New Federal Tax Plan Aims At Higher Share For Increased Incomes
Treasury experts and the House Ways and Means Committee pressed a draft of a new tax form to tax gains from war related income at higher rates. The committee ordered study on feasibility and to draft a general tax measure with higher levies starting September 8 on a non partisan basis. Alternate revenue ideas include sales tax spending tax compulsory savings and higher corporate taxes.
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Congressional
Treasury
House
Ways and Means
Evatt urges island hopping strategy for Pacific victory
Evatt says separate attacks on every Japanese held land are impractical. He cites success of island hopping in the Mediterranean and urges targeting crucial Pacific islands to pressure Japan from all directions with support from Britain and the United States. He spoke in Leeds during a ceremony granting him Freeman status.
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Pacific
Evatt
Africa
Europe
United States
City and County Real Estate Transfers Summary
List of transfers with buyers and sellers including Dunlap, Dellinger, Smith, Lauck, Hillyard, Woolfolk, Kremer, Messick, Schreck, Faircloth, Ainsworth in Middletown and surrounding areas. Properties range from unimproved lots to improved dwellings and warehouses on Piccadilly and West Cork streets, with values from $1 to $4,325 and totals under $2,600.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WiIneNee
D. E. Dunlap
Jerry J. Dunlap
W. W. Dellinger
E. F. Smith
North Side
East Piccadilly
L. K. Dellinger
E. F P. Smith
Piccadilly Street
Claude Donald
John P. Lauck
Harris East Orchard Tract
Rebecca M. Dale
Bertie J. Hillyard
West Side
South Kent
John C. Woolfolk
Clarence J. Robinson
West Cork
Harry R. Pingley
John Thomas Kremer
Greystone Terrace
Shryock Avenue
Frederick County
Russell B. Messick
Bruce Schreck
Stonewall District
Hamilton E. Faircloth
Ludessa
Minister Laser In Gas Case
Hartford July 7. New gas rules allow one round trip to a summer home under A gasoline rationing. Fletcher D. Parker of the Office of Price Administration says this does not help him after his A and C rations were suspended to Oct 1. He faced charges for non essential driving to his Lake Sunapee New Hampshire summer home. OPA spokesman added the regulation arrived too late to aid Parker.
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Hartford
Conn
Fletcher D. Parker
Price Administration
OPA
Lake Sunapee
N. H
Victory Garden
Parker
Farmer Injured While Making Hay in Toms Brook
Alva Rosenberger, a prominent Toms Brook farmer, is hospitalized at Memorial with severe lacerations to his left arm face and head after a team of horses bolted while making hay. He was thrown to the ground as the rear wheel narrowly missed him. no bones were broken but arm injuries are serious.
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Alva Rosenberger
Toms Brook
Memorial Hospital
Rosenberger
Damage from dogfish to Massachusetts fishing gear
Damage totaling 400000 dollars is caused by dogfish damaging fishing gear off Massachusetts coast each year.
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Massachusetts
Market Quotation Wire from Baltimore and Midwest Livestock Markets
Baltimore market notes report weak apples and steady poultry eggs butter and cattle prices with mixed weights and sales. Chicago and Pittsburgh entries show hogs mostly steady to higher with top weights and vealers steady. calves and sheep mixed in demand and price.
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Baltimore
Pa. Bu
Baltimore Grain Market Closing
Baltimore reports closing prices for grain with No 2 red winter wheat at 1.53 for July delivery and Winchester Market wheat at 1.45. Corn listed at 1.10 with prices based on mill delivery.
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Baltimore
Winchester
Airman Off Beam Causes Excitement In Oklahoma
Boise City Oklahoma on July 7 witnessed a misdirected air raid when a Yankee airman off the beam halted a July 4 celebration by pulling the master switch at the city light plant. Officers from Dalhart Texas said the plane from a unit based there strayed toward a practice range near Conlon Texas and mistook Boise City for the range. No injuries occurred and property damage was light including a hole in the Baptist church and damage to a garage.
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Boise City
Okla
Oklahoma
Panhandle
City
Dalhart
Tex
Army Air Base
Conlon
Young People To Meet Thursday
A meeting for young people is announced for Thursday at 8 o clock. All are invited to attend. The article notes the White House design is said to be influenced by the Duke of Leinster's Dublin palace.
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White House
Duke of Leinster
Dublin
Market Dip Leaves Few Stocks Here Lower on Mixed Tape
New York July 7 scattered selling pushed prices lower with most changes in fractions. Backward performers included Chrysler U S Steel Bethlehem Woolworth International Harvester Westinghouse Dow Chemical DuPont Santa Fe New York Central and Southern Pacific. Gains appeared in Yellow Truck Consolidated Edison and American Power & Light preferreds. Lagging issues included Electric Bond & Share Cuban-American Atlantic and Arkansas Natural Gas.
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New York
Chrysler
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Woolworth
International Harvester
Westinghouse
Dow Chemical
du Pont
Santa Fe
New York Central
Southern Pacific
Yellow Truck
Consolidated Edison
American Power & Light
Electric Bond & Share
Cuban Atlantica
Arkansas Natural Gas
Local Markets The Star Dates and Errors
Local markets page notes daily corrections and disclaimers. The Star does not assume responsibility for typographical errors and any errors printed are subject to correction.
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Star
Grain prices slip after opening surge in Chicago pits
Chicago grain quotations show early gains fading as heavy profit taking pushes opening prices lower. Wheat climbs to 1.49 for July and 1.50 for December, oats around 72 cents, rye sliding from 1.15 to about 1.12, with declines under a cent overall.
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Chicago
Rye
Live Stock Prices and Classifications Report
The bulletin lists steer prices for choice 16 and good 15.25 with plain at 12.50, heifers at 15.75 choice 14.00 medium 11.00, and cows from 6.50 to 12.00. Bulls butcher 15.75 and 11.00 to 13.75 sausage, veal calves top 17.70 and bulk 16.50, fresh cows 65 to 155, lambs choice 14.25 and medium 11.50, fat sheep 4.50 to 6.00, hogs top 14.15 and 14.00 bulk, pigs 3.50 to 7.00 per head. Feeder steers 11.80 to 12.60, stocker steers 60 to 95 per head.
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Baltimore
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Pittsburgh Livestock
Pittsburgh
I. i
Toghott
Vomrom
Clarke County Histories and the Offer of a New County Seat
The review discusses Miss MacDonald’s Clarke County history from 1835 36 land grants to present noting the county’s early settlement west of the Blue Ridge and its rich lore. It highlights 273 families in the index, Fielding Lewis and Nelly Custis ties, wills of Elizabeth Carter and Fielding Lewis, and chapters tracing Patriots, wars, and local milestones including Berryville and a secession era political clash. It mentions illustrations and notable sites such as The Nook Retreat Frosts Mill Rosemont and Major Charles Smith era landmarks.
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Frederick
Virginia
Clarke County
Blue Ridge
Benjamin Borden
Greenway Court
Clarke
Miss MacDonald
Fielding Lewis
Lawrence
Nelly Custis
Washington
Audley
Lorenzo Lewis
Burwell
Winchester Star
Berryville
Crow
Winchester
Court House
Nook
Charles Smith
Genera Thomas Parker
Old “Rosemont
Nelly Conway
Clarke County History Noted for Local Maps and Genealogies
Nelly born at Annefield. Three Excellent Indices highlights Clarke County history with a county map by Wm. H. Kerfoot. Foreword thanks Richard Griffith and Mrs. Turner Lewis. Facts come from Winchester and Berryville courts, with family histories and military records examined. Clarke County A Daughter of Frederick available at Pifer’s Winchester and Berlin’s Berryville. Berlin’s window showcases old maps and portraits.
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Nelly
Robert Lee
Annefield
Ald
Clarke County
Wm. H. Kerfoot
Richard Griffith
Winchester
Turner Lewis
Court House
Berryville
Frederick
Pifer’s
Berlin’s
Farm Committee Seeks 1 500 Out of State Harvest Workers
A farm committee requests 1,500 out of state workers for September October and November harvest. They estimate 6,000 workers are needed across the seasonal crop periods with 2,000 expected from local growers and neighboring counties, leaving 2,000 unfunded. They project 2 million bushels of apples in 1943 and say 1942 yields were 3.14 to 4 million bushels.
Crop labor shortage prompts call for action and camp plan
The Migratory Labor Camp Committee urges immediate steps to secure extra workers and a housing camp as harvest nears. They request a conference with Farm Security Administration and extension service representatives, naming Harry W. Butler and others as committee members.
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H Gordon
Farm Security Administration
Harry W. Butler
L. O. Dick
Wyatt Richard
Roy Cather
Sam Hurst
Fred Sturm
Walker McC. Bond
James D. Gibson
Andrew Bell
OPA Allows One Round Trip Vacation Driving Start July 15
Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown announced that from July 15 motorists in 12 northeastern states where pleasure driving is banned may obtain permits for one round trip as long as it fits their rationed gasoline coupons. Outside those states the vacation drive ban remains.
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Washington
Price
Prentiss M. Brown
OPA
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Baltimore Livestock
George W. Kurtz
Stock Market Report
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North Kent
J. W. Grove Furniture CO
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Blue Networks
National Farm and Home Hour
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