Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 17, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 4he stars and stripes Law excuses Soldier taxes fifth army continued from Page i Washington june 16�?when president Roosevelt signed tile Newi Quot pay As you go tax Hill late last week. He eliminated for the Dura i lion the tax obligations of the bulk of he men and women in tile armed forces of the United states. The War department announced today that under the Tenns of the i new legislation Mast of the soldiers who paid income taxes in March had made their last pay Merit of the War. Tile new Bill allows servicemen exemptions up to 1.500 dollars of base pay in Addi 1 tion to the regular civilian exemption of 500 dollars for single men and i 200 dollars for married men High ranking military a personnel in the upper income brackets. However will in most cases have to pay taxes against income earned in 1043 majors who Ore single and Mif a lieutenant colonels or higher whore married will accumulate some Jame it u tax liability since their incomes exceed the total exemptions allowed under the new Bill. Tax paying members of the armed forces however Are exempt from the payroll deduction provisions of the Bill. That provision states that starting july i. 20 percent will be deducted from event i in son s salary after a few Basic exemptions Are allowed. Income taxes owed by soldiers dying in wartime Are automatically cancelled. Thursday Jurse 17, 1943 russians report Home news in Brief Little fighting the same units about a in Northern Ireland. The King had made a speedy i Aerial journey from Allied Puree head Juat leis in his own private plane to the starting Point of tile Overland tour. He was greeted at the Ai drome by la. Gen. Mark w. Clark commanding the fifth american army and his Host for the Day. It. Gen. George s. Patton. Orit. Gen. Omar n. Bradley maj. Gen Geoffrey Keyes and maj. Gen. Hugh j Galley were also on hand a crack battalion of infantry acted As the Honor guard and the band played a god save the King As the ruler stepped from his plane. He was dressed in the uniform of a Field marshal. I Providence r. In a seven Man committee headed he it gov year to limn Cappelli. Was appointed by gov. J. H Mcgrath to consider a lp0stvt?Isi?Aei,s?n or Rhode islands too servicemen r-.r7 c.xu�?T,1ll>tl and conspiracy trial against Jacob int in Lvi i a to re plus Gamester and racketeer was opened today. J. Of county court in a 36 count indictment Shapiro is accused o. Extorting 500.000 dollars from the garment Industry. Id he i he to. R. S a Glt St Black Market veal was smash. War posit administration which suspended the Slaughter i permits of ten former wis Couin cattle buyers. The wha charged the c he with filing fraudulent Slaughter statements and killing thousands of calves every month for Chicago a Black s used for june 18. Market. Hearing is scred while inspecting the guard is its commander. Maj. Johnston barium Springs. N. The King displayed great interest in How the men kept their uniforms clean amid Field conditions. Maj. Johnston by ought h smile to his majesty s face by answering that the men washed their clothes with plenty of a Elbow grease visit s cemetery i he King s first act was to drive to an american cemetery Overlook my the Mediterranean year Oran i he dismounted from a Sedan drive mor Ristow n. Pc a nor Roosevelt aged to in mate. The Bov is president Elliot Roosevelt. Coroners jury exonerated William Don the accidental of Jal shooting of a Plav Roosevelt a grandson and the son of col o. A violent windstorm caused considerable j to it to Homes and f own a lines monday night y re i l us univ Hall won an important political Victory Day. According to Democrat politicians when president Roosevelt tort of new Yorks it Lor the v Moscow. June 16 the russians reported Small scale land operations in various sectors along j the Eastern front. Following a Sharp defeat suffered by the germans during the last two Days West of Rostov the invaders have been thrown Back during several Conn Terr attacks the army newspaper a red Start a announced. The dispatch said All has become quiet again along the entire sector except for occasional shelling. German planes around Rostov Are restricting activities to Day and night reconnaissance but the soviet air Force is ref sorted actively strafing enemy ground troops and raiding rail centers. In lie russians also announced artillery actions against the enemy j Southwest of Leningrad and in the dam j Smolensk area soviet troops blocked attempts of the germans to recapture four settlements in the Orel sector where renewed activity has recently flared up. Decision pending As Dempsey it asst divorce bout winds up Belgium reports jews deported in by a sgt e. C. Miller of Cleve i Case White Plains. June double barrelled Dempsey a Wreath on one of As London i he belgian govern ment in exile stated that since the nazi deportation program began a year ago Mere than 52.000 belts in jews have been sent to concentration Camps in Germany and Poland bread shortage acute in France London France is going hungry because Pierre Laval Vichy collaborationist with the nazis took and lost a Gamble on wheat futures according to information received Here the acute bread shortage in France is attributed to Lavers Reliance on getting the French North african wheat crop now in the hands of the allies. Many French Farmers ing to deliver to Laval in a i stocks of Grain. Are Refus their per canneries forced to shut Down new York the american Institute of food distribution warned of further closing of canneries unless Given Relief. A spokesman for the Institute said that the wage subsidy announced june la. Aids Only a few canners and Many canneries in Maryland Texas Indiana and new York have been forced to shut Down. Pacific coast plants will close unless Given Relief As Cannery workers Are taking jobs in other1 industries for higher wages. No forced savings says president Washington. June 16 Brand ing the Many proposed forced savings plans As unnecessary president Roosevelt announced today that he Wou d not recommend their adoption As Ion As War Bond purchases remain High the Treasury department has a i under consideration a forced savings plan patterned after the Keynes plan which has proven so successful in great Britain. I he plan Calls for a payroll savings program in 180,000 business firms throughout the quotas have been set at than Al percent of Gross and would tap More than land and Laid Hie Graves alternating Between the live drab Sedan Hying the King s Standard and an open command cur driven by pvt. John a Pius of Nella Ohio. The Loyal party sped by mile alter mile of american troops standing at rigid attention wit a Lull Field dress packs and fixed bayonets. The line of men  broken Only by massive tanks Aud tank destroyers wit ii their Crews in Lull Battle equipment. Ii ise mess Keis lunch was served in a Grove of Trees near the Highway wit ii the King sir Gtigg and generals Clark and Patton Ai the head table. It was a a typical army lunch served in army mess kits. It included roast beet Brown Gravy creamed Corn peas fruit cocktail Cane. Lent made and Tea. It was the second time in recent i months that a sgt. Frazier Woodard. Of Alabama. Cia., had been in charge of a dishing it out Lor important folks he Nad prepared the meal for president Roosevelt when lie slopped Oil at Liberia alter the Casablanca a unconditional surrender c o n i e re Nee. Woodard had Lour other negro Cooks assisting Cpl. James r Knox of Pittsburgh. A. Cpl. W. J. Cabbagestalk of Dazell vile. S c. Pit. James Nelson of fort Pierce Fla. And pvt Gilbert Lattimore. Of High Point. N. C. I he British ruler and his hosts joked and laughed during the lunch Aud while posing for official photographs Gen. Clark who is As lamed for his military deeds As tor his height stood on a Mound of dirt. Giving him a few inches advantage on the King who is fairly tall himself. A Oil no you Don to Quot laughed the King and he took the Mound. A ended on supreme 16 the divorce an Uncertain note court referee we for All placed it separa a divorced w i i i be a  supreme a tat Ivey okayed Hannah tion suit As Well As Jack suit a final decision exit two months will probably the same lines As the court judge aim a St invariably cents the referees tie Tings tile referee also dismissed Hannah s counter ant for divorce put upheld the separation suit on the grounds that Jack was cruel struck her. And Ca Ped her names of the referee s decision is a per Ved. It will mean that haunch will receive Alimony based on the i separation Milt but blame the bedroom doings will in Ulion Jack s wife both decisions. If approved Are not conflicting since one will fix the Alimony arum the other jacks divorce will fix the blame the latter is especially important in this Case for it will help in determining the custody of the children file Case closed after rued he had beaten threatened her with a Abu Edh a guest it the Dempsey maid. Sophie Holder pied these charges too a  s witness the French chanteuse Yvette Colbert failed to appear so Jack was not called r it answer charges concerning her j tick de Hanniah. Gun. And one time de King visits it continued from Page i f. D. R. Honors 10-Star Mother new York William Green president of the american federation of labor and Emil Rieve general president of the textile workers Union of America a clo an Liate told the american Lalmer conference on International affairs that labor will work and sacrifice to win the War. And aft a the War will help Joi Ioc economic. Gres sors is Well As political one Green said the workers it Amel it a have made a major contribution t  turning the War Scales Iii our favor and that through their Effort endurance and sell denial have played a decisive part in equipping the United Stater and Ute allies with tile  of modern a tare. In a manner never before seen in history. He said it Falls us it on american labor to shoulder the major part of the responsibility which will sustain the arms of the United nations and that the american workers Are prepared to do what is expected of them  they will do More. C hic ago mrs. Frances Evans ing he dined with Gen. Eisenhower and spent the night in Algiers  sunday wearing the White f # Mother of 15 uniform of Admiral of the Fleet whom ten Are in the xer he attended services in the a vice revived sees Omax Dos country not less payrolls 140 in i lion dollars of potential consumer nary reopens City to enlisted men los Angeles june 16-�?operations in the zoot suit War were transferred to the court room As naval authorities reopened this City to enlisted personnel at noon today. Seventeen suspected leaders of Youthful gangs were called for a grand jury investigation of recent Street fights Between zoot suiters Aud service men. Later in the afternoon the King passed along a Road bordering an extensive commando course. The \ Yankee doughboy were going at it w it n All seriousness although it was doubt us if they knew who was in the distinguished audience. I lie sight of a line of vehicles bearing three Star flags was enough to Spur them on. The King. Accompanied by Gen. Cia Fey Lett the car and took up a position in the vegetable Patch to get a better View of the Sammie in fatigue uniforms demonstrating Street fighting under the very realistic cover of machine gun tracers. The King plied Gen. Galley with questions and remarked that it wits a Quot Good Shaw Quot i he Day s Busy program was climaxed by a review in a Large held cd a regimental combat team. File King reviewed the troops Iron a command car while  band played the White Cliffs of Dover from there the Monarch rolled to the same Airport where he had arrived that morning. Again maj. Johnston s battalion provided the Honor guard. The King and the american generals stood in the Shadow of the plane while preparations for departure were being made. There was Many a Hearty handshake. Later. Gen. Clark conveyed the Kings praises to the Honor hard and added his Owr. Port Chapel. He sat in the front Row w Lule behind under the wooden roof of the one time Dock warehouse were Row after Row of White Clad sailors. Padre c s. Howard delivered a simple and Brief Sermon on the subject of a a Coni fort Quot his words being punctuated occasionally by the blowing of a ships Siren in file Harbor nearby. Later in the Day lie visited British hospitals and then drove eastward out of the City passed the sunday promenades w ii o cheered him out through the in i Cal Vitus forests Aud the Pine Woods he drove to visit a British 1st army rest Camp. From a Villa overlooking tile Beach lie watched the one Nile wounded lying in the Sun and swimming in the sea and the mommies when they discovered their visitor came plunging Mit of the sea and running Over the Sand. Gathering round the Balcony and cheering. They burst Forth with Quot god save the King a the King came Down to the Beach and talked and Shook hands with Many of his subjects. They Sang again this time for he a a Jolly Good fellow. A and so he was letter from Marvin Mcintyre. President Rouse veils Secretary convening the Best wishes of the president. The first eleven Dyke sons the youngest soon to let a inducted Range in age from 18 to 28 and include one set of triplets three sets of twins. And sex hens sabotage speedup plan new Brunswick poultry pert or. Willard Thompson found of he can t fool his hens into believing there Are More than 24 hours m a Day. After Peart Harbor he put his hens on a scientific 26 hour Dav in order to increase egg production. Now he a gone Back to the old schedule because lie says it had t made much difference. Only 1942 autos after the War Dorothy Thompson weds czech artist Vermont columnist Dorothy Thompson married Maxim Kopf refugee czechoslovakian artist at noon yesterday in a Little old universalist Church on Silvery Lake near her summer Home. Twin farms. Fifty close friends and relatives were in attendance for the ceremony i he columnist has been married t Wice before obtaining her divorce last year from novelist Sinclair Lewi. She met Kopf when lie came to do Are portrait. Extra holidays for n. Y. Pupils new York june in from now on it s going to take children a Complete year before they graduate from the first Grade in new York City elementary schools. I he time honoured one a and one a grades Are being abolished wit to the september term when the it it Bools and it it the system of annual instead of Semi annual promotions of Lei Ais estimate the savings at 16 million dollars a year. French Honor continued from Page i it reliable sources lie does not plan to attend them until a settlement can be reached this in effect makes the committee session hardly More than a sounding Board tor a Compromise Between the two Camps. Gen. Georges Catroux new governor general of Algeria delivered a speech to Hie opening of the extraordinary session of the Superior Council of Algeria yesterday. He reviewed the history of French North Africa since the fall of France reminding tile delegates tile debt that the Empire owes the Mother country her deliverance from the enemy. Casualties London. June 16�?civilian afraid casualties in May officially placed at 584 killed or missing and 733 injured Are the highest for any month of kids year. Do i Roi r general motors vice president a n d research chief. Charles Kettering announced that i automakers w ill produce Only 42 models immediately after the War i he said. Many Hoople told me tilt Public will want something better but All i can say us if they done to want 42 models Thev la have Fogt go without cars because that s All there will  cites railroads Job during recent flood washing Ion the recent record breaking midwestern floods did not prevent the nations railroads from keeping Petroleum moving toward the East coast de i dared Joseph b. Eastman in i Barge of National transportation he said this was accomplished despite damaged rail lines and property in a one of them it St outstanding transportation achieve i intents of this w  tile railroads moved More freight Between May j it and May 31, than during the j previous two week0 i bombers hit continued from Page i it tin Oiler was left smoking at cast e i vet a no the Bomi snuggle i in Between a Large number of Aires att like a Row of pins Quot w  tie Way Cut William c. Condy. Of Wilnett 111described the Mission. Or both of the Campaign. Another p-38 Pilot. It. Leon e Thompson of Chula Vista Cal described if this Way a the dust and smoke  Down and White a Lovely combination we Hen you know it comes from an enemy Airfield it was a Beautiful Day Over there in Sicily until we  the heavy lighting occurred Over Yorizzo at least ten Axis fighters at lacked tile bombers. For seven of them it was their last attack the tactical air Force continued to provide air cover for Pantelleria one patrol of p-40 War Hawki tangled with enemy bombers at tempting to reach the Harbor tik Jerries were forced to Jettison their Load in order to escape