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Show ' rHE BULLETIN. mNfiHAM. FTAH -- """H - r Newest U. S. Cruiser jgf r II ill A f 1 : A & ' V $ 4 I ' 1 $ J i s J4 W i This soundphoto pictures the new-est addition to Uncle Sam's swiftly growing navy, the V. S. S. Montpe-lic- r a cruiser which was launched at the New York Ship Building com-pany's yards in Camden, N. J., and will soon be searching the high seas. $60,000,000 Worth of Ship Turns Turtle :felrM--V --,1 .... rictured from the air Is the charred, blistered hulk of the former luxury liner, Normandie, more recently the U. S. naval auxiliary La-fayette, as she lay on her side at the North river berth in New York, after capsizing. Weight of the water poured into her holds during a five-ho-blaze caused the great ship to turn over. fell m Things I Never Knew 'Til Now (About the Red Cross) Back in 1933, Japan suffered the worst disaster in its history (next to the one they asked for on De-cember 7) ... An earthquake devastated an area of fifty square miles, taking a toll of. more than 144,000 lives. (The city of Yoko-ham- a was totally destroyed by fire, as was most of Tokyo.) . . . Presi-dent Coolidge promptly called on the American people to come to Japan's aid with five million dollars. The citizens of this country trampled over each other rushing to help the Japs, and the sum was subscribed in a mere ten days. But America didn't stop there the dollars kept pouring in until the Red Cross had almost twelve million dollars for Japan, when that nation needed a friend . . . This, however, is the bitter Irony: The Japs were so "ap-preciative" that they set aside three million dollars of the American Red Cross relief funds to build a "Me-morial Fraternity Hospital" in the earthquake area as a permanent testimonial of Japan's gratitude to the United States! Red Cross nurses attached to the U. S. Army are officers with the rank of second lieutenant (And pri-vates are strictly prohibited by Army regulations from trying to d.a.te.them or make passes at them.) In the Navy, the nurses are ensigns . . . The Army requires Its Red Cross nurses to carry hel-mets and gas masks just like the soldiers, and no wonder. In the last war, 298 American nurses lost their lives in the service of their country. Contributors to the Red Cross have the best guarantee in the world that there won't be any hokus-poku- s with the funds, because its books are audited annually by the War Department and reported to Congress . . . The Red Cross' op-erating expenses are the lowest of any organization in the country-l- ess than four per cent of the money collected. (You can check it in any public library in the Congressional Record.) The women who are members of the Red Cross motor corps must furnish their own automobiles and gasoline, as well as foot their own parking bills. During the current emergency, they're required to serve one shift of eight hours each week and be on call twenty-fou- r hours a day . . . The girls take a six-we- training course, and one thing they're taught is how to repair a car themselves. Airedale terriers play an impor-tant part in the work of the Red Cross in wartime. The dogs are sent out on the battlefields to locate wounded men. They carry contain-ers of water, and after letting the soldier quench his thirst, they race back to the stretcher-bearer- s and lead them to the injured man . . . In England the Red Cross dogs are furnished with gas masks. The first war in which the Amer-ican Red Cross took part was the Spanish-America- n fracas . . . Clara Barton, founder of the American branch, had her hospital next to Major Leonard Wood's tent at Sibo-ne- y. One day a fellow-offic- of Major Wood's stamped into her hos-pital with a sack in his hand . . . "I have some sick men in my regi-ment," he bellowed, "and they want whatever delicacies you have here. I'll pay for them out of my own pocket. Will you sell them to me?" . . . "Not for a million dollars," Clara replied ... "I NEED that stuff!" protested the officer, shov-ing out his jaw. "I think a lot of my men. I'm proud of them" . . . "We're proud of them, too," retort-ed Clara. "But we can't sell hos-pital delicacies. We give them" . . . Chuckling, the officer filled his sack and stamped out . . . Which is how CoL Teddy Roosevelt became a Red Cross fan. A red cross can be displayed only by the Red Cross Society, accord-ing to an act of Congress. (With the xception of Army, Navy and Marine Corps medical authorities, anyone else who uses a red cross is liable to $500 fine and a year in jail.) There are a million and a half Fed Cross volunteers in the United S'.ate8. Volunteers receive no pay md must buy their own uniforms. (What's more, they must serve 100 tours before they're permitted to rut on their uniforms.) ... On the bulletin board of the Red Cross in L. A. is this reminder: "Don't forget that Thumbs Up' can be done with one hand, while the other hand 'Digs.' " Buy Defense Bonds-- War prisoners of all nations are looked after and protected by the International Red Cross, which sets minimum standards of treatment and makes inspections of prison camps . . . The Red Cross handles all communications between prison-ers and their families. Every na-tion at war sends the names and addresses of their prisoners to the International Red Cross headquar-ters in Geneva, Switzerland, where an index of information about pris-oners is kept for the benefit of rela-tives. tenor Offered J, To Reach the T, It was after a. expensively dress proached the w and faultlessly attir" "U I am not "I have speaking to the rm? have I not?" "lebrated sit, X' tered and beamed'; with a nod of hishe f -- "Is there somethicr you, madam?" ''f--3 "I can't find my swered pleasantly. so kind as to callwi' the top of your voice! he will hear you!" 1, (Mhiixo'im a'tt ?'.-- .7i . i in I 1 it. . ili Washington. D. C. NEW TAX BATTLE Biggest flght on Capitol Hill wher It comes to writing new taxes is go ing to be over the sales tax. Wall Street forces already have laid pipe lines tc certain congressmen for sales tax instead of heavier cor-- I poration taxes, and it Is going to be a ut battle. The man in the thick of this flght is now relatively obscure, but the public will hear a lot about him shortly. He is Randolph Paul, bet-ter known to Ford, Standard Oil, and big firms who hire the nation's best tax experts, than to the rest of the country. Paul has written a number of books on federal income taxes and gave up a $250,000 law practice to work for virtually noth-ing for the government Despite his background, however, big business will get no comfort from Randolph Paul when it comes to the sales tax. He is opposed to this levy primarily because it in-duces inflation. ' "If you add four cents on the sales price of any commodity," Paul ar-gues, "and a few more pennies on the price of a whole row of other commodities, labor has an excuse to ask for an increase in wages. Prices have gone up, and labor claims it is entitled to the increase. Then once the increase is granted, industry has an excuse for increas-ing prices, and the whole thing is started all over again. It can be the most vicious circle in our economic life." Anti-Sal- Tax. Instead of a sales tax, Paul fa-vors a series of very stiff taxes all along the line. Most drastic of his proposals is to tax lowest bracket incomes. Paul points out that if you take 72 per cent from the big business ex-ecutive making $50,000 a year he merely increases salaries to his as-sociates, spends more money on in-stitutional advertising, and de-creases his net income. This in the end also leads to inflation. Paul is in favor of taxing the higher brackets very heavily, but warns that the $1,200,000,000 additional at-tainable from this source is peanuts compared with what the country has to raise to meet the war bill. The real spending power of the nation is in the lower bracket in-comes and Paul contends these will have to bear the big part of the war budget Other Paul proposals are: (1) Heavy corporation taxes; (2) stiff excess profits taxes; (3) plugging all loopholes in the tax laws; (4) an excise tax en cer-tain specific luxuries which would not increase the cost of living. His recommendations are sure to be adopted in toto by Secretary Morgenthau and the White House. Whether congress will adopt them will be decided only after one of the toughest tax battles in history especially over the sales tax. HOW TO SEE HENDERSON Leon Henderson is guarded by so many secretaries and functionaries that even members of congress have a hard time getting to him. Officials of Alaska, bothered by a serious price problem in the Terri-tory, tried for days to get an audi-ence with the price czar. Finally, a little gray-haire- d lady found the answer. Mrs. John McCormack, wife of Alaska's selective service head, at-tended a woman's club function in Washington, at which Henderson submitted to questioning. Mrs. McCormack put the Alaskan price problem to Henderson on the floor of the club meeting, and he promptly invited her to call at his office next day for a detailed ex-planation. "The people around the office," said Henderson, "will try to keep you out but pay no attention to them. You just march straight into my office." Mrs. McCormack followed in-structions. She saw Henderson, and came away with a promise of action. CAPITAL CHAFF C Attorney General Francis Biddle is personally reviewing the recom-mendations of all Alien Enemy Hearing boards, which pass on charges against alien residents in the U. S. C The Bluefleld, W. Va., Chamber of Commerce has taken an unusu-al step for a chamber of commerce. Advocating the curtailment of non-essential federal spending, the chamber listed a number of pet lo-cal projects it was willing to forego for the duration of the war. ft U Earle Davidson, hustling young publisher of the Greenville (Mich.) Daily News, has won praise from treasury officials for his highly suc-cessful work in boosting defense bond sales. Chairman of the De-fense Savings committee of his area, Davidson addresses rallies every day and is chalking up a remark-able record. At one meeting de-ten-bond subsciiptions totaled $26,000. ft Returning from Rio by Pan Amer-ican clipper. 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'ipii M f Mrs. Fern Evans, whose husband was killed in action at Pearl Har-bor, at work in Lockheed's May-woo- d, Calif., plant, riveting part of the frame of a Hudson bomber. The job was obtained through the naval relief society. She Is "getting back" at the Japs. Dutch Island Occupied by U. S. Troops Urn mMt2U MBP ' mi mm I iff niniv Mi wim - MfcMfca A street scene In the business section of Willenstad, capital of Cura-cao, the Dutch Island off the northern coast of Venezuela, which has been occupied by American troops. The troops were sent to reinforce the Dutch nnlts which have been guarding the highly important oil refinery centers on the island. VfluPhillipr P IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS (The First Doughboy Abroad, and Adolf Hitler.) Yank Adolf, I am here. Adolf I'll be seeing you. Yank and sooner than you think! been having a dis-agreeable I hear you've winter. Adol- f-I can't be intimidated by weather. Yank-T- hat ain't the way I beard it Adolf-B- ah! You're green and d. You represent a capital-istic nation. You are soft and flab-by. Yank The voice is the voice of Adolf but the words are the words of Wilhelm. Adolf Where are you? Yank Wouldn't you like to know? Adolf I'll find out. Yank You bet. From now on I'll be in constant touch. Adolf I suppose you realize you are up against an unbeatable army. Yank Nix on that. I read that news from Russia. Adolf Russia, phooey! I'm not finished with her yet Yank Boy, how you wish yon were! Lissen, Adolf, how's your nervous breakdown coming along? Adolf That was all newspaper talk. I have no nervous breakdown. Yank I'll see that you get one now! Are you still wearing that uni-form you were never going to take oif until you had licked the world? Adolf Ja! Ja! Yank I didn't know cooties could stay so long in one place. Say, why don't you get wise and sue for peace? Adolf Me sue for peace! I've got the world under my heel. Yank All I got from that sen-tence was your name. Adolf What name? Yank Heel. Adolf Nincompoop! I consider you too small for me to notice. Yank If you think you look over-sized you're crazy. How are your generals? Adolf Don't worry about my gen-erals. Yank If you ain't worried why should I be? Adolf I'm itching to get a crack at you. Yank You're a poor judge of what causes those itches, Adolf. And, lissen, I've got a. proposition for a partner of yours. It's an of-fer for Mussolini. Hollywood wants him in Keystone comedy revivals. Adolf He'd be no funnier there than he is here! Yank Why do you get all your partners out of vaudeville? Benito could have come from no place else. And now you're ty-ing up with Japanese acrobats. Adolf You'd better not dis-parage my acrobats. They're putting on quite an act. Yank They crossed us by coming on during intermission. A year from now they won't even be able to get bookings in Perth Amboy. Adolf You amuse me. Yank You'll laugh all over when you see what I've brought over for you. Adolf What is it? Yank A bucksaw. Adolf What would I do with a bucksaw? Yank You'll find out! Hitler has one great advantage over the rest of the Nazis; he doesn't have to listen to Hitler. One of the most encouraging signs at Washington is the gradual disap-pearanc- e of all those boys who were suddenly thrown off the stalling standard. Harvey Wiley Corbett, noted architect, says the day of the skyscraper is over. That strikes us as a belated comment. It's years since anybody's had cour-age to build anything higher than three stories. An engineer says red lights should be used during a blackout Not we hope, in the theory that anybody pay attention to them. "WANTED PARTNER for my small farm. Easy Job. I will make the debts and he will pay them. Pine Grove Farm, Narrowsburg, N. Y. Dela-ware Valley News. Aw, you've been reading the Washington dispatches too closely for the last eight years. , NO HOARDER A wonderman Is Luther Gray To shortages He says "Okay!" Each scarcity He takes in stride, And never thinks "What can I hide?" I. Andrew complains that despite the rubber shortage a lot of checks keep bouncing the same as ever. Buy Defense Bonds v Neon VisibiL1-Becaus- e its wave k . cally different from t kinds of reddish light has a 20 per cent gm: during a rainstorm! clear weather. t J A.E.F. in Review in Northern Ireland li miw ' riTiTTfcttfci iMisjii uniHiiiftnilT asMatjwniiffliH After a 10 mile march with fighter planes overhead, and their band playing American tunes, U. S. troops in Northern Ireland draw up for In-spection by Maj. Gen. Russell P. Hartle, their commander, a' an unknown town. It was the first ceremonial of the second A.E.F. vanguard since their at rival in Northern Ireland. Page Daniel Wearing coveralls treated with a secret formula which he developed, Dr. O. T. Hodneficld, Los Angeles chemist (above) walked into fire and was unscathed. This was one of a series of demonstrations on the result of 18 years of experiment. As We LonJ: j The more we love, t a are; and the greater ships are, the dearer God. Jeremy Taylor, f-- It's in the Bag r mm Aviation cadets at only bombar-dier training air corps advanced flying school in the country, in A-lbuquerque, N. M.. carry secret bomb sights In zipper bag before take off. U. S. Navy in 'Unpacific' Pacific irtfijlt-- , - f ' y 1 Somewhere in the very unpaclfic Pacific ocean the crew of a United States naval carrier rushes to re-lo- ad planes with bombs and depth charges, during patrol in the Pacific, in readiness for any enemy crafl that may be lurking around. This soundphoto was approved by the U. S. navy. |