The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 15, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA K VOL. LVIL, NO. 8672. ‘ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1941. ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 100,000 BRITONS LAND, GREECE INDUSTRIAL CENTERS IN BIG BLAST British Warplanes Swoop Over Three Sections in German Land GERMAN CRAFT IN SWEEP OVER ENGLAND Trail of Casualties, Proper- fy Damage as Result of Night Attacks (By Associated Press) Air raiders exchanged heavy blows across the English Channel again last night. British warplanes blasted such industrial centers as Rotterdam, Dusseldorf and Gelsenkirchen. The German High Command said the damage to industries is neg- ligible but admits. somé. eivilians were Killed, others injured: * The British acknowledged the loss of two raiding planes. German planes raided Clasgow, Sheffield, London, Leeds, Plymouth and Seouthampton, leaving a trail of casualties and property damage. The British claim four German bombers were shot down over Lon- don during a shower of fire bombs. WASHINGTON—With the world spotlight focused upon the Balkans, the all-important situation in Italy has almest escaped public attention. Real fact is that Italy has been taken over by Germany, and that Mussolini is virtually a prisoner of his Axis partner. Uncensored diplomatic dispatches report that the Italian people are dazed, helpless, can hardly realize what has happened. In the South they are apathetic. But in the north around* Turin and the industrial centers, workers have sabotaged machinery, stalled production and great numbers have been thrown into jail. The jails are crowded, but sabotage continues. Italiane street crowds salute and cheer when black-shirted troops pass, then curse under their breath afterward. There is a growing rift between the Black Shirts and the regular army, formerly headed by Marshal Bad- oglio, but now deposed and residing with Crown Prince Humbert, who al- so has the support of the army. The regular army never did favor the invasion of Greece. In order to understand the com- plete collapse of Itallan morale, it is necessary to. remember that Italy has been fighting, off and on, for about five years. Her campaign against Ethiopia began in 1935. Next year came the civil war in Spain, lasting until 1938. Then in 1939 came the present war. Meanwhile the Italian people have finally realized that they have se- cured nothihg from this war—not even Tunisia, which the French were on the verge of giving them. Nor has Italy received any of the neighboring French provinces de- manded with so much noise and thunder by Mussolini. words, five years w fig| . with (Continued on Page’ Four) . v 7/ In other! the White House of the Semate’s Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley (D.-Ky.), spearhead of the Ad- ministration drive that put the lease-lend bill through the Senate, hurried to a telephone immediately after the bill had passed to advise act. Tarheel Queen Sylvia Goich Beating native co-eds, Sylvia Goich, blue-eyed blonde from San- 0, Chile, was crowned queen of the University of North Carolina st a recent student-faculty day @elebration at Chapel Hill 2 BRITISH SHIPS ARE SENTDOWN German médoes Re- sponsible for Successful Attacks Off Coast (By Associated Press) The German High Command an- nounces that two merchant vessels, totaling 11,000 tons, were sunk early today by submarines off the east coast of Great Britain. —ev o ——— RETURNS FROM STATES Mary K. Cauthorne, Advisory nurse, Division of Maternal and Child Health, returned here on the |steamer Baranor from the states. | NEW BASES " PLANNED ~ BY BRITISH Contempla@cupation of | Azores - Also Have Portugal Stations AIR BLOW) EXCHANGED ACROSS CHANNEL WHITE HOUSE GETS WORD MUSSOLIN DISGRACED | BY FORCES Ifalian Prer;i;r Unable fo| | Spur Forces Against | Greeks in Albania (By Associated Press) From the Albania fighting front | comgs the report, both from Greeki 1 |and German sources that Premier | Benito Mussolini’s personal effort | there to spur the Italion troops to a victory with the Grecian forces, has failed and he must go back to Italy | “covered with shame.” The Greek forces have scored vic- tories against the Italians on all | fronts. Mussolini has been on the Alban- ian front for several days and 48| hours ago gave his Generals until today to “do something.” They have not. | | | | Apgry crowds gathered under the AMERICANIS | ‘CONVICTED BY GERMANS ‘Widow of Newspaperman - Sent to Prison in France | for Three Years | | signal. WASHINGTON, March 15.—The State Department has been informed that Mrs. Etta Shiber, American, BERLIN, March 15, — Germaniwidow of a New York newspaper sources professed today great inter- \man, has been sentenced to three est in reports from Tangiers, Mor- |years imprisonment by German occo, the British contemplate occu- | Military Court in Paris, charged pation of thie Azores and will also;wlth complicity in aiding British make landing bases in Portugal. | miltary fugtives to escape from oc- | The Associated Press representa- lcuwd France. tives in Berlin have received no such | Maynard Bames, of the American reports but the highly placed news- | Embassy, cabled she was well de- paper Dienst Aus Deutschland says fended by a German speaking at- it is “indicated that Washington, | torney. United States, might have encour-| The German prosecution demanded | aged Great Britain to take such |her death. steps and doubtless will be of special |, Two others who were tried on the significanec to Germany.” same charges were given death sen- | The newspaper also says such tences and four were given prison moves are. in line with British ef- |sentences. 2 | forts to obtain bases in Ireland and R S g Enamd ‘ set up a more effective defense | ;::;::f;;:*;;:z;'f‘““'m"‘m°°lHOUSE FAILS | SENATE DEFEATS . OLD AGE PENSION | | INCREASE 70 $60 "RS_T VETO font Vote 10 fo 6 on Passing Birth Cerfificate Bill Notwithstanding Gov. Ernest Gruening’s first veto stood up in the House today when! those favoring passage of Rep. Har-| vey J. Smith’s bill for the issuance| of delayed birth certificates failed| to muster Lh:krequlred two-thirds| who make the laws. vote to override. s The vote on the question: “Shall It h&ppamed in. the House of the bill pass notwithstanding the, Representatives the other day veto?” was ten to six. A vote of when the discussion had turned 12 to four would have been re-|to taxes and appropriations, and quired to override. | what might be needed in the over- The Governor's veto message said| all 1941-42 fiscal year budget in the bill was disapproved because it' way.of revenues. It was Rep. Jere was so loosely drawn it would lew‘ Cooper, the one-time Dyersburg, to more undesirable conditions than' Tenn, city attorney, who paved the it would remedy. {way when he said: —eeeo——— | “The gentleman from Pennsyl- NEW DOCTOR ARRIVES | vania (Rep. Robert F.. Rich) has Dr. Fred M. Langsam arrived m‘mnde out his income tax, and I Juneau today on the normbwndlnm sure he has had the same ex- Baranof to become assistant phys- | perience I have had. He will find ician at the Government Hospital, that the Revenue Act of 1940 has | E .Pioneers’ Home Addition, Health Examination Bills Pass A bill which would have raised old age pensions in Alaska from $45 to ($60 per month went down to defeat | |in the Senate this morning, seven to one, with -only Senator Henry {Roden, the bill's author, voting in favor. ¢ Two bills were passed by the Sen- ate One would appropriate $175,000 i to construct an addition to the Pio- neers’ Home at Sitka. It passed un- animously. The other wus a substi- tute for the House bill of Rep. James V. Davis relating to health examin- ations. The House version would !hnve the Department of Health give or pay for such examinations, but the Senate substitute proides that examinations are to be given “with- out cost to the person or to the, Territory.” This means they would be paid for by employers 8s at pre- sent, NPT Federal income tax returns there are more of us this year than ever before), here is some consolation from the men over (and TOOVERRIDE MAKERS OF INCOME TAX LAWS HAVEOWN WORRIES ON RETURNS [ WASHINGTON, March 15—For all of us who have been sweating| —_— Seatle 'Black Oufs,’ Viid Test Again Air Raids The city of Seattle “blacked out” the night of March 7 in a graphic test against possible bombing raids in time to come, an eyent which left the nerves of 380,000 twitching after sirens screeched the signal to dotise every possible light in the city. Above, a fifteen-minute exposure shows the city under black out. hotel rooms of Italian Consul Antonio T. Milo, whose windows were sald fl have remained lighted during the test. Questioned later, he claimed his lights went out following the British marines (foreground) watch burning oil tanks during a raid on the Lofoten Islands off Norway. This picture was cabled from London. do you expect the people of this country to make theirs out?” | So, you see, if your income tax 'return was harder than Willie's homework in arithmetic, and you {finally filed with your fingers crossed, and are only just now emerging from the mental fog caused by trying to juggle 50 many figures, don't take it too hard. There are a lot of the gen- tlemen who made the income tax law who don’t understand it any | better than you do. | Rep. Wesley E. Disney of Okla- M.C. CAN'T UNDERSTAND homa explained that all those It was then .that Congressmar | complexities are just the govern- Rich tossed off consoling words 10 ment's way of trying to ‘be fair. all who burned midnight oil try- p¢ you want a simple tax bill, he ing to figure out just what we do gaid, you could get one merely owe Uncle Sam. | by levying on gross income. Then He said: )3 jthere would be no exemptions and “L may say that T had &n fn-'no consideration of individual prob- come tax man make mine out be- lems, The reason for all those in-~ cause I could not understand it./come tax twists and turns is Con- and I may say further that pretty|gress’ attempt to see that the man nearly every member of the Ways who has five kids and has to spend and Means Committee (the com-ig500 a year to make $3000, doesn't mittee that handles the tax bills)|get hit as’ hard as the bachelor will have to go down there andiwho gets his $3,000 across the have this man make out their in- poard and doesn't have to spend come tax statements because they;, nickel to make it. don’t understand it. May I ask the‘ Congressmen in both Houses gentleman was he down there 0| know that they want to pass a see the income tax man to haveifajr and equitable law. (Those his made out? Why every one of| you have to go down there, How™ already provided a substantial in- crease in taxes.” (Continued on page 8ix) MECHANIZED UNITS MOVE | TO BALKANS British Forces Disembark- | ed at Five Ports South- i em Ally Nation GERMAN WARPLANES ARE ALSO TUNING UP Berlin Admits Situation on Front Now Reaching Crifical Stage (By Assoclated Press) | The reported landing of nearly 100,000 mechanjzed British troops in southern Greece and the tuning ' up of German warplanes on the Bul- garian airports indicated a new :move on the Balkan war front. Neutral diplomats arriving in Bel- grade from Athens tell of the dis- embarkation of the Britons at five ports. It 15 expectec that. both British and Greeks will deny this disem- barkation - officlally, for strategic reasons. ’ The troops were landed at the various ports, names not mentioned, but Salonika i8 most frequently re- i terred to. Flame-throwing machines, anti- aircraft and snti-tank guns are mentioned as among the items of the British equipment. German circles asserted today the Balkan crisis is now “reaching s critical stage.” INCOME TAX BILL GIVEN {Ways and Means Recom- mends Big Bill Pass with Amendments Passage of & Territorial net in- come tax is recommended by the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representstives which to- day reported out the bill drawn by Prof. Alfred with a seven- th amendments” in the Senate a week ago by a vote of five to three. No amendments were submitted with the Committee report. Only member of the eight-man Comit- tee not concurring in the “do pass with amendments” report was Rep. Harvey J. Smith of Anchorage. Women Would Pay ‘The Taxation Committee of the | Senate brought out another tax measure with a “do pass” recom- mendation today It would extend the Territorial school tax to all | working women, would raise the up- per age limit for taxable persons to from 50 to 60 years and would increase the tax to $750. Two mem- bers of the Cimmittee, Senators Nor- jman R. Walker and O. D. Cochran, 'dld not concur in ‘the report. The jbill is by Senatar Hjalmar Nordale Iol Fairbanks.- | Another Nordale bill for a Ter- :ritorial code of highway regulations came out of Committee “do pass” with Cochran mnot concurring. ———————— | OLSON ABSENT WITH COLD Oscar Olson, Territorial Treasurer, was absent from his office yester- lday confined to his home with & severe cold. The Treasurer was back business day. N HOUSE NOD ———|on the job for the short Saturday - .