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Show WASHINGTON NE4WS r,rv1 NE9WS : 1 FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER Income Taxes The Treasury Department is working work-ing on a plan to collect income taxes from wage earners by making mak-ing weekly or monthly deductions from their weekly or monthly salaries. sal-aries. Employers would deduct income in-come taxes from salaries similar to the method used in paying social so-cial security taxes. Since tax experts ex-perts believe that it would be difficult dif-ficult to collect between $100 to $500 from the average worker at one time, the instalment method of obtaining taxes may be tried. Defense Materials Collections Lessing J. Rosenwald, chief of the Office of Production Management Manage-ment bureau of industrial conservation, conser-vation, told a press conference that the Government will soon begin be-gin a series of continuous campaigns cam-paigns to collect, rubber, iron, aluminum, paper, steel, copper, lead, zinc, and cotton and wool scraps. Mr. Rosenwald said in the new campaigns the Government Govern-ment will not be the collection agency as it was in the recent aluminum drive. The materials can be given outright or sold to scrap and junk dealers will resell re-sell them to defense industries. The first campaign will be started in about a week in a state to be announced later. Mr. Rosenwald stated one of the chief problems is to find a satisfactory substitute for brass in making shell cases. One shell-making shell-making process now under experimentation ex-perimentation would reduce copper requirements by 70 per cent The bureau asked manufacturers manufactur-ers in every field to consider reduction re-duction of numbers of varieties or styles in their products in an effort to save vital materials for national defense. Proposals by each industry for simplification programs will be welcomed by the bureau, which is prepared to aid and advise each industry on the subject. Army Air-Accident Bate Down The War Department announced the accident rate of military flying fly-ing during the past fiscal year remained substantially unchanged despite the greatly increased amount of training and tactical flying being done by the Army Air forces and use of new airplanes air-planes of much higher speeds and performance. The overall training accident rate is lower than the three-year pre-emergency average established during 1937, 1938 and 1939. Bed Cross Sweaters Beady Red Cross Chairman Davis announced an-nounced 30,000 sweaters and 30,-000 30,-000 gift bags for service men in remote defense outposts are to be ready for shipment by November 25. Mr. Davis said this is a portion por-tion of the quota of 500,000 sweaters sweat-ers for Red Cross chapters thru-out thru-out the nation. |