| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS point rationing scheduled for marchl march 1 solomons fit into sap jap empire emp ire plan but U so armed forces will not agree treasury favors pay as you go tax opinions are arc expressed in these onto mris they art are those 09 ot of EDITORS NOTE when newspaper of this 0 necessarily and not western newspaper unions news newa analysts analysis released by western newspaper union RATIONING new date set office of price administration officials have established march I 1 or a few days later as the beginning of nationwide nation wide rationing of canned and frozen foods on a point basis As announced several weeks ago these goods include canned bottled and frozen fruits and vegetables soups juices juiciest chili sauce catsup and dried fruits retail sales of these items will be stopped on february 21 and during the eight days following that date a countrywide country wide schoolhouse registration will be conducted for the distribution trib ution of ration book no 2 blue stamps in this book will be used for the canned goods rationing and the red stamps for meat rationing meat rationing is at present scheduled to bejan begin about april 1 although this may be changed further details of the registration for book two and its use are to bo be announced by local OPA offices EDITORS NOTE watch the columns of this your hometown home town paper for complete details these will be published as soon as they are released one member of each family may register for the entire household for ration book two book no I 1 must OTHER RATION DATES feb 20 expiration date for period 3 fuel oil coupons which became valid dec 23 feb 28 final date for first inspection spec tion of tires for B or C passenger car card holders and for commercial vehicles march 13 period 5 fuel oil coupons good to sept 30 become valid march 15 last valid date for or no 11 sugar coupons good for three pounds march 31 final date for first inspection spec tion of passenger car tires for A card holders and motorcycles tor cycles april 12 expiration date for period 4 fuel oil coupons be presented at the time of registration and excess canned goods on hand as of february 21 must be declared OPA has previously ruled that each member of the household may have five cans of eight t ounces or larger on hand at the time of registration and still escape having coupons removed from the new book STRANGE QUESTION from the nazis where is the place you surrender this was a strange question indeed for the once proud nazi soldiers before stalingrad Stal ingrad ti to 3 be asking the russians but it was what the reds reported their enemies enemies were asking as they continued to flock in victims of the relentless soviet drive to free the once besieged volga city dispatches described the condition of the nazis as cold unshaven and distraught but the citizens of stalingrad Stal ingrad wasted little pity on their captives too well they remembered the long days and nights that the nazis pounded and ruined their city with bombs and shells in a single day 16 generals and a field marshal frederich paulus chief nazi army official in the area were surrendered along with bull hundreds of other smaller fry even the german radio admitted that these losses at stalingrad Stal ingrad were among the most serious of the entire war elsewhere the russians continued to gain ground or at least hold their recent gains in the leningrad sec 4 V tor the escape corridor before the city was widened and in the caucasus the drive for strengthened as new thrusts on the middle sector headed fresh for bursk and kharlov Khar kov WAR NEAR CLIMAX says finn president in a statement slanted for the united nations president risto told his finnish parliament that the war is is approaching a culmination point and expressed hope that th the e allies will understand Fin lands position dispatches from helsinki reported the dispatches said that did not mention germany Fin lands ally in the war against russia SOLOMONS japs try again the importance of the solomon islands in japans scheme for an expanded empire was forcibly demonstrated again when the navy announced another major jap effort to retake the islands even the I 1 earliest announced that american forces engaged the enemy in what may be 70 1 g IVI R A U S marine looks over a handful of bones all that is left rif of a japanese warrior to whom fate had given a one way ticket to guadal canal the new jap drive on that area indicates its importance to the grand strategy the greatest air sea battle of the pacific to date exaggerated japanese claims of united states losses were spiked early by a navy spokesman who added that increased activity on the part of the japanese indicates a major effort to regain control of the entire solomons area one ue making no reference to the jap assault said an american destroyer had shelled a number of barges at enemy held cape esperance on the northern tip of guadalcanal Guadal canal those barges might have been used in new ian landings dings or in coastal troop movements by a desperate enemy A week before the outbreak of the battle navy secretary frank knox described the american hold on guadalcanal Guadal canal as secure predicting that the remnants of organ organized iced jap resistance would be wiped out in 30 days the united nations were hopeful but not all were were convinced PAY AS YOU GO treasury style flatly opposing the ruml plan to skip payment of last years income tax the U S treasury department has nevertheless come out in favor of the enactment of a pay as you go withholding tax setup set up As presented to the house ways and means committee by randolph E paul treasury general counsel this plan would provide for the withholding of 19 per cent of pay checks after deductions this would be in addi tentative exemption Exempt ibn schedule if the treasury 19 per cent withholding tax plan is carried out some schedule of deductions to allow for dependency etc would have to be set up to simplify co computation in of the tax here is a tentative weekly exemption schedule which has bein been suggested single person 1100 married person 2600 additional dependent the victory tax of 5 per cent would als also 0 still have to be paid deductions for this are a non dependency basis allowing a flat 12 per week exemption I 1 tion to the 5 per cent victory tax t ax already in effect efel qt stressing the need of prompt action by congress paul said that t ha the 19 per cent withholding tax would wo ld be equivalent to the 1942 6 per cent normal tax and 13 per cent surtax on the first bracket and would simplify collection and unnecessary refunds by th the first bracket he meant the first 2 2000 of taxable in income after deductions it was indi indicated bated that while the treasury did not believe last years income taxes should be forgiven if the new plan is put into effect the government would admit that these taxes should be deferred and paid up gradually rather r than doubling up this year |
