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Newspaper

The Canton Repository

Location

Canton, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Mar 30, 1942

Page

8

Treasury Proposes Expanded Family Tax Deductions

United Press reports from Washington that the Treasury proposes larger family income tax deductions to cover extraordinary medical expenses and for college attending dependents aged 18 to 21. The plan urges joint returns, adds a 10 percent dependent-expense credit limited to 100 dollars when the wife works, and notes no current deduction for medical costs or post 18 dependents.

United Press Washington The Treasury Randolph Paul Treasury Tax House Ways and Means Committee

Ohio rail collision disrupts two lines

Wreck crews worked to restore service on two railroad lines after a freight train rammed oil tank cars, toppling a dozen and burning near Piqua Ohio. The engineer Quincy E Davis of Logansport Indiana said he saw a signal too late to avoid a collision with a Baltimore and Ohio oil train at the crossing east of Piqua.

Associated Press Piqua Quincy E. Davis Logansport Ind Pennsylvania Baltimore & Ohio Here

AYDS plan promises no meal cuts

An advertisement touts the AYDS plan as reducing portions without removing meals or staple foods. It claims vitamins in a fortified form and says a 30 day supply costs 2.25 with a money back guarantee and a call to a local drug store for purchase.

Fairyland Castle Exhibit Star Colleen Moore Visits Canton

Colleen Moore former film star answers questions over breakfast in her Canton hotel before addressing Lincoln High students at 9:30 and dining at the Canton club in her honor by the Canton Junior League. The dollhouse exhibition at Stark Dry Goods continues as Moore, now Mrs. Homer Hargrave of Chicago, discusses miniature collecting, her eighth house completed in 1934, travel finds, and her charity work for crippled children.

Colleen Moore Bob Canton Lincoln High School Canton Club Canton Junior League Stark Dry Goods Miss Moore Irene Homer Hargrave Chicago Judy

The Pitfalls Of Love Continues Tomorrow

A tense chapter unfolds as Gus and Jim Watson guide Missis Graham toward a secluded house. Hidden menace hangs in the spring air while guards prepare, doors loom, and a wary plan forms among the group as gunmen close in.

Jim Watson Gus Watson Bill Missis Graham Dicky

Lost Auto Titles Costly Delays at Stark County Courthouse

Carelessness with automobile titles has Stark County motorists paying about 35 dollars daily in final license days. a long two abreast queue forms while staff duplicate lost titles at one dollar each and 225 bills of sale are recorded for cars sold before license date. Clerk C F Sherrard urges owners to store titles where they can be found to save time and money.

Stark County C. F. Sherrard

Lend-Lease Food Purchases Reach 800 Million

Agriculture department reports more than 800 million dollars spent on lend-lease food in the program's first year. Purchases totaled over 7.5 billion pounds, mostly meat and dairy, with shipments to Great Britain, Russia, and other United Nations. Meat and pork led the category at 237 million dollars. eggs and dairy cost 282 million dollars. Vegetables, fruit, grain, fish, and tobacco also purchased.

Associated Press Washington Agriculture Department Great Britain Russia United Nations

FBI Check Identifies Prison Farm Fugitive

FBI fingerprint check for Canton police linked John L. Deens, 36, Negro, to a 1932 prison escape from London prison farm. Deens, also known as Henry Blue, had been serving a sentence for carrying concealed weapons, started in 1930, and was fined for a suspicious person charge. Prison officials were to extradite him to complete his sentence as of the report.

FBI Canton Blue

A Plan for Stronger Families and Defense Oriented Living

A citizen proposes a partial program to promote healthier parents and children in America for defense. The plan urges daily walks, school and church participation, supervised outdoor exercise, curfews for youths, abolition of interschool contests in favor of intra-mural programs, and redirection of trophy funds to the Red Cross. It also suggests simple attire for commencements, reduced expenses, and defense savings bonds for class projects, ending with a prayer offer by request.

America Army Navy Chorch Red Cross

Minnesota grid star Joe Mernik boxing at Lowry Field

Denver reports that Joe Mernik, famed place kicking specialist of the 1940 Minnesota team, is now a middleweight boxer serving at the Army Air Corps Technical School at Lowry Field in Denver. He represents a notable athletic transition within military service.

Denver Minnesota Joe Mernik Army Air Corps Technical School Lowry Field

Driven Nail Blamed in Remington Blast

A nail driven into a box of cartridge primers caused a deadly explosion at Remington Arms Co munitions plant near Bridgeport Connecticut. Three workers were killed and four others believed blown to bits while eighty more were injured when a packing house containing rim fire ammunition blew apart. The Panama Canal had opened for navigation in August 1914.

Associated Press Bridgeport Conn Remington Arms Co

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