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Blytheville Courier News (Newspaper) - December 4, 1943, Blytheville, Arkansas
Page fou Blytheville Ark courier news saturday. December 1, 1943 the Blytheville courier news the courier new 3 co. H. W. Haines. Publisher Samuel f. Norris. Editor James a. Gatens. Advertising manager sole National advertising representatives Wallace Witmer co., new York Chicago Detroit Atlanta. Memphis. Published every afternoon except sunday entered As second class matter at the Post office at Blytheville. Arkansas under act of Congress october 9. 1917. Served by the United Presa subscription rates by Carrier in the City of Blytheville. 20c per week or 86c per month by mail within a radius of 40 Miles $4 of per year. 82 00 for six ninth. $1.00 for three months by mail outside 60 mile one $10.00 per year payable in Advance. Time to report Well Here it is almost tile loth of december. Thanksgiving is past thank goodness. Christmas is just around the Corner and after that comes the new year. Probably you re Busy trying to find gifts for the youngsters the relatives and those friends who just must he remembered even in War time. You May even like some others of us be wondering How you Are going to finance Christmas at the current a a stabilised level of prices without suspending War Bond purchases or going Short on food. It s a shame to add to your worries but Between now and december loth you had better take time out to look Over that income tax estimate you filed in september and see whether it still holds up. It not you know you must file another estimate by Midnight of the 15th. In any event you had better Scurry around and find Money to pay an instalment on the tax. In the Good old Days income tax returns had to he tiled Only once a year. The worst that could happen to you on july 15, september to and december 15 was to have to write an instalment Check. But the Treasury was eager to protect the lower economic strata so you May have to tile four returns each year one of them a double report rounding up last year and prognostic Ting next year All at once. Uncle Sam. We Are told has tax headaches. The Bureau of internal Revenue can to get along on its $95,-000,000 appropriation. It must add 13.-000 to its 36,000 employees and that requires a further $22,000,000 for which Congress has been asked. Why on account of those multiple returns which the Treasury succeeded in adding to the simple original pay As you earn principle. To handle the red tape with which Treasury a experts Quot bedevilled a straightforward modernization of the income tax. # of course you understand that All these troublesome expensive returns Arentt necessary. They Are not integral parts of the pay As you earn principle. They were put on afterwards. We can not prove that they were added deliberately for the purpose of making the pay As you earn tax unpopular so As to create popular demand for its repeal. The impediments can he stripped off any time digress hears from enough voting taxpayers after which there could remain a sane simple efficient effective pay As you earn income tax. Revolutionary plans run an unique new nil Tippo engine cargo passenger plane that will in Safe flexible and economical to operate and that May revolutionize air transport. Or. Ford will find some of the old line plane companies hot in Competition for Post War business concerns like Douglas consolidated Boeing and Lockheed Henry Kaiser May have something to say and Andrew Jackson Higgins is not without ideas. It would not is proper to assume that or. Ford is going to Corner the big plane business. Neither in Wise to Ltd sell tin1 Genius of Detroit Short. His entry into the Competition should he i Fine thing for the air age that lies just ahead. Post car would it spreading it thin now the supreme to Ouirt rules that it is proper for a Union to attempt by picketing with a unfair Quot signs to ruin a business which has no employees except its proprietors. Or. Justice Frankfurter i Cep that it is quite fair for the Union to pin the opprobrious adjective a a fascist upon men who decline to join a Union for the privilege of working in their own Little cafeteria. The Law say lawyers is what the court says it is. But Justice and common morality thank god Are less flexible and ideological. And in the Long run Justice and common morality can change what judges think is the Law. Henry Ford announces that after the War he will produce at Willow a so they say we do not propose to feed a single person anywhere in the world who is not willing to produce to the extent of his ability we live be More use for a Quot Gimme Quot nation than Captan. John Smith had for n soft handed Lazy invade vice president Henry Wallace. A i he government is taking earnings of business away at such a rate that business is not being allowed to save capital to reconvert its plants Back la that trend continues it will have serious effects on re employment of the armed Senie Edwin a. Boo president association it consulting management engineers it is absolutely essential ii we Are to pre sell a free society that the people shall not be made dependent for their employment on tin investment.1 of either big government or big business Alvin h Hansen. Federal Reserve economist. The goal alter the War should be the maximum utilization of our human and material resources rills i it the Way to rout the forces of insecurity and unemployment president Roosevelt. It is plainly a Federal responsibility to provide Tor the payment of adequate and equitable allowances to those service men and women who Are unable to find employment Atter their demobilization. President Roosevelt. Many leaders of Allied governments believe a German collapse of some kind cannot be delayed Long after the Christmas holidays and May indeed come about that time senator Sheridan Downey of California a a i have the feeling i voice the sentiments of the average american in stating that we can be Good neighbors without moving into our neighbors House Erie a. Johnston president u. S. C. Of c. Its futile to deride bureaucrats if we do nothing to remove the reason for the government to employ them president Perry l. Green of the Ohio farm Bureau federation. In americans Are concerned with reconstruction of the world. I plan the reconstruction of Germany. The reconstruction of the world will not happen. Adon Hitler. A an unfortunate psychological Shock awaits mum families in tire United states who after tile War must give consideration to their invalids. Col. Joseph i Martin 5th army surgeon. Or boarding House with major Hoople out our Way Gail Dolf. Houd Dot super Herman have cow Imi by it sch Ici. Inc. T m Etc u s cat of a a i Tell you ii you weren thu r i fiends bid i Beard she washed War Bond jus before she App i l in that new coat Ducer Stone tract. He a nor Powell signed reaching for a cont. Vallee honeymoons at desert resort Hollywood. Ivc. 3 up a coast guard Lieut. Rudy Vallee that a millionaire Vagabond Lover is honeymooning at a desert resort with his Bride the former Betty Jane Greer. The stage and radio Start now a bandleader in the coast guard had a Lull military wedding yesterday. As he and his Bride walked from use altar under in Arch of swords. Miss Greer a former Washington lieutenant Walter Kane sex Hus i c Model and Valleen a third. His band 01 Lynn Bari served As Best first marriage was annulled and Man. Fay Webb his second wife died this is the first marriage for several years ago. Electrical repairs amp maintenance hoc ski expertly wired j. T. Charlie Stalcup a hone 2993 save 50 it on thiss is steel anti elastic stewarts drug store main amp Lake phone 2822 j starting monday morning klan mrs Billy walkers nationally known hillbilly band in person every weekday i i Sio. 10 45 . Ref Rhier a electric and motor service v. Vav. Tatum. Or. Cd. 557 Blytheville Ark. In Hollywood by Erskine Johnson turns of 1944. And you re going aka staff correspondent let be the biggest sensation in the it looks like 1944 is going Down r inure. You la dance a Little sure. History As the year but. You la act. Too. Its a great role in cinematic is Lory a Hollywood discovered the rest of Eleanor Powell. Yes sir. Producer Andrew Stone looked around the other Day and there was Eleanor she Wasny to dancing and most of her highly publicized legs were hidden beneath a skirt. Producer Stout looked at Eleanor and Suid he did no to believe it. Quot you re feet your he sputtered. Quot what a wrong with my asked Eleanor nervously tapping h r French Heel Quot they be got a body a said the producer. Columbus like. Quot i never noticed it before. Always. Ive watched Only your feet and legs when you Wert dancing a Andy took another look. Quot Why this is sensational. We won t even show your Eleanor looked pulled. Quot we wont even show my legs in what Quot a i his musical in a going to Stone said. Quot its Call d sen by j. R. Williams you play an unscrupulous wisecracking press leak a tar change Elanor s face brightened. Quot you mean Quot she said a a i done to a country girl who makes her Entrance in the first reel carrying a suitcase and announcing. A i m a dancer and the producer of the How says. Of yeah sister. That i gotta or a it always happens in All my pict a a but it does no to happen in this picture a Stone said. You Don t play a country girl. Then you help Tage a big musical show. Only get thus you dont dance in the Eleanor Powell did a double take Quot you she gasp d. Quot i sit in the audience and watch the How Why. It s never happened before. It s its a right a said producer Stone you see. You r a dancer working in another show but you re trying to make Good As an executive with an advertising Agency. You want to quit show Quot i Don t want to be a dancer i want to be a Star this is wonderful Quot Quot of course its said producer Stone and then a Guy tails in love with you. We give you the Glamor treatment by not showing your a or. Stone a said Eleanor a i love a still stepping but you get to dance of course producer Stone continued a Only theres a logical reason for the dancing. While you re working As a press agent we Cut Back a couple of tines to show you re still Dane my in the show but Well keep the dancing to a minimum. Only three i can to be Eleanor said Why in seven years at my a there never was a logical reason for my dancing. In one picture i did nine Quot i know a said producer Stone Quot i saw those pictures a sensations of 1944 will be different. You la be different. You re going to act. That is. If you want to be in the picture Quot Quot if i want to be in the picture Are you kidding this is what in be i been waiting Defoe Faral tart co. In l Mala do $221 wanted us i Altira. Alia pm can Trade year id far nit Are Taen my. We buy City property if you need to sell Quick see us. We buy without finding to purchaser. We Sele City property if you want to buy see us first. Rental a ency let us handle your rental property. Our charges Are reasonable. Loans do you need to borrow Money Loans made without delay. A Complete real estate service Tom utile realty go. Phone 861 112 n. Second St Jaf Doc Tjui Dau Qatsha by Faith Baldwin Quot tomorrow. Chapter xxviii to it iding through the Cool night with its lingering smell of burning Brush she said. Suddenly that she was thinking of leaving Cranberry and going to Boston. He said a a you re crazy you re needed Here. By your patients they re used to you attached. By the office and the rest of us a he added Quot your people me a she said gently Quot you la get driving through the darkness the Cool Crisp night silent thinking if it could be like this always if you could maintain the illusion two people alone two people together out of All the world doing their Job together Loving each other very much. He said slowly Quot done to go into anything in a hurry will you a on their Way Homo he said diff Dently Quot in be been wanting to Tell you something but in a a Little a what about a she thought. It can to be Nancy he a always discussed Nancy with me. Ile said Quot tile housing conditions at the Edgar Mills. In be started trouble. Your dad will Back me up. But its my show really. In be been talking out of turn to members of the medical society to some of the City officials the More honest City officials i might add. To january Yellop will retire from the Board of health. There a every likelihood that Jameson will take his place. Jameson is All right. The Edgar interests can to intimidate him. Jameson believes he a under obligation to me too. You know when your dad went to Boston for that last meeting and his kid had the Accident and they called me. In consultation. Anyway what with one thing and another i think pressure will be put copyright 1943. Mia service. Inc. The houses. I just wanted you to know that it May mean trouble with the Edgars a Aid Emily added hastily Quot hell see reason you can meaning Frank a a a Quot yes. By Ltd Nead Ivy in ii r came Early that year a Early snows High winds severe cold relieved by Short spells of Clear freezing weather skies like Black ice pierced with the frosty swords of Starlight. Jim. Going to a Call was astounded to find Nancy muffled to the ars in sweaters scarfs and a shaggy fur coat waiting for him. Quot you done to want to go this sort of a night a a he expostulated. Quot i heard the a phone ring. Do Lake me. In a bored stiff. Emily a curled in a Book. Mother and dad make him. I dont wan1 to throw went to the Charity concert. I be any Monkey wrenches into your been frantic a personal affairs Emily a a done to worry about Quot but a he said Quot if you and he a Quot that a Quot Nancy said a Quot Nancy does no to she said firmly. Quot but if you re in love with him a he persisted. A a in a not. Would i be contemplating going away to work if i were a Quot that a he chuckled. Quot in a glad. You done to mind do you not that he Isnit a Good egg and All he added gravely a your mothers going to be sore if any estrangement arises because of this. She a very much on the Edgar Quot what docs father say a Quot he said a go a a Well a said Emily Quot More Power to he took a hand off the wheel and touched her shoulder. He said wistfully Quot i wish you a stay Home and see me through this. Why do you want to go Emily a because in a in love with you she thought because its unendurable being with you because i can to Bear to look at you when Nancy a nearby or watch her. Amusing herself with making you jealous. Aloud she said Quot restless perhaps tired of being in one Quot that Isnit like you a he said soberly. Quot Well a she said lightly Quot i Quot you la be sensational a said pro to Cautte to do Sun Ethrig about1 Haven to decided Quot Why a he inquired. The ground was hard it crackled under their feet As they crossed toward the garage. Quot i done to her hand clutched the yellow paper of the wire in her pocket. She was so Nappy she could laugh shriek cry. She could t sit shut up at Home with her happiness. The wails would close in on her. She had to push them out. She said Quot the roads Are Clear the ploughs were through and it Hasni to snowed hard for several Days. No ice even. In be got to go with you Jim. she stood outside the garage door and lifted her arms. She put them around his Throat and stood on tiptoe to kiss him. She kissed him because she could have kissed the whole world she could have kissed lepers beggars idiots. She was brimful of kissing. Because she was Happy. Quot Nancy a he held her closely. Quot Nancy you done to Means a Quot i done to mean anything. Hurry. She scurried into the garage ahead of him Quot where Are we going a Quot the Hanson baby has the croup a lie explained. A no one in Home except the grandmother. The parents Are in new York for the the Hanson House a Small Frame cottage was on the outskirts of town. Nancy waited in the car holding fast to the slip of yellow paper in her pocket. She was saying to herself to Morrow ill see him. Tomorrow. To be continued
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