Show 4 N W A OUR congressman ON GRESSMAN FROM W WK gRANGER GRANGER house has passed and sent to the important measures I 1 senate nate two 4 the lle extension of the commod one the e corporation ration and the oth credit dit corpo ase 1943 tax bill the commodity credit corpora the bill was the one that parti cu lion cause caused dauch much furore and de is is the agency that the we all 11 the funds for the agrical carries es including support tura ni I 1 program for incentive payments and acs prices products it has up un 1111 agn time tinie had funds for the pur bathis this to subsidies for f food paying nose e of pos was the 6 part that was control this As it now has passed if it I 1 1 L vema approved in its present form by would bring an end it i the senate sen ate after december payments i to ill an jubridy 31 1943 the tax bill carried tax provisions additional two billion ns for an 10 this would make the total tal dollars Dol lais collection for next year approximately tx forty billion dollars there substantial change in individual is no income taxes the only change will be repealing the victory tax hit but not decreasing the total tax deducted from pay checks an increasing the excess P profits profits tax from 90 per cent at present to 95 per cent the ie senate may make some change tut but it is believed that the bill will be passed substantially as it passed the house french pay for lend lease goods the ne french committee of national liberation has recently delivered a check to this government for 15 in payment for civilian supplies shipped to french africa under the terms of the lend lease act this is the fourth check delivered by the committee for shipments that left the united states between april I 1 and july 31 through lend lease agreement we have supplied the french of north and west afrin with military and civilian supplies which are to be paid for in cash while they make available to us strategic materials under reverse lend ind lease kase already certain sections of french africa are producing food supplies to care for their population and in addition are making foodstuffs food stuffs a rai lable to our forces in the kedit erra nean theater of operations mines limes and quarries are also back in I 1 to production and such strategic materials as phosphates iron ore and cobalt have begun to flow to allied countries since the occupation of this ter antory by allied forces in november 1942 over tons of civilian bloods have been sent there under this agree agreement mem that the french shall pay us dollar for dollar in cash for an all vital civilian supplies thus far in a addition to the paid us for civilian supplies we have received under reverse lend lease about tons of wheat and several thousand tons of fresh fruits and vegetables all of which helps to feed our men on that side of the atlantic the french have also agreed to provide us with important ram materials including sisal lead concentrates manganese dioxide cork cobalt and manganese tin and nickel ores |