The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 17, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8727. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1941. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS NIGHT RAIDS MADE ON GERMANY ROOSEVELT IS CALLED Berlin Sour?t;Say All Eur- ope Will Be United Against President BERLIN, May 17 — Authorized sources here today said “Let Pres- ident Roosevelt continue meddling in European affairs and we will succeed in uniting all of Europe against him.” The sources made the comment on the American President’s state- ment decrying collaboration of the Vichy Government with Berlin, also his statement that in the past American warships have been used lu protect American commerce and obtain freedom of the seas in dis- tant waters. BOMBINGS PROTESTED Resent British Atfacks on Airports - German Planes “in Transit” VICHY, May 17.—Dispatches from Beirut said Gen. Dentz, French High Commissioner in Syria, has protested to the British Consul for repeated bombings of Syrian air- ports. Dispatches stated German planes recently passed over Syria “in tran- sit” but had not landed at any air- perts | — | | | | WASHINGTON —It will not be announced, but Defense authorities| plan to permit a gradual rise in re-| tail food prices up to ten per cent by the end of this year. This increase is considered ne- cessary to cover higher prices which the farmer will receive when the Government buys vast quantities of food for aid to Britain. But Defense price controllers will not tolerate more than ten per cent, figuring that any greater increase would merely mean more profits for the middleman. 1 i A firm check-rein will be held on: speculation and profiteering under the lease lend food plans now be- ing quietly formulated. The au- thorities want to make sure that the moderate rise in food prices will go to the farmer; also they want to pre- vent any skyrocketing of the cost of living. Government experts cite tomatoes as an illustration. Because of their high vitamin content, the British want 15,000,000 cases of canned to- matoes, To obtain this huge quan- tity and at the same time not cur- tail the domestic supply, the Agri- culture Department’s county agents are.advising farmers to go in heav- ily for tomatoes. As an inducement, 115, | Southeast ' Alaska !catch at other times this year Engaging in maneuvers at Fort Riley, Kan., U. S. Army engineers go the Germans one better. The Nazis have won fame for their pontoon bridges. At Fort Riley, bridges are dispensed with entirely in getting mechanized equipment across water barriers for advance attack, and the machines are sped across on trolleys supported by cables. BY SYm“SRegulalion} on Fishing In Alaska Are Modified, Both Salmon and Herring ‘WASHINGTON, May 17—Sena- tor Mon C. Wallgren of the State of Washington announces that Sec- retary of Interior Harold L. Ickes said the Alaska fishing regulations have been modified. Extending to the south side of the Alaska Peninsula, the salmon season closing date has been| changed from August 10 to August There is also reopening of lhvf herring fishing, limiting the take to 50,000 barrels from June 1 to October 15 and allowing an additional 10,000-barzel| in order to encourage year round fish- ing and by which it is hoped will produce data valuable to makinz| future herring regulations. The| catch in this area limited to| 20,000 barrels ih any one calendar| month and the Baranof Island arca is limited to 10,000 barrels. | There is no chanze in the her-|{ ring quota in the Kodiak Island and ! Prince William Sound areas despite| the pleas of fishermen, except the regulations are modified regarding fishing outside the established fish- ing grounds where the winter catch is 10,000 as permitted in the South-| east Alaska area. Senator Wallgren said the chang- es were sponsored by the North- west Fishing Industry and the Washington Congressional delega-| tion. t I DOUGLAS ISLAND CLOSED | Opening of herring fishing 1n: - ARMY, NAVY - MAY SETTLE BIG STRIKE Shipyard TT(;up in San| Francisco Called Un- fortunate Situation | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 17T —The aid of the Army ocnd Navy | in settling the week-old shipyard | strike which has tied up half a ‘billion dollars in defense orders, is offered by Assistant Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal. | Forrestal said his Department is | shocked at the failure of the strik- ing AFL and CIO machinists to | abide by the coastwise agreement | recently reached between the ship- | builders and Union leaders. The walkout of 1,700 machinists has closed 11 shipyards and repair plants and 15,000 men were forced into idleness. It is stated here that John Frey, | National Head of the AFL Metal Trades Department, has been wired “requesting that he and the Com- mand of the Twelfth Naval Dis- trict and Commanding Officer 2t the Presidio give every assistance |to endeavor to correct this mest |unfortunate situation.” { ->ee - American Republics ; , . Are fo Ad il Will Establish "Provisional | i Administration’ Over Frendfiolonies S St B GRADUATION EXER turned to duty in the army, They're from New The Nile—Egypt’s Lifeline York, New Jerse! 1 OBERT RICE APPOINTED CITY CLERK vesmomon sae s ,stated with authority that 21 Amer: .ican Republics are prepared to tablish a “provisional administra-| tion” over French colonies in the| Americas if the forecast of cloa-) { “collaboration” between Germany and France is projected into the| Western Hemisphere, | —_— e Spouse Broke Leg, False Teeth; Mis(ellany_o_f. Municipal Problems Considered at Council Meefing 'his aerial view looks down on the River Nile as it flows through Cairo, Egypt's capital. Center is the Zamalik Bridge with its pivotal span pen. The Germans’ expected drive through the countries bordering | Egypt to capture the Suez Canal in 8 pincer movement has caused | British authorities to reinforce troops guarding the vital Nile waterway, TAXBILLNEXTYEAR - MAY BE TERRIFIC AS EXPERTS START WORK ‘Robert G. Rice last night was appointed City Clerk, succeeding Harley J. Turner, who resigned due to ill heaith after serving aimost iwo years. Rice resigned a position as Fiscal Officer for the Territor . Divorce Granted fal Department of Public Welfare to ‘take the City post. | Twenty-three days after ihe wed- Other business at last nights| ding, Mrs. Lois E. Otto knew the City Council meetihg included au- honeymoon was over when her hus- thorizing purchase of a power-|band. Alfred E. Otto, knocked her driven lawnmower for (the ceme- 90Wn. broke her leg, bruised her tery; considering a request from mouth and face and broke her false the Baranof Hotel: that Second ‘eth: | C IS ES—Trainees, among Iargrx!"grt‘l‘up of isplay their prowess in “graduation™ serv om'N y and Pennsylvania, ' Wor'kflMfla'y 1 Whitehorse | Lake region and Tanana Valley. LOW SCHOOL Southeast Alaska on a limited scale | tis similar to the action taken in modified regulations a year ago, J.| Steele Culbertson of the Fish and Wildlife Serice here said today fol- lowing receipt of a telegram from 'Pisheries Management Supervisor Clarence Olson with news of the changes. Last year, the original regula- tions prohibited taking of herring in Southeast Alaska, and though modified regulations permitted the taking of 30,000 barrels, operators did not take advantage of the open- Street be paved between - Franklin and Gold; authorizing the City En- gineer to make a survey for a tunnel from Fifth and Seward into Evergreen Bowl, after R. E. Robert- | son talked on the project, and hearing H. L. Faulkner, on behalf of the Juneau Chamber of Com- merce, urged that old buildings on| lower Franklin Street across from the sawmill be condemned as fire hazards and removed, but not if the removal would be expensive (o the City. It was announced by Mayor Harry I. Lucas that work would resume on the swimming pool in Evergreen Bow! next week and that the pool would be ready forl use within two weeks. JOHN W. JONES IS Today the Sitka woman was| granted a divorce in District Court | here. ‘The court’s findings of fact relate that Mrs. Otto left her hushand a month after this beating but he vis- ited her in her room, hit her over the head with a bottle, blackened both her eyes, hit her over the head with an alarm clock, choked her until she was “practically uncon- scious,” cut and bruised her lip so| it was necessary to have five stitches taken and again broke her set of | teeth. On another occasion Otto struck his wife in the face with a stick of | wood and blackened both her eyes.| | Another time he struck and beat her “unmercifully” with a razor strap. Not only that. but he failed to provide her with the common neces- | the Treasury’s By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, ‘May 17—It may be nething, for Joe Doaks to zet jubilant about, but his income tax burden at its prospective worst next year will be light compared to that of the English taxpayer's, though it should be recalled that the Englishman’s additional taxes are fewer than the American’s and that the per capita tax in England is lower. Under Mr. Morgenthau's pro- posals for increased levies on 1941 incomes (payable in 1942), -the $2500 net income married man without children would pay al- | most seven times as much as he does now. His present tax is $11; proposed rates | sities of life or with medical or |would bnost it to $72. | dental treatment. | - The English Joe Doaks in the | | ,son in the United Kingdom. | | Taxes, however, are not paid on a per capita basis. Experts here| say the so-called per capita pay-| ment is not a real gauge of the pinch on the: taxpayers, The sim- plest way to measure that pinch, say the experts, is the compara- tive rates of taxation on persons in given income brackets, or the pro- portion of total tax levies to the | taxpayers’ income. Per capita tax collections run higher in the U. 8. than in Eng- land because there are many more people in this country with larger taxable incomes. This is particu- larly true in the $2,000 to $10,000 and even up to the $50,000 income brackets. LITTLE INCOME HARD HIT selective service men ever ices at Fort Benning, Ga. Begin Soon RAF MAKES FORAYS ON NAZI AREAS British RelaTate for Three Hour Atfack on Indus- frial Birmingham (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) In the Western European air war, Nazi bombers intensified attacks on England last night sending 100 planes. over industrial Birmingham in a three hour attack, but the British Air Force retaliated, center- ing attacks on Cologne, Boulogne and other occupied German ports on the channel, and also for hun- areds of miles further inland. Raids were also made on the Rhine Val- ey. Great damage is reported to have been done by the RAF on the night aids. SEVEN ARMY MEN KILLED IN PLANES OnHighway [No Definife Routing Has Yet Been Decided, De- clares Gov. Gruening SEATTLE, May 17—Gov. Ernost Gruening of Alaska, engoute to Ju- neau after an extended visit mn Washington, D. C., said he hoped negotiations will start very soon | with the Canadian Government for immediate- start of construction of the Alaska Highway. He sald no decision has been | made yet on the exact routing of the highway north of 8t. James, British Columbia, but declared it will likely run fairly close to the coast and then northward from through the Kluane 'BUDGETIS ~ SUBMITTED Council ApereS Expendi- fure of $95,485 Here Next School Year A Juneau Public School budget of $95485—as compared with $99,- 260 spent in the current fiscal year —was presented last night by the School Board and approved by the City Couneil. Of the total, $38424.50 will be paid by the City and $57,060.50 represents refunds from the Ter- ritory Principal savings over last year were made in the salaries of prin- cipals and teachers and in equip- ment. Included as a new expendi- ture is construction of an overhang |walk from Sixth Street to the High School gymnasium, the present walk having been condemned as | unsafe. Two Shi;s_PIunge fo Ground During Cyclonic Storm in Ohio COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 17.—Sev- en Army men, five in one plane and two in another, were killed last night when their ships crashed fif- teen minutes apart in the hilly country of southern Ohio during cyclonic wind and rain storms. A twin-motored ship left Barks- dale Field in Louisiana yesterday on a routine navigation flight to North Cleveland. The plane refuel- ed and left Louisville shortly after 7 o'clock last night (then smashed into a hillside near Nelsonville, 75 miles southeast of here. Victims of the crack-up are Lt. Robert Sonnenfield, Lt. William Wiandt, Lt. Robert Brown, Lt. James Criswell and Sergeant John Davis. Two Air Corps Captains were also killed last night when their plane plunged into the ground ten miles south of Wilmington. NAZI TROOPS PROCEEDING TOWARD IRAQ Rumania Radio Says Ger- man Infantry Passing Through Bosporus NEW YORK, May 17.—A British broadcast heard here today said a Rumanian radio station stated that Germany hgs begun to transport in- fantry troops through the Bosporus, bound presumably for Turkey and Traq. It was said the Germans are leav- ing the Rumanian and Black Sea ports under the command of Colonel Scholz, who made a ceremonious farewell to Rumanian Dictator An- tonescu. ISKILLED * they are being assured of $11 to $12 a ton for their crop, about $3 more than last year's price. same category, however, will con-‘V tribute $586, or eight times as much as the Treasury would have ing. Herring fishing under the modified particularly hard in England. Over| there the childless married man| The little income fellow is hit| — - This higher farm price will add about one cent a can to the retail cost. This is considered a legitimate mark-up, but price control chiefs say that no more will be allowed. NOTE: First offerings of canned peaches on the West Coast opened at $1.57 a dozen and then were with- drawn in the expectation of higher prices. Last year the same peaches sold for $1.17 a dozen. Government authorities are keeping an eye on this situatien. STREAMLINED FOODS Because of the acute shipping ka, shortage, food items for shipment regulations will be prohibited in the vicinity of Douglas Island, where Juneau fishermen protested that salmon were disappearing due to de- pletion of the herring feed supply. Other changes listed by Olson in- cluded reopening of the waters of Rolph Slough in Nushagak Bay to! stake net fishing as heretofore; eor- rection of the descriptions of the Fribrock and Vogel trap sites on Cook Inlet and the Libby McNeill trap site at Cape Bendel in the Eastern District of Southeast Alas- The amendment to the Alaska ftishery regulations was signed yes- terday by Secretary Ickes. J | ELECTED HEAD OF |Miss Mullen Honored with a net income of $1,000 will pay a tax of $86 under the new } 5 !the. $2,500 American donate for JUNEAU SHRINERS Prior fo Departure s seeue e Morcore o | p | gressmen, familiar with the unpop-| t | | ularity of tax increases, may soften tax will be $232. The married man John W. Jones was elected prESi-} To compliment Miss Beatrice the blow somewhat, !in this country with $1,000 or $1,- dent' of the Juneau Shrine Club Mullen, who will sail south Mon-| However, the U. 8. tax bill next 500 net income wouldn't have to at a meeting held last night in'day on the Princess Louise, a des- year will be pretty terrific. Pro-!pay any Federal income tax, since the banquet room of Percy's Cn!e,ixert bridge party was given last posed increases in, Federal levies| the new plans retain the personal Lance Hendrickson was elected evening. Miss Carol Robertson was| are figured to lift the total, mclud-'exempuon of $2,000 for the head 'vloe!;Presldenstec nn; J. W. Leivers hostess at the family home on ing state and local, 322.000,000,000|01 a family, is the new retary-Treasurer. | Gold Street. |next year compared to about $7,-| 2 Plans were also discussed by! A guest prize was given thehon-'380,000000 in payments by the m::,fedp;s;z:lmflg:;fi‘:: ‘;0;56: members on the proposed visit cf oree and bridge honors were won English. while that of & single person is, the Nile Temple members from by Mrs. Warren Eveland, first, and| On & per capita basis that would‘”w compared with $800 for the Seattle. The visitation is scheduled Mrs. Robert Cowling, second. Miss represent’$167 for every man, W0-i.chelor in the United States. for August at’ whieh time there Mary VanderLeest won the cut man and .child in the United States! A 5 y will be an injtiation, prize. compared- with $160 for every per-' (Coutinued on Pege Six) war rates. If he earns $1,500, his! NEW YORK, May 17. — Closing quotation of Anaconda today is 26%, IN ACTION Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 8, General Motors | 37%, Kennecott 35%, New York Cen- | tral 12%, United States Steel 527, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials, 116.11; rails, 27.82; utilities, 17.22. ———ee - Boston has the oldest subway system in the United States, NEW YORK, May 17—A British ;radlu broadcast picked up here |says it is learned that the son of | Field Marshal Werner von Blom+ | berg has been “killed in action in |Iraq.” He was a member of the German Air Mission to Iraq. The | funeral services were held in Bagh- | dad. e e Major League baseball lures about 10,000,000, spectators a year,