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whenever such action is deemed I necessary by the Army FilteringCenterPlans also are being completed for a public alarm signalling system for both air raid warnings and for all-clear notifications. These will be announced in a few days. It is planned to make one public test of these ■ warnings prior to their standby use for emergency only.Committee Turns Attention Anew To General Assessment.No 6Continued From I Page One 1USE VOLUNTEERS ’youths between 18 and 20 and older men between 45 and 65 will be registered for such” “war work as they can perform, not in active military service.There are still many men who have already registered in October one year ago and on attaining their majority last July who have not been classified for immediate call, and a great number of them will be reclassified to fill the quotas of the next few months, until the machinery is set up for the listing and classification of the men who register in February.INDUCTION IS SPEEDEDCOLUMBUS, Jan. 10 (ff)—Despite rapid expansion of America’s wartime Army, selective service officials have no intention of drafting men from Ohio’s busy war industries or those indispens able to civilian welfare, but they’ll tighten up on 1-A classifications, That word came jtoday from C W. Goble, state selective service director, who sai dthere would be no change in the present poilcy of granting occupational deferments He declared that the 330 draft boards would administer theirwork with “good common sense.Goble said board members would heed the warning of national director Lewis B. Hershey against becoming “hysterical and indiscriminately classify men for service because the United States was at war.”While the state has ceased announcing draft calls and quotas the war department has made no secret of the fact that inductions are being speeded up, drawing rapidly on the reserve of 1-A. No General reclassifications are expected with the exception of men with working wives and men who have married since last summer Many registrants in those groups may be put in 1-A.Men with slight defects who have been listed in 1-B also may be classified ,for active service,M _ 7 Continued From1X0 / Page OnoAIR RAID WORKII. S. SALES TAX SAINING FAVORWASHINGTON, Jan. 10 — (JP)— Members of the House ways and means committee, searching for $7,000,000,000 in new general revenue, appeared to be giving increasing though reluctant attention today to a general sales tax.A poll of the 25 members showed that only a few were willing at this time to commit themes to thnt method of ohtnin-ing hew funds to help pay ,for 1942’s $56,000,000,000 war program. But many others said they regarded it as a comparatively painless tax that “we hay have ,.0 come around to.”In asking $7,000,000,000 of new general taxes, in addition to $2,-0010,000,000 of new social security levies, President Roosevelt said that in the past he had opposed general excise and sales taxes but added:‘In the face of the present financial and economic situation, however, we may be compelled o reconsider the temporary necessity of such measures.” Preliminary suggestions advanced by the treasury, it is understood, have made no mention of sales tax and have involved chiefly increases in present taxes One treasury suggestion, members of Congress said, was that income tax exemptions be lowered from $1,500 to $1,000 for married couples and from $750 to $500 for single persons. Others involved increases in corporate taxes and excise levies such as those on liquor, tobacco and j oline.Asserting that these proposals would not raise sufficient revenue, Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said it was becoming evident that to meet the President’s budget Congress would have to resort to a sales tax or a withholding tax whereby the government would take a percentage of each pay check.He added that he would prefer a payroll tax, possibly of 10 percent, “because it would be less inflationary in its effect than a sales tax.”Jenkins (R-Ohio) said: “If we can’t raise taxes by the accepted principle of ability to pay, we must go on to*the sales tax.”Miss Luella Siles Is Taken By Deathand at least three assistant wardens will function. In addition, there will be two Senior waterfront Wardens operating from power boats. The Cedar Point area in the city will have a residential warden also.The majority of the Senior War dens have been appointed, but the call is now being made for about 14 more suitable volunteers to fill vacancies remaining in a number of scattered sectors, as well as for assistant wardens in many sec tors. Except in possible emergencies, the duties of the air raid wardens can be performed in spax-e time. Yet their work is ex tremely impoi'tant and a vital part of Civilian Home Defense. A special course in training will be started by the Senior Wardens as a group, as soon as ox-ganization is completed. Names and locations of all Wardens will be made public and thorough acquaintance between Sector Wardens and all residents of the sector, will be arranged for.Information as to x-emaining vacancies may be obtained from Chief Warden Milkey, and fx-om James Parker who has been appointed chief assistant. An application blank appearing in this issue should be filled out and mailed. Remaining applicants are to be called for a final selection meeting during the coming week.The control center, located at the central fire station, is being equipped and made x-eady to function in any air raid emergency. Direct telephone connections will be made from this local control center with the Army Filtering Center where all area information is compiled and orders are issued. The local organization receives its call for ac-!Miss Luella Siles, 47, 1213 N, Depot-st, died at 10:15 o’clock last night in Good Samaritan Hospital where she was taken after suffering an attack of illness on McDonough-st near N. Depot-st.Erie-co Coroner E. C. Wiegand said death was due to natural causes.She was removed to the hospital by Pati-olmen Ed Smith and Curtis Krebs. Police had received a telephone call that a woman had collapsed on the sidewalk. She died within a short time after being admitted to the hospital.The body has been removed to the Frey Funeral Home. Further details will be announced lat-Bowling Green First To Condense Course Of Study To 3 YearsthBOWLING GREEN, Jan. 10-Bowling Green State University today became the first Ohio college since the outbreak of war to condense Its four-year program into three years. Students desirous of remaining four years may do so.Those graduating from high school this sprixig may start an 11-week summer temx June 15 and be graduated in exactly three years i Clt; by atte-ding classes during three regular school years and three summer sessions.The 11-week summer term will start 10 days after commencement and parallel the regular eight-week term that attracts several hundred graduates and undergraduates each summer.We're fortunate to have the tion through this control centeri taculty and the physical plant toi to
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