15 Jun 1939
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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1939
Page
1
Analysis by Joseph W. LaBine argues current tax reforms leave taxpayers largely unchanged. Federal expenditures for 1939 40 exceed 1938 39 levels by about 1.6 billion dollars, while proposals center on repealing the undistributed profits tax and a flat 18 percent levy on higher corporate incomes.
The article notes rising world wheat output and low US cotton exports despite restricted US production. It discusses a possible global cooperative wheat framework and a planned Washington conference to consider export quotas and price controls, with nations including Argentina and Britain involved.
Religion item notes Germany bans Sunday church services on radio stating the air is a government medium not a confessional body. The report also mentions economic notes on rubber and sugar cane trends and a Hungarian political shift after an election. Merchants' Association cites a rise in five day workweeks.
Report from Tokyo describes Outer Mongolian troops and Soviet trained forces engaging Japanese positions along the Mongolian frontier. Claims of Russian air superiority and ongoing, intensified hostilities amid broader Soviet Japanese warfare in Asia since 1927.
A quiz asks who will accept a Republican presidential nomination but not seek a second term. It recalls a pianist forced to cancel part of a U S tour due to a heart attack. Floyd Roberts paced the Indianapolis Speedway Memorial Day Classic setting a record or winning for a second year, and a Gallup poll asks if the public blames the New Deal or business for slow recovery.
Regional officers launch a high pressure drive to recruit or reenlist 115900 men over 12 months to meet air corps and SCMCL expansion needs. Campaign uses 18 recycling stations on wheels posters films and radio to reach rural and urban youths. The largest target is a Met case of 25180 air corps men with 17000 expected to hold a high school diploma for aviation mechanic posts.
A New York study by the Twentieth Century Fund found wholesalers earned no excessive profits in 1929. Distribution costs totaled 38.4 billion dollars, with wholesalers 18 percent, retailers 33 percent, manufacturers 24 percent, transportation 23 percent, and miscellaneous 2 percent.
Answers list Sen. Arthur Vandenberg Ignace Paderewski and Floyd Roberts is noted as killed this year. The puzzle item includes Palse and a Gallup riding poll showing 6 percent say business delays recovery while 63 percent say the New Deal delays it.
Jim McDermott, formerly of the Immigration Border Patrol, recalls a 1926 night patrol with Roscoe Doane on a danger filled River road between Tonawanda and Niagara Falls. Their car was struck by a fast, unlit sedan, flipping and nearly bursting into flames. Army officers pulled them from the wreck as a farmer’s wife and a second car barely cleared the crash. Jim spent three weeks recovering with a wrenched back while Roscoe avoided serious injury. He later notes River road remains unsafe at night.
Dr Peter Schlumbohm of New York presents a refrigeration unit using propane as both refrigerant and fuel. The system, designed for trucks trains and boats without electric power, runs a rapid cycle to make ice and powers a small gas motor. A one ton per hour unit reportedly costs five cents per hour to operate.
Crochet pattern notes offer seven motifs from 4 by 16 inches to 3 by 91 inches with chet edging. Directions include charted materials, illustrations, and transfer details. Send 15 cents, name, address, and pattern number to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept in New York for Pattern 6348.
A country town barber shaves a visitor who tips generously, revealing the man’s three trades as barber, butcher, and paper hanger. The barber apologizes, and the visitor smiles, saying the tip is well deserved for a multitasking craftsman.
A short aphorism notes that narrow souled individuals resemble narrow-necked bottles: the less they contain the louder they appear as they pour out their noise, attributed to Pope.
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