Tax Bill Debate the thought is to provide in advance for the anticipated requirements of a growing city. “FROZEN ASSETS” Fair Southern Bell’s confidence in is Enough Jitlmwgtnn the Wilmington » Both house and senate are balking an stimulating. It offers a fine example that tax bill, the first on a provision for husband others might benefit by. to know #tar and wife to file income tax statements, HJorttittg joint ions expressedthaT'Se’-s^nd6?'? in this r published Daily Except Sunday on control. The result is that are those ol an4; the latter crop the author 4 The Wilmington Star-News By needed legislation to set up- the machinery Gasoline Taxation may not always At The Murchison Building with its harm®* for additional defense levies is to be further position.—The j» g Page, Owner and Publisher Ed:;? the views of members ere The oHtel association Telephone All Departments delayed while Tennessee opposes any By WESTBROOK PEGLfr voiced anew. increase in the tax on gasoline for the good DIAL 8311 NEW YORK, July The income tax controversy grows hotter and sufficient reason, from its viewpoint, that 30.—This r*i Second Class Matter at Wilming- incident of the Entered as line is drawn elastic draft, Under Act of Congress with the weather, and the sharp- the consequent reduction in tourist travel in- ton N C., Postoffiee ought to be a lesson to atad Under will reduce their This all 0f of March 3. 1879. ly between democrats republicans. evitably patronage. posi- but more likely it win be 4' sharp republican fire, democratic house lead- tion is selfish, of course, but it is eminently no SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER thing, for George in Advance have to liberalize income tax pro- reasonable. Spelvin Air, Payable Weekly or ers agreed is Combina- can, mentaUy lazy cedure and will permit submission of an This is no time to quarrel over tax sources and’c J!1' Star News tion and uses headline amendment to kill joint income tax returns. in general. The nation’s defense bill is a tre- impressions J -3 -20 3 -15 8 *30 catchwords in 1 Week with be the Ameri- lieu o£ -" 2.60 1.95 3.90 Heretofore husbands and wives independ- mendous one and must paid by niformar 3 Months . on matters of to make be an ureasonable vital 6 Months 5*20 3.90 7.80 ent incomes have been required sepa- can people. But it would import**' Specifically, if you l Year .10.40 7.80 15.60 rate statements. The pending bill would per- imposition to levy additional taxes on a Com- should ask 4 News rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue Spelvin today to state mit them to consolidate their resources, ex- modity used by an immense group of citizens the me* j of Star-News of the a Selective Service emptions, etc., is a single statement. The op- who are already carrying too heavy tax act':5 would BY MAIL this is hit harder than reply that this was position centers upon the fact that by load. The automobile owner the c Strictly in Advance that all Payable would save which other- What with state and city required the Combina- process they money any other tax payer. young fel]? to spend a year in Star News tion wise would be on their tax bills. Considering licenses and national and state gasoline tax- the army learn ? .50 .90 I revenues to out of all to shoot and l Month ...$ 75 $ $ the government’s need fdr larger es, he shoulders a burden propor- march. He 4 I Months 2.00 1.50 2.75 thinks it limited that carry on the defense program, the separate tion to the capital he has invested in his ve- service to' i Month. 4.00 3.00 5.50 year, you know, like in Fr™ return seems reasonable. hicle. before l Year 8.00 6.00 10.00 the crash-onlv m At the other end of the the senate hotel men believe there Fra?1 Capitol, The Tennessee maybe it was two o News rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue rthree 4- has voted to allow farmers to feed their stock be “a distribution as to other com- or of Star-News should whatever, but, anyway 44 that body had to or their family on their "excess acreage” modities.” Their position is so correct do it and we have 2 (DAILY WITHOUT SUNDAY) so in excess of allot- motor car many people that we wheat, that is wheat grown they deserve support from every don’t oj™ l Month .$ .50 6 Months .$3.00 need but one year. without a 1 Months .1.50 12 Months.. 6.00 ment, penalty. This, too, appears owner. Of late Mr. Spelvin has be-in justifiable concession. Its fate is still to be learn that (Sunday Only) there was a kicker in the or there, in the law 1 Month .$ 20 6 Months .$1.25 determined house, failing which permits Congress the i Months .65 1 Year .2.50 joint committee consideration. keep one-year men bens 'Washington Daybook their time in case of the rate of It is right and proper that every provision emergent" Card of Thanks charged for at and he is which col- pretty sore about 4 25 cents per line. Count five words to line. of this tax bill, contemplates STINNETT and By JACK suspects trickery or sba lections of $3,529,000,000 for defense purposes, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON, July 30.—It was generally practice. is entitled to the exclusive use of all news should be threshed out item by item, and the overlooked, but behind the President’s recom- stories appearing in The Wilmington Star. action the best thought avail- But still, Mr. Spelvin final represent for to per- hasn't re-i mendation to Congress legislation the law which was JULY 1941. able. If looks for revenue to the great masses published" WEDNESDAY, 30, mit the President to establish regional or many of the hand it papers at the time of the American people. On the one for all or any part ol not general daylight saving and, to pretend that I hav-> must include every dollar the people can rea- the year is a plan to circumvent one of the this is of by way admitting that explosions of the whole ol this Star-News sonably afford to contribute; on the other it major political Spelvin, who should haw Program national defense legislation. studied it Consolidated Government must not exceed that limit. But the debate carefully as a duty City-County his line In World War 1, Congress and the nation of work, hasn’t yet under Administration. has already consumed much valuable time. glance- Council-Manager paused in its entire defense effort to wage one at a copy. Port The national crisis has reached the point over whether we should Publio Terminals. of its bitterest battles No Trick Clauses where the waste of further time will imperil or shouldn’t have universal daylight saving. Perfected Truck and Berry Preserving Moreover, I have Every time congressmen have made faces just finished and Facilities. the nation’s, and the people’s, security. A de- a conversation with Marketing at the clock in the present defense effort, another cision is that the dollars of the Spelvin, an who Seaside Highway from Wrightsvitte necessary, there have been little whirlwinds of criticism editor, is suppose- to keep himself Beach to Bald Head Island. masses may be speedily converted into war and debate all over the land. thoroughly formed and tools. Why? who, furthermore, fc« Extension of Limits. a son City in the armed ■ Because the controversy over daylight sav- forces,' b So-Fooi Cape Fear River channel, wid- hasn’t read the law either. a between farm communities and Life ing is fight millions er of others, he Turning Basin, with ship lanes into the large urban and industrial centers. Even thought'• Traffic Enforcement was a flat one-year industrial sites along Eastern bank south some of the most vigorous advocates of uni- service la.' with no trick clauses or versal daylight saving will admit that the fine pus- of Wilmington. The club’s endorsement of Chief and he thinks the reason Rotary Cas- farmer has a justifiable gripe. And on the why tie Paved River Road to Southport, via teen’s catch, or reserve order for police rigidly to enforce traf- other hand, some of the outstanding opponents The War clause, escap : Interpreting his attention was that all Orton Plantation. fic control ordinances awakens sympathetic confess that daylight saving in some areas ~\ of i-i Stewart were thinking about the presiden- Development of Pulp Wood Production echoes wherever note is probably is a good thing. Says- taken if that action. tial campaign at the does save Ac- time, whies through sustained-yield methods the traffic It undoubtedly electricity. through- Truly situation has improved ma- may so, but might not cording to the Federal Power Commission, Soviet Successes Seen State be. out Southeastern North Carolina. in Department Probably few of us terially recent weeks. national daylight saving would conserve more very would have read it Unified Industrial and Resort Promo- The effort to eliminate double parking is than 736,000,000 kilowatt-hours s year. It gives Dizzy Following through, anyway. One critic has blamed the tional Agency, one the factory workers on one or two shifts more Amer. supported by county- especially commendable. The small traffic In Nazis’ Own Changing Events ican free For many workers, even Reports press for failing to ex- wide tax. working daylight. squad is unable to handle -Bv — — amine and every case, but it those working overtime, it provides leisure KIRKE L. SIMPSON By discuss the w-hole bill Shipyards and is noticeable that and, on the Drydocks. blockades from this cause daylight hours. These arguments are pretty Moscow’s jubilant claims that panded. Savage fighting in the CHARLES P. STEWART basis of that the press Negro Health Center Southeastern in the business Hitler’s are stalled all the owes the public careful, efficient for section are less and less fre- well established. legions Mogliev sector on the Dnieper Central Press Columnist way from the Baltic to the Black service in return for its North Carolina, developed around the quent. The stream of traffic moves FARM ROUTINE RIGID south of Orsha freedom, more indicates that the he is The sea may be premature; yet some It isn’t alone the right. press apparentiv Community Hospital. smoothly than it used to do. But what it does to the farmer is something Nazis rapidity with German confirmation is not lack- tried to break through the boqted one in this case and should else In farm communities, where the which events pop these days that Adequate hospital facilities for whites. Also, the police are bettering the situation again. Dnieper defenses there. That would have given Mr. Spelvin the to dark and ing. makes the state department fairly neg- at working day is from dawn there force the Russians to the lected Junior High School. downtown intersections during peak hours. During the past two weeks nei- abandon facts in jolting headlines m is very little waking time between, its saving bend of dizzy. What’s worse is the awful ther Hitler’s own nor whole the river, a main recognition of the fact that he com- Tobacco Warehouses Both pedestrians and motorists are headquarters scatteration of ’em. If for Export Buyers. more ob- in electricity (or oil for the lamps) is negligi- defensive bastion. the depart- any other Nazi has an- prehends only those that servant of if the farmer tries to agency ment could concentrate on one things Development of native grape growing signal lights than formerly, because ble. the other hand, In the of admitted spot, he Ojj nounced any German advances oi light stub- is belted over the scalp with, the traffic officers adjust himself to it, he finds that his stock born things could happen there pretty throughout Southeastern North Carolina. are on active, not passive, important Russian resistance on the day after day. However, I should won’t go along with him. Cickens, cows, strategic consequence fast and still our department observ- Modern Tuberculosis duty. in the east of Smol- Dnieper front, the eastward plunge like to point out that this Sanatorium. and eat and the sun— except center, ers could track of very turkeys pigs, sleep by of a Nazi division keep ’em. Having If the who ensk. There a German armored panzer to Vyaz- failure by the papers, whatever the chief, obviously is determined and the farmer his hours some new kind regulates according- ma looks more of hades break out to division is to have like a move of excuse, proves how necessary it bring the traffic situation to would ly. Also, dew doesn’t come or disappear by reported in a fresh place, not TOP O' THE MORNING— up par, desperation than a con- however, only for the man-made time. And the hour when the reached the vicinity of Vyazma, carefully press to function as a sort The insist that pedestrians be restrained any ceived over the entire map but over the day is fixed when there shall come to me from within 130 miles of Moscow itself. strategic maneuver. It was of voteless third house o fthe legis- farmer can go into the fields for working earth’s several crossing streets on based on the hope of con- surface, times a day lative A strange mysterious wrong signals, even during and harvest is determined sum- That be a menace creating branch and present to the guest; crops for by •vjld deadly far maybe, is enough to drive de- hours of slack he fusion behind Russian lines any people arguments tor and The time I do not knoio—he that traffic, would effect a fur- mer dews. If he can’t get there until noon by to the whole Russian center if it against keeps date~- both on the and partment plumb distracted. ther a broadbased German Dnieper north of various big issues. So all I have to improvement. the clock, he has the further delay of stopping represented do is work and wait, the river. That it has failed to I know how our state to feed the hired hands. Come supper time the breakthrough. Vyazpia itself is im- department The people do not hear the con- And keep me at my do so is clearly indicated in ac- feels about it. or read the rec- best, farmer’s "afternoon” is hardly half over. portant only because it is a rail gressional debates counts from Berlin of At And do my common duties behind the Russian desperate my house in the suburbs of ord which not only lacks inten- patiently. Brave At any rate, those are the arguments. They junction, far Promise Unfulfilled fighting to relieve the advance col- Washington I have three baby tional funnies and other ticklers And so I and I toil and on front, from which Nazi forces sleep wake, rest, are the same used 23 years ago both sides. umn. could fan out grandchildren. One of ’em’s too with which we surround and season Knowing, when he shall There have been several bills on daylight in three directions. come. When Mr. Roosevelt Nevertheless, Wyazma junction young to have advanced 'much be- the facts of l-'. became president of in for months. It Unit Stalled life in the papers Elder Brother will saving pending Congress an My have sent for me, the United could prove important yond the status of a sort of a hu- also runs on and on in the States he frankly looked as if none had a of a at Even by Berlin reports, hov/ever, strategic drily acknowledged ghost chance, asset if the Bidding him say that Germans hold it. They man oyster. Still, she requires con- oratorical vein which is hard read they especially that he would make mistakes, and declared least not without kicking up such a fuss that the unit near Vyazma was stalled Have could use it to turn nor.nward and siderable attention. But those other need for me at home; that when “national unity” would have looked like a for lack of fuel and ammunition. ing. he was convinced a mistake had take the Red armies the a col- holding (wo kids?—murder! If John Bull’s Justifies Discussions And so I shall go gladly with my free-for-all. Desperate fighting by relief guest. been made he would correct it. Those were Nevel sector, north of in hard for umn from the Smolensk zone was Vitebsk, up destroyers, he ought to The must and do ely on —Anna J. Grannis. So what happens? The administration tosses the rear. people brave words. The sequel is not so to it. is still 1 enlist that pair of infants. They and this good. in its own bill and if it isn’t politically -fool- necessary re-equip It the press for such debate To aren’t obsolete, either—three or four date President Roosevelt has tacitly ac- proof, it at least skirts the danger zones and a roving force, lacking infantry instance of failure to emphasize A leading automotive manufac- or support or secure lines to years apiece thereabouts. and reiterate not us on Britain’s Great knowledged and factually corrected one error. leaves clear lanes in which administration supply turer is only puts experimenting with plastic Now, on a Opportunity leaders can down the most violent of the the rear. Nor is there any word keeping your eye single to be more watchful but This was when argue cars. warning he conceded a change of date Plastics lack tensile strength it farm belt that the Nazis have succeeded as child, though calls for vigilance, us in discussions which opponents. of steel but are justifies Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s decla- for the celebration of was not better able to Thanksgiving • * • yet in thrusting supporting col- sometimes are regarded as nothing withstand knocks and rough usage. (Continued on Page ration that England should expect a Nazi in- wisely attempted and let the back to the north or south of the Twelve) holiday slip The administration—backed by those power- umns but heckling of great and good vasion in to the I" attempt September probably was a customary fourth Thursday in Novem- ful agencies of electrical power and national Vyazma spearhead. --—■ men in the public service. So as the outline of the battle Amer- necessary warning to keep the people of the ber. defense, the Federal Power Commission, the far There is no doubt that this front in that vital area ican Known “•* on Department of the Interior, and the Office of covering government British Isles the alert for any war even- Two other blunders, clearly established and THIS CURIOUS WORLD al- Production Management—asks only that the Moscow can be mapped, it rep- New Deal is tricky and sly, tuality. Certainly it would be a grievous mis acknowledged by everybody but which a fantastic As- an Ex- himself, President be permitted to determine in what resents situation. ■ ---i though the draft law is not take to relax in started with vigilance against a cunning the naming of his first cabinet areas daylight saving shall be installed. sertions from Hitler’s headquarters ample ot its cunning. The psyche- that all is to its mor- foe. continue unremedied. The selection of Harold The President’s message to Congress, asking going according plan ogy of the New Deal and put a severe strain on one’s credu- MOST ANIMALS have been slick almost fr® But the fact that 80 per cent of the German Ickes and Miss Frances Perkins for cabinet the legislation, included the FPC’s tables have ity f$r for all TONGUES on and the tables lity. German tacticians, WHOSE ROOTS ARE the start in 1932 and the pape- forces are in a with a possible power savings show engaged desperate fight posts was major mistake. They have been in T '■ that the least (far the least) saving would be their admitted daring military FASTENED INSIDE have cone a fair job, think. The Russians on the eastern front and are trouble-makers for more than Yet eight years. effected in the plains states and the Pacific conceptions and execution, coulo THEIR- SKULLS; discovering marked cards, sots- BUT THE TONGUE giving no signs at present of winning a quick President Roosevelt them in their im- northwest. That includes a lot of farm hardly santion the present indi- times after the hand has bee- retails land OF THE a and the cated disposition of Nazi forces on dealt have been in order. victory there, coupled with the additional fact portant posts. and lot of farmers implication that <3IANT and bets would not be so necessary in the Moscow front. Our New Deal statesmen w* that the Royal Air Force is literally pounding In this we are forced to conclude that Presi- daylight saving ANT EATER. these areas is bound to shush a lot of ueien9es intac: and mask in®*' bitter ANCHORS disguise issues to pieces possible embarkation points on the dent Roosevelt’s brave words when he suc- first Elsewhere Russian frontier de- son* argument that came out in the daylight TO ITS tions and the people may channel and North sea coast and war ceeded President Hoover as Chief Executive fenses still in- the- pro- saving fracas. appear relatively &&£ASr times resent being told that tact. in the thrust from Vite- s®: duction industries operating for Germany on were more courageous than his performance. Some observers already are saying that the Only 4E. government is trying to slip another besk to Smolensk, now but if the the continent, give the democratic world, no Personal alone has kept two mem- administration has turned up legisla- projected thing over on them, friendship another 90 tive trump and an ace at that, for since 1918, miles eastward to Vyaz- jections are raised and propel-: less than the British people, reason to doubt bers in his cabinet long aftef their inefficiency the Battle of the Clocks is one no other ad- ma, has the Stalin line ben rup- emphasized for the public attenuo- that a sufficient force could be reas- was mixed enemy proved. ministration has dared get up in. 2 tured. And the indications are that that is the end of our responsible sembled on the invasion shore and fully the Germans have thus far failed ty. Congress then decides in- to widen In equipped for such a venture at the time Mr. the base of the Smolensk takes the praise or blame. In salient Churchill names. * Confidence Wilmington enough to make it a criti case of the draft act everyb® Quotations cal penetration of Russian defense* | COPR. 1941SBY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REO. U. S. PAT. OFF. Speh-- The British was drowsing and George premier and his war council or the than While many persons are dragging their chins pave way for a frontal at has been no more startled know, of course, what is on in Russia I cannot believe that peoples of good will tack on Moscow. rest c. ■- going in a business after editors to discover the anticipation of collapse to realize and what strategy to to make that will not once more strive the great If Red army forces still hold the employ the and lie awake how meaning. war, nights wondering ideal of an association of nations Dniepei river line westward •ampaign as costly as possible for the Nazis. through from I they will get along, one company is starting which the the and the se- Smolensk to freedom, happiness,, Orsha, where the rivet 07IMIV ABOUT But in the layman’s view, this seems a most ReouiRES I an the of all may be achieved.—Sum- bends Entertainment expansion program involving expendi- curity peoples south, and from there to SECONDS. Cam you name these Musical advantageous time to expand the of state. A Vi. RAF’s ac- ture of ner Welles, acting secretary Mogliev and beyond, it is obvious FISHES Lin $120,000. • * * Kiivanis tivities to include the whole of Berlin and that the German advance toward Enjoyed by The Southern Bell Telephone company is al- cash There may be days when the will make Moscow via Smolensk and other important German cities, as well as Vyazma the at work on an addition to its new build- and a was ■_ ready you a good deal happier good deal is on a perilously narrow front. A mysical program war objectives now being bombed. ing, that its facilities will more secure than a worn-out washing ma- Its line is via light of yesterday’s weekly an;-1’e- foreseeing present supply the Smol i*‘e‘ The morale of the German is Harriet Elliott, associate admin- of the Kiwanis club at the people not as soon be too small to meet this vicinity’s de- chine.—Miss ensk-Vitebsk railroad and Moscow firm as the Britons’. Bombing raids of similar istrator, OP ACS. claims molensk itself is still held restaurant. mands for service. More than a thousand tele- • • • Williams. proportions to those on London by the Red army. If that is true, Miss Elizabeth last year phones have been installed since Davis nervous cases have an Camp Many mental and pass- German use of the Orsha-Smol- was heard in two number.-, would be well calculated to cause it to crack local draft boards pin was created and the shipyards came. The ed through the because the ensk section of the Minsk-Moscow Betty Loughlln violinist, ^ —perhaps to break. And without medical examiner is not was strong sup* company sees in this and in the increasing average psychiatrical- railway line is It lies number. Accompanist of impossible. port at home Hitler would soon ly trained to detect them.—Report National under Russian zabeth Fryer. go down. it for connections all the reason guns on the south f calls upoin Committee for Mental Hygiene. memoei With American bombers bank of -the as well as Officials reminded arriving in increas* it * * • Dnieper needs to put more capital into its Wilming- of Ki" ;:! numbers their being blocked at Smolensk. district convention ing and proving effectiveness, ton United States is to be the at plant. The going best Smolensk Vital Spot will be held Sept. 7-9 the time seems for Britain to toe best and the best ripe employ There is no of as best armad, equipped, de- It has not seemed that Beach- thought getting along possible w go* some of the characteristic fended of any nation in the whole of God’s a Rev. ruthlessness of the they can with what and German frontal attack on. Mos- Visitors were the they have, waiting ■’ y.. world when we l-i'- Germans in the interest of ultimate get through.—Navy Secretary cow could be organized until the den, Lafayette Mosteller. victom. for a slump when hostilities cease. Rather, Knox, Smolensk salient was and County Comm— greatly eg- ANSWERS, tie, Jr., shiner; 2, perch; 3. torpedo; 4, sucker. L. J. Coleman.