ‘been struck systematic and devas- tating blows. Air forces officials have figures on the exact amount of that ‘birth con- trol,” but the figures are highly con- fidential. British as well as Amer- ican officials are delighted with the results, and the British are now ad- mitting the superiority of American precision bombing in knocking off certain targets. Germans Avoiding a Fight. In the text book of air power, after you have attacked the enemy’s air- craft industry, you aim at the en- emy’s planes in the air. And that is what the RAF and AAF are try- ing to do now. But the Germans are avoiding a fight. They are try- ing to check losses by keeping their planes on the ground. Occasionally, returning pilots con- tradict this. ‘The man who says the Luftwaffe is licked is just plain crazy!” And they have battle wounds for evidence. Explanation is that the Nazis concentrate fighter strength over one important target. Air experts say Germany is now in the desperate plight England was in at the climax of the blitz of 1940- 41. The British now admit that, if the Germans had come over a few more times, they would have bro- ken the back of England. But the Luftwaffe simply couldn’t stand the terrific losses. * * * MERRY-GO-ROUND ¢ The U. S. Quartermaster corps now operates a slow-down-the-war system which requires personal guides and 20 minutes extra time to conduct visitors from the entrance of the building to various offices. ¢ ‘Man Mountain’’ Dean, the fa- mous wrestler, has risen to the rank of sergeant at Camp Ritchie, Md., where he supervises the ‘pick-up squad,” removing trash from the company streets. Dean is down to a mere 275 pounds, after losing 90 esas ass assesses. a P Pr TTT Tr PTY TTT TITTY TT TTTv rr rs ys TTT SYTTYT SY hh a ea | | | : A mysterious hand has reached | : | apparently for the second | Allied bombers occasionally | LOOKING 'EM OVER The other day, the White House called WPB’'s production wizard, Charlie Wilson, to come to see the President. Wilson .went, not know- | ing what it was about and not know- ing he was to stay to lunch. When he got there, he found himself lunch- ing with FDR, all alone. | The conversation ranged over ev- | erything under the sun, from the | problems of business management to Far Eastern trade to Latin Amer- ican relations to war plant recon- version. When the President asked for Wilson's views on world trade, the former General Electric execu- tive, replied: ‘Mr. President, I'm a manufac- | turer, not a merchandiser.” i The luncheon lasted more than twe hours and, after it was over, Wil- son didn't know quite what to make of it, because no very important problems regarding war production had been discussed. When he ex- pressed bewilderment to close friends later, they replied: “Why, Charlie, you're just a po- litical neophyte! Don’t you know what he was doing? Looking you over to see how you would do as second man on the ticket.” Embarrassed, Wilson replied: ‘People don’t seem to know that I'm a Republican.” NOTE—Some politicos figure that the President is now looking for a conservative running mate with a Republican background who would swing votes from business. Under- | secretary of State Ed Stettinius is an active bidder for the job. Some | conservative groups also figure that, | if they can pick the vice president, FDR will resign shortly after the war and they will be in the saddle. * * * ANZIO ORDNANCE Although the problem of supply on | the Anzio beachhead has been em- | phasized, another factor which the | public doesn’t realize is the prob- | lem of ordnance. Inside that slender foothold in Italy, there must be not only kitchens and temporary hospitals but, even more important, ammunition dumps and repair shops. This is the job of | ordnance. A tank is no good unless | it is kept in repair and it is the job of ordnance not only to build tanks, but to train men to go along with them into the field of battle to see that they are kept running. The same is true of artillery and every other type of weapon. That is why the Anzio beachhead has to maintain machine shops and repair garages, plus a large number of trained ordnance men to keep the | weapons at the front operating. All | of this has to be done under the ter- | rific hazard of enemy artillery fire, | because Nazi big guns are never out | of range. | Paradoxical fact is that the man responsible for the good job being done by ordnance is a former navy man. He is hard-hitting Maj. Gen. Levin Campbell, chief of ordnance, who graduated from Annapolis but later joined the coast artillery and has been in the army ever since. It was Campbell who decentral- ized the somewhat moribund ord- nance department shortly after Pearl Harbor, moving ammunition to St. Louis, automotive vehicles to Detroit, safety and security to Chi- cago, artillery carriages to Rock Is- land, Ill, and getting things away from Washington where, as he says, ‘People are always breathing down your neck.” It was Campbell who cleared the | decks for the famous bazooka anti- tank gun. Though he has been | criticized for not developing an air- | plane rocket gun similar to the Ger- mans’ weapon, it was really General ‘““Hap’’ Arnold, chief of the air forces, whq failed to take action on the airplane rocket gun when its feasibility was proposed several years ago by Arnold's arch-critic, Major Seversky. : Actually, the ordnance depart- ment has to be guided by what the fighting services want, ‘‘They never get credit for the new inventions they develop,” according to Assist- ant Secretary of War McCloy, “but if they ever miss one, they catch hell.” - *- * MERRY-GO-ROUND @ Mystery ‘recently surrounded the apartment of the Argentine assistant air attache, Lieut. Ronald J. Rossi- ter. His rooms at the Marlyn apart- ments were charred and burned. In the diplomatic corps, the gossip was that dirty work had taken place be- cause of Argentina's anti-U. S. pol- icy . . . Solution of the mystery: Lieutenant Rossiter went to sleep smoking, had to be rushed to a hos- pital, and was kept under an oxygen tent to recover from carbon monox- ide poisoning. @ The warning that more farmers must-be drafted comes on the heels of another warning that Italian pris- oners no longer can be counted on for farm labor. The status of Italy as a co-belligerent will soon take Italians out of the prisoner category. (Harold Hopper, recently resigned chief of WPB’s motion picture sec- tion, is urging the American cinema industry to get busy now to prevent motion picture embargoes after the war. Free distribution of movies— one of the best means of American propaganda—should be a plank at the peace table, Hopper urges, Lawrence Dibert of Dysart was found guilty of a violation of the Sol- id Fuels Act at a hearing held be- fore Justice of the Peace Elizabeth Rowland in Ebensburg on Thursday afternoon. He was charged with is- suing weighwaster’s certificates af- ter the expiration date of his wei- ghmaster’s lcense. He was fined $25 and costs. Information was filed by Thursday, April 6th, 1944, For Congress: OOOOH OAINOOOONOONNOOOOOOONNO0O Democratic Ballot Robert S. Clark WESTMONT Respectfully Solicits Your Vote and Support at the Primary. April 25. BENDER SEEKS G. 0. P. ASSEMBLY NOMINATION ATES. BOYS AND MEN'S ENDICOTT JOHNSON SHOES FOR EASTER $2.98 T0 $4.98 and styles. JOE'S CUT-RATE STORE JOSEPH WILENZIK, Owner. Barnesboro GEORGE R. BENDER. George R. Bender of Carrolltown, has announced himself as a candidate for the office of General Assembly for the second district of Cambria County on the Republican ticket. | Mr. Bender was the nominee for| Assembly in 1940 and received the largest vote for that office on the Republican ticket, leading his two running mates by a large majority. Mr. Bender has always been an ac- tive worker in the Republican party, Cowher Nehnrig & Co. 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