The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 22, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8678. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BATTLE OF ATLANTIC IS RAGING U-BOATS IN RAID OFF ATLANTIC COAST ~ TOO PRETTY FOR CONCERT ~ Gross Sales v 2 BRITISH SHIPS ARE ATTACKED Radio Mess;g]; Picked Upi Says Tanker and Cargo Vessel Being Shelled MOVEMENT TAKES PLACE | SOUTH, NEWFOUNDLAND. Immediat eAid Flashed Out | on Air Then All Com- | munication Ceases (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) One or perhaps two German surface raiders believed to be U-boats are reported operating off the north Atlantic eoast. A radio message has been picked up at an east coast Can- adian port stating that twe Brit- ish ships have perhaps been bombed or torpedoed and sunk 300 miles southeast of New- ‘foundland. AR The radio picked up was from a British tanker stating that the tanker and cargo ships were being attacked by emémy ves- sels, The message picked up said: “This tanker and a cargo ship are being shelled by enemy craft and » ence followed the message. Canadian destroyers and planes are investigating. | CThe { | % | | | WASHINGTON — During debate | on the lease-lend bill, Senator Mur- | ray of Montana came up to the Vice-President’s dais and whispered in Henry Wallace’s ear. The bill, he sald, ought to contain a provision eswhereby Britain ‘would- buy ‘or ‘bor- | row farm products as well as arma- | ments. 1 Vice-President - Wallace replied | that he though so teo, but had not] felt it necessary to “spell it out” in | the bill. However, he mentioned the ’ matter ot Senate Floor Leader Bark- | ley, who offered an amendment to the lease-lend bill. This was the simple mechanics whereby the biggest farm purchase ! plan since the last war was started. Most people don’t realize it, but the lease-lend act makes the United States not only the arsenal for| Great Britain, but also her granary, packing house ana slaughter house. A total of $1,300,000,000 has been allocated out of the seven billions of British defense—most of which ! should bring sorely needed help to the farmer. For while industrial re- gions have prospered in this war, the farmer so far has not. In the last war not only England, but France, Italy and the Scandi- navian countries, even Russia' need- ed wheat and cotton. Farm prices zoomed, But in this war all these areas except England have heen cut | off from American markets by the British blockade. As a result, farm prices are low and surpluses mounting. We have a corn carry-over four times normal, or 700,000,000 bushels. The wheat carry-over is 400,000,000 bushels; while the Government has 11,000,000 bales of cotton under loan or wholly owned, plus 372,000,000 pounds of tobacco, 2,735,000 pounds of surplus butter, 3,609,009 dozen surplus eggs, 37.000.000 pounds of lurplul vege- «Continued on Page_ #four) . motion picture contract instead at San Francisco’s Chinese Sky will be one in whicl she nlays the violin. “Beosase-she*1s 0o prefty, the conicert career of shapely Beatrice Laidlaw is probably a thing of the past. The San Francisco girl studied years to become a concert violinist, but ended up with a when a talent scout mabbed her Room. Her first film, however, Nine Billion Dollars i | Gold Transferred, Assay Office fo OFF FLORIDA Puts fo Sea Accompanied by Several High Gov- ernment Officials ABOARD THE U. S. S. BENSON, Off Florida Coast, March 22.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today began a de- layed deep sea fishing vacation when the White House yacht Poto- mac put to sea with the Chief Ex- ecutive and several high government officials. Among the officials accompanying the President on the cruise are Sec- retary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson |and Harry Hopkins. Tanfi;l;s—l Is Repulsed By Grecians ATHENS, March 22.—The Greek spokesman announced this after-| noon that the Italian tank thrust on the Italian frontier has been suc- cessfully repulsed. Pr——p s BLACKERBY TO PETERSBURG A. W. Blackerby, CCC training of- ficer, sailed today on the motorship Northland for a 10-day trip to Pet- ersburg and Ketchikan on business connected with CCC work, Hole in Ground |in gold from the Assay Office i New York City to the “hole in (the ground” at Fort Knox, Ky. ! This latest transfer wook eight! months. The gold was shipped by! registered mail in 45 trains con- sisting of 337 cars. Thirty-four Army enlisted men and two offi-; cers, in addition to Bureau of the| Mint guards, accompanied every; train. The gold is in the form of} standard gold bricks (mint .bars) which are just a: little smaller than standard building bricks. However, that doesn’t ‘make them good for use as “Irish confetti,” because; each brick weighs 27% pounds—| and besides each one is worth $14,- 000 and who would be tossing| money like that around. Comple-! \tion of this latest transfer brings| the total of gold buried in the 387.22. i What gives Treasu Secretary : Morgenthau’s announcement itsi “thoughtful twist” is that just' when these trains were pulling| out of Pennsylvania station in’ New York under a blanket of great secrecy, Dr. Willam D. Coolidge, General Electric’s direc- tor of research was writing an ar- ticle for a national magazine (Am- erican magazine). He was talking |about the ways young people of |today might make fame and for-| tune. Doctor Coolidge said: “I've been wondering what we should do {1f our immense hoard of gold be- comes valueless, as some econo-| mists predict. Gold, aris- tocrat among metals, 1s of little, practical good. Some day we may| have to take it back to the:labora-| tory and work out spme useful, menial task for it. The ma&n who discovers what to do with lold; may make a fortune.” | | (Continued on page 8ix) ! Treasurer and the Auditor, with the | vaults of Fort Knox to su,fi'lsmsm.—‘t | ture would make a study of the Al- - Tax Before " Legislature ‘Would levy_ fr;Jm Quarter | to One Percent on All ] Activities A bill for a gross sales tax, intro- duced by title on the 4th day of the legislative session, was brought forward today in the Senate. Fol- lowing death of the net income tax measure yesterday afternoon, a staff of Legislators, secretaries and cierks worked all last night to write and mimeograph the 49-page bill. The sales tax measure levies a !tax against gross value of products.| gross proceeds of sales or gross in- come of business, as follows: Rates of Taxation On those engaged as “extractors,” !one-fourth of one percent of thef value of products extracted. On manutacurers, one-fourth of one percent of the value of products manufactured. On retailers, one-half of one per- cent of gross sales, On wholesalers, one-forth of one percent of gross proceeds. On printers and pubiishers, one- half of one percent of gross incoine, On utilities, one percent of gross : cluding repairing, personal, business, On other business activities (in- cluding repairng, personal, busness, professional, mechanical and educa- tional service business, abstract and title insurance, fanancial, brokerage, construction- contracting and sub- contracting, advertising and hotel businesses), one percent of gross | income, Taxes imposed by the act would be payable every two months. Not Te Be Passed On ‘The bill states it is not the purpose of the act that the taxes levied the Territory, a use tax of one-half of cne percent is levied. The act would be administered by an Alaska Tax Commission consist- ing of the Attorney General, .the Treasurer as Chairman. The Com-| mission would appoint a Supervisor of Taxation at a salary of from $4,00 to $6,000. ‘The bill also carries an appropria- tion of $100,000 to carry out the pro- visions of the act. The bill carries the name of Sen- ator Norman R. Walker of Ketchi- kan, , Cochran Objects When the bill came out of Taxa- tion Committee this morning with a unanimous “without recommenda- tion” report, Senator O. D. Cochran of Nome objected to receiving the bill on the grounds that it was not he same measure as was intro- duced by Walker by title only on the 45th day. Walker then moved that the bill | be deemed a committee substitute and the motion carried, five to three, with Cochran, Edward Coffey | and Leroy Sullivan voting against.! Committee Recommended The bill will go on Monday’s endar for second reading. Another bill relating to taxation came out of committee today, Fi- nance recommending that Sullivan’s | bill for appointment of a Legislative | Tax Committee be passed. Not con- | cal- ; | curring in this recommendation was | _ CAIRO, March 22—British Head- Senator Walker. The Committee, | made up of members of the Legisla- | aska tax structure, employ experts and report back to a special session | in the Fall. i Pt < A statisticlan estimates that if a single train were assigned to R EVOLT |§ | Lithuanian Ex-Leader Atrives ? 'SPREADING, . YUGOSLAVIA General Pop—ul_ace Appears Absolutely Against Joining Axis Pact ONE POLITICAL PARTY DEMANDS RESIGNATIONS i mier of Little Nation Is | S ‘\ (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Revolution is smouidering in Yu- goslavia In _Belgrade, the Independent Demoocratic Party, fourth of the most important in Yugoslavia, has ordered all members holding Gov- ernment jobs to resign as a poli¥ical revolt against the Government's plan to accede to the German de- mands for a modified affiliation, with ke Rome-Berlin-Tokyt Axis spread. | It is officially reported in British| circles at Cairo that former Premier, Stoyadinovich of Yugoslavia, who is pro-German, has been turned over td British hands by the Yugoslavia' Government for safekeeping. BRITISH AID BILLISGOING TOBEPASSED jecting the proposal by Senator | Gerald P. Nye to cut the amount in half, the Senate Appropriations | Committee today approved unani-| mously the Seven Billion dollar ap-| propriation to carry out the British | Aid program, | The measure has been passed by the House. i The Semate will consider the ap-| propriation on Monday and Demo-| cratic Leader Berkley said the bill| will be passed and sent to President | Roosevelt by Monday night. Even| opponents concede the appropriation | will be carried overwhelmingly with- | out any major change. | ITALIANS LOSE OASIS IN DESERT 1 British Mak_e_taplure of, Strafegic Point-Also | 800 Soldiers ] quarters report the capture of Giar- abub, 'long defended strategic It-| alian oasis in the Eastern Libyan desert. i It is said that 800 Italian soldiers! ———eee More than 99 percent of the| sulfur produced in the United, travel all railway trackage in the States ig obtained ' in six opera-| 'Former Pro-German Pre- D Antanas Smetona, first and last president of Lithuania, and his wife ‘talk'to reportere as they arrive in New York, refugees from which took bver their country, Smetona says he believes he is the only one of the three Baltic presidents to have survived Russia's seizures last June, that the leaders of Latvia and Estonia died after being taken to Russia. MORE SHIPS SENT DOWN | BY GERMANS | Bameships,—_Submarines, | Long-range Bombers t Reported in Action 'PLYMOUTH AIR RAIDED IND SUCCESSIVE NIGHT 'Six-hour Atfack Is Made— Casualties Are Be- ‘ lieved Heavy (BY ASSOCIATED PRES) Destruction of 224,000 addi- tional tons of British shipping, and more than half of this by battleships, is today claimed by Germany as the battle of the Atlantic increased with the lengthening daylight hours. The official German com- . munigue said German battie- ships sunk 22 ships, totaling 116,000 tons, submarines got 11 ships of 77,000 tons off West Africa and long-range bombers operating on the Atlantic far off the coast accounted for the re- the Soviet, But She Eloped with Another | mainder of the destruction. It is claimed some of the destruc- tion was in the Mediterranean Sea waters. PLYMOUTH AGAIN RAIDED | The German luftwaffe concen- | trated again on the English sea- port of Plymouth last night, | blasting many business houses | and blocks of residences. The assault lasted six hours and was , the second successive night of | raiding on the port. ! Casualties are believed to have 1 been heavy. Iy his bri the-army 'ownsend, in; ialite, 1s shown with John B. Rogers z \Wa) 'r.o-“ s 'lolcrewell party. He was her fiance, she | to-be, En two weeks later Peggy and Martin Vogel, son of | I4he ‘late Assistant U. S. Treasurer, eloped. They were wed ip [« amden, 8. C. RAF Atfacks |nEhiopia CAIRO, March 22.—A communique from the British Headquariers says Royal Air Force bombers attacked the railroad between Addis Ababa and Diredawa and machine gunned three trains also bombed railroad stations with considerable success. Io_rpedo'ing In Aflaatic NEW YORK, March 22—A Ger- man radio broadcast picked up by NBC reports the torpedoing of the 2,000 ton steamer Pacific on the At- United States at 60 miles an hour,! tions—one in. Loulsiana and five lantic probably “by a German bat- it would take 292 days. in Texas. tleship.” flncoine Tax Refurns in Greaf Jump WASHINGTON. March 22.—The Treasury Department announces col- lection of a record total of $1,139,- 384,637 in income taxes for the first 20 days of March. During the first 20 days of Marcn last year only $621,448616 was the sum reported collected. FIREMEN CALLED TO ROYAL CAFE STOVE Juneau firemen were called to the Royal Cafe shortly before 9 [ 1 “shall be construed as taxes upon the | G RIN AN L SO purchasers or customers, but it is the | Orev Pearsc | |intention that such taxes shall be ‘ -4 | By JACK STINNETT iy . | | b Robert S. Alles ROOSEVELT | WASHINGTON, March 22 “;;T:er:op:xtm:';‘:“gm::e:::tu:ifii EV&I’I 0pponems Contedm , S N | Thought-for-Today - Dept—Accard.. Sctvites herein aesignated anc tnat| Measure Will Gef Over- | tsuch taxes shall constitute a part ° 'ing to the Treasury, Department, of the operating overhead of such whelming Senate vo'e ! | | the Government _has Just complet-: persons engaging in business.” 25 ‘ed transfer of nine billion dollars; To tax articles purchased outside WASHINGTON, March 22.—Re- ON ATLANTIC ‘Official German News Agency Says German Fleet Operating (By Associated Press) The official German news agency, the DNB, today says that for the first time in naval history, the first |line of German warships, a large unit, is now operating in the open Atlantic. The DNB says Admiral Luetjens is now on the Atlantic with a “large German group of naval craft.” The DNB also claims that five vessels from Canada have been Sunk during the past several days. S it ‘THIRD TICKET i FOR ELECTION IS FILED TODAY Citizens’ l—’r_ogressive Group Headed by Mc- Cormick for Mayor - Third complete filing for munici- pal offices in the City election April 11 was made today as the Citizens' o'clock this morning to prevent a progressive Ticket was filed in the fire that might have started from a back-fired oil stove. Fire Chief V. W. Mulvihill said the only fire present was in the stove and that firemen quickly eliminated the danger of a blaze. City Clerk’s office. John McCormick filed for Mayor;. G. E, Allen, Dr. O, C. Carter, and Ernest Parsons for Councilmen- for- two year terms and ‘Kenyon Mae-" Lean for Councilman for one year.