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Chatter-Box "A Youthful Column Doris Ann McGill ■■ Hello? ? ? hello hey! operator — operator please give us a line. We want to hip you in front so you won’t be behind. Although we've forgotten how to dial, we hope you’ll let us jive awhile. But off with the introduction; we’ll give you the latest gossip in Production. B. J. S. should be told that people can’t be what they aint and she should take care of her own troub les cause they can’t. Flash — Now guy and gals Sum mer is here at last so get you a job — Where ? ? at the Rock. When — now — What time — night and day. (We need com pany) smile. Remember the formal gradua tion party given in honor of Miss Dorothy Lawson, sponsored by Mrs. L. Jones, was strictly sharp. Everyone looked lovely. Dorothy I,awson wore a lovely baby rose formal, Marion in her lovely blue, Betty Fuller in her blue backless, Imogene in her pink, Louise Sea in white. Nolean in her yellow, Dorris Ann in her light blue with red accessories, Mary Carter in her pink ar.d black, Aneta Porter in her pink, Margeret Fason in white. William Payton, Virgil Mit chel, Arnold B—, Wm. Cunning ham, Bobbie M—, Brula Hailyin Keys, Willie Davis, Kenneth Wil son Dyson, Roy Walkins, Jimmy Myers, and others. Mrs. Lawson and Mrs. M. Parker, supervisors, also Mr. Jones. Boom! When a friend is in trouble don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. SHOP — do your shopping now for the 4th. Don’t wait for it to come to you. BING — Now that we all know the glamoretties we wish to hear from them more often. CLASH — What has hap pened to our 10 sweethearts? Are they still having jumps, Red? SURPRISE — Who were the certain fellows last Friday who had a squo over a certain shoe string — B S — does I J really mean what he said or just what is he trying to pull another Dagwood stunt! hint hint. Hay Kids — Have you heard Ruben Pince Little Bit Joe Glass and others looking great. Note •— I made signs before I could walk so please let me hear nothing about our talk — hay <ftals). Who dood it — who gave a street car man a $20 bill and he gave them change of 2 dollars. Bare Facts — What certain young lad called up a certain girl and told her not to put his name in the paper — or I heard — Well folks the glam orettis formal party turned out to be a success. The house was packed and were well represented. Every one looked nice in their tux and formals. (I fell asleep at 8:30 p. m. and awoke at 1:30 a. m. ha ha smile.) Get ready — Go — Who is the old young lady at the Rock who put flowers in her hair to keep up her glamor charm? Could it by any chance be our great friend Mrs. M. Benson? I wonder. Stop — the hay ride pickneck to be announced later watch for date in this column. Anytime — Anytime you let your friend talk about you it is because he is jealous of you so don’t let it bother you. (if you know what I mean.) (Something to think about) Why did J M try to loud talk D G M in Johnson’s drug store while my sister was there, why did you do it Jackie. Don’t spend your money where you can’t work. Since P D snatch board found his body was warm need I tell you he’s gone. What is so rare to D Watson as a day with Al? I wonder where ? is. Johnnie Mae says when she’s through playing she’ll tell us. Ruth Booker is serious but getting nowhere fast. Chatterbox Characters Reminders, Doubles Clark Gable—Edgar Nelson Tyrone Power—Eddie Nelson Betty Grable—Jackie Fisher Lil Abner—Arthur Ewing Moon Mullens—Earl Hunnigan Buck Rogers—Curtis Hunnigan Dick Tracy—Art Smith Annie Rooney—Aletsta Carey Blondie—Betty Smith Mama Gump—Joyce Gardner Joe Palooka—(Muggs) Bobby Freeman Henry—Booker Hollaway Winnie Winkle—Ruth Booker Bomb Face—N M R Daisy May—Nadine Hancock Cousin Week Eyes—Leonard Ewing Romeo—Frank White Little Joe—Pitman Foxall Dillenger—Tommy Upture Sweet Sue—Katherine Watts Stone Head—George Wesley Casonava—Butch Samuells I_ BUNDED WHISKEY 86 proof—60% groin neutral spirit*. Schenley Distillers Corp, N. Y. C. All Laxatives Are Not Alike H y°u think for a minute that all «ce more or less alike you certainly have a real SURPRISE await whe!} >ou take Kruschen Salta. 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This drive also heads straight for the Berchtesgaden and •he “inner fortress” area of the Hitler gang, indicated by the arc. U.S. 3rd Army continues to thrust ahead (2) in its drive to sever Sermany, while in the north (3) the Allied Armies have Hanover inder siege. Bremen was fast being surrounded and a giant net waa tpreading around the German armies in Holland. NMICREK ijllllSlIplf •tThe FePERflL <SO^ER>JViEMT \ GOLLECTEP MORE THRk/ “ A *22 billion iki T/iyes FROM BUSINESS IK/ i '/fklK 1944 /■Ek iff nJ 1 A RECENT BATTLE ELCMJEP fc, JAP FIR1N6 fr &/ PiflyiNS ' 6CfTMU5lC CNER THE LOOP5PEAKER5 |S Hfl*) * ■ tiROZEM POODS WILL BE SOLO LIKE CIGARETTES INI POSTWAR ' i Nearly ZOO SPECIES OF SCALLOPS ARE KNOWN TO EXIST @NEW}/| A. TO ■ ^ MAKE A 5 TOM OF 1 A COAL LAST .-: 25% LONGER1 r IS TO i ; CLEAN SOOT OUT OF CHlMNE/5 fkt> FURNACES f '< Booby Trap By GEORGE S. BENSON President of Harding College Searcy. Arkansas - E3 CORPORATIONS pay income tax each year on the previous year’s earnings, just as personal income taxes were paid prior to 1944. In 1946, firms will be taxed on 1945’s earnings. But if war ends this year, (terminating war contracts) 1946 will be the year of change back, of costly sales and few. Problem: How to hire more men and pay 1945’s taxes with small earnings or none? | Any time a voice is raised in the interest of American business, any time a writer suggests that corporation tax laws need revi sion, somebody accuses him of apple-polishing or grinding the axe of big business. But right is still right. Prosperity in Amer ica depends on full employment; full employment depends on busi ness expansion, and business ex pansion depends on wise tax pro visions. Quick FIRMS that have used Money their war-year profits ex panding production for victory are not at fault. They are solvent. They will have adequate working capital due them under the present law after their Re fund Bonds are cashable and af ter their Carry-back credits on excess profits taxes are allowed. But when will this be ? As the law is written now, years will pass before the money comes. Food does a man no good af ter he has starved to death. Neither will money due a firm help its employees after bank ruptcy. What war -'production firms need is money when they need it; to hire men, to buy ma chinery for peacetime work, to save useful enterprises and avoid wholesale unemployment in their communities. Laborers and farm ers and small-town merchants have the most at stake. Hear Labor SURELY William Executives L. Hutcheson, pres ident of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, was looking through the i lenses of Labor when he wrote Robert L. Doughton, chairman of the Ways & Means Committee of the House of Representatives, urging the passage of amend ments to make Refund Bonds and Carry-back funds promptly avail able to industry at plant recon version time. .1 “Analysis of a large number of companies shows that . . . they have had to use their tax reserves for current operations, so that when war ends they . . . can not reconvert to peacetime operations and employment of men ... We strongly urge that these provi sions be amended in a manner which your Committee believes will make refunds available im mediately at the time war pro duction of these companies has stopped.” , Mr. Hutcheson’s letter reached Mr. Doughton’s desk only shortly ahead of one like it from William Green, president of A. F. of L. Are these labor leaders apple polishers? No! They are far sighted thinkers serving the in terests of working men, and they know how. They are not recom mending boodle for business men. They are intelligently promoting post-war jobs and prosperity for the United States. The (Sudden Cov i ! ■ Detroit, / I began with I! ONE VARNISH // FACTORY... I VYsCOVERED THE/ *%ILLS COULD BE USED IN IDLE PERIODS TO EXTRACT OILS FROM OTHEli SEEDS. 1 NUTS? /rCTT~^ VEGAN TO lU? PROCESS EDIBI w a £o/oie o/l f PROCC5S/N6 I llow HAS‘.'9 PAINT PLANTS; a SOYBEAN PRODUCTS PLANTS; 3 CHEMICAL AND PIGMENT * PLAN.S; 3 VEGETABLE OIL CRUSHING MILLS; 2 METAL PROCESSING PLANTS; 8 FOOD PROCESSING PLANTS; 3 MININ6 cos; AND 4 6 NAVAL STORES PLANTS. N IDEA W/TH A CHANCE TO CROW PRODUCES JOBS, PROFITS, OPPORTUNITIES, j ■2b l ( <>'wW»VA V-n y -/ I ft r**xo*f& DO’S AND DON’TS: One of the degrading things of any group is a public brawl. Keep those lovers’ quarrels at home! WHAT’S A CAPITAUST? Some of us think of capital as a big wicked dragon. That’s fool ish! Capital is the $5 you earn some week above what you spend. If you save $5, you’re a capitalist. 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