The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1942, Page 1

| | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIX., NO. 9143. ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1942 _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS "PRICE TEN CENTS ¥ STALINGRAD RESISTS SEGE OF GERMANS MUNICH IS SET AFIRE BY BOMBERS RAF Make;_l)aring Raid, Leaves Broad Sections of Industrial City Ablaze LONDON, Sept. 21.—Broad sec- tions of Munich, the birthplace of the Nazi Party and location of im- portant German war industries, lay devastated today under the weight of a smashing RAF attack. Returning pilots said they touched | off fires so vast that the flames | could be seen 100 miles away. | Details of the big assault were| unfolded last night after the Air| Ministry analyzed reports of the crews of the bombers who winged | their way homeward after a dawn| attack Sunday in a daring 1300 mile round trip foray, the eleventh mgh:; raid on Germany this month. ‘The attack was accompanied by | another raid of the bombed Sai industrial region in western Ger- many. The British report the loss of 10 planes in the night attacks. e CANADIAN DESTROYER TORPEDOED Commander, Four Other| Officers, 107 Men Are | Believed Killed | OTTAWA, Sept. 21.—The Canad- | ian destroyer Ottawa has been tor- | pedoed and sunk and her command- | er, four other officers and 107 men’ are missing and- believed to have | ‘WeHaven'tFelt Pinch Yet, KANSAS CITY, Sept..21.—Donald M. Nelson, War Production Board Administrator, issued a warning to- !day to this country that the nation must accept a “very much lower standard of living” in order to win the present war. Nelson asserted: “We have hardly | | begun to feel the pinch so far. We are going to feel it very acutely | before we are a year older.” Nelson made the statements in an address before the American Le- gian National Convention and said further: e o his cheering co-workers, “I'm s: official U. S. been killed. The announcement was made to- day by Navy Minister McDonald but | no other particulars were given. i New | | BY JOHN GROVER T o | (For Jack Stinnett, On Vacation) iroi i ind| WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—It's six T"pl'l Cha”englng A“‘ed‘momhs since the House began to i write the new tax and revenue bill, Powecr n Hu"' 'or |and it's still “fluid,” with even the onv |experts unsure what final form it | oys |will take. Associa P It's been a powerful headache to | ok pi ) everybody concerned. The Treasury | Germany’s mightiest battleship, | has repeatedly changed its recom- the Tirpitz, sistership of the sunken |mendations on the revenue needed Bismarck 1§ ‘reported fo have left and the proper means of achieving| lh; ShEI::: Offnxmdhe‘lm fiorg |that income. Electioneering, ad- uBaer’. oo s A fl:’:"p lanes and | ministration “sacred cow” policies, ‘lfhchallelllz(:l‘vger inea hu?xt‘f';d :};}’; pressure groups and wartime nec- c‘;nv“;“"“c;’”ymg et 4 1ed lessity have all left thelr imprint on the hi‘mrdous Arctic route to Mur- the fiscal hodge-podge the House mansk. |finally turned over to the Senate g |for re-drafting. [ I um It was on March 3 that Secretary lof the Treasury Morgenthau said the Treasury judged $7,600,000,000 of the new revenue would be about s S e 8 right, to bring the federal income to $26,000,000,000 as asked by Presi- dent Roosevelt in his January mes- | On May 17, the Treasury changed |its mind and asked for $8,700,000,000 in new revenue, with the sugges- WASHINGTON, Sept. 21"Pr&5l“ytion that minimum exemptions on ?:n"nkor?el"li‘:]!';ewgwaz 3;:?1:““:&‘:::|‘personal income tax be cut to $600 hundred and thirtysone million dol- *;‘fm;:'m A Niee and marisl tment, in- e 'S.fnfférs% e ing mer. | Since then, the tax bill has been chant ships. \Kicked around. Swatting the rich, The largest item in the request for corporations and persons alike, and the Navy is $960,000000 for the pious horror at mention of a sales u of Aeronautics. tax have been basic financial tenets Bureau of ui ring Night A Any Buf There Is One That's Coming “It is my opinion we are going to have to cut further and more deeply into our civilian economy, even as the British themselves have done vet, with the single exception of food “We are going to have enough to eat throughout this war. We probably will not have to put any very drastic limitations in our range of choice in that regard, but in almost every other respect we are going to do without and do without until this war is won.” Hedy Shares Worker’s Lfinch During a luneh hour tour of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, glamorous Hedy Lamarr was offered a bite at a two-inch thick sandwich by ship- fitter Richard Spencer. She opened her mouth wide and, to the amaze- ment of her audience, bit off & chunk that would have done justice to a riveter. Spencer then put the sandwich back in the paper and announced aving it for posterity,” This is a0 Navy photo. Tax, Revenue Bill eadache fo All Engaged in Makeup of administration stalwarts for ten years. However, faced with un- precedented war expenditures, al- most runaway national income and the very real spectre of inflation, some hard-heads have challenged the validity of the fiscal planks that made history in peace times. So far, the legislative wizards compounding the potion we’'ll all have to swallow have managed to steer clear of a sales tax. The issue is by no means dead, how- ever. A mighty hopeful evidence of forethought is the careful and really statesmanlike consideration given to preventing financial col- lapse after the war. All the bills have contained provisions for re- bates of excess profits taxes paid by corporations, provided the re- bates are used to prevent unem- ployment. Otherwise, anything can happen. Sales tax, withholding tax, even greater reduction of personal in- come tax exemptions and higher rates, increased rebates for post- war habilitation —all these are possi es by the time the Senate completes its onerous chore. It’'s estimated it will take the Finance Committee two weeks to wade through the house bill, with its 3,600 pages of attached tran- scripts of hearings, and that it will be at least another month before the revised measure reaches the floor. LEGION T0 ~ ADMITTHIS WAR'S MEN American Veterans’ Group Elects Tennessee Man Commander at Meet KANSAS CITY, Sept. 21.—Roane Waring, of Memphis, Tenn., was to- day elected National Commander of the American Legion by unanimous vote. The Legion also voted to ask Congress to lower the draft age to 18 years and to conscript manpower for war production. It also urged Congress to pass legislation calling for compulsor; military training after the war, and that every youth be required to have at least one year of training before he has reached the age of 22 Yesterday, the Legion voted to open its membership to men fight- ing in the second World War and to ask the United States Congress to amend its charter so this can be done. OREGON HAS | RIOTOVER !} PATRIOTISM Klamath Falls Crowd Beals Up Jehovah's Witness- ‘ es in Mob Scene | KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Sept. 21 A patriotism riot against mem- bers of a religious sect left a mul- | titude of black eyes and tender noses in Klamath Falls this week- | end. Townspeople were irked for the last three days at pamphleteering | of the 400 convention delegates of | Jehovah’s Witnesess. The sect re- | fuses on religious grounds to salute the flag. | Townspeople surrounded the Wit- | nesses’ convention building yester- day and set up a War Bond booth, calling on the Witnesses to make | purchases. The sound equipment blared pa- triotic music, but none of the sect members responded. Small at first, the crowd grew to about a thousand A rock was thrown at the build- ing, the windows were shattered and stink bombs and rotten eggs | followed. Part of the crowd rushed the en- trance and sect members met them with sticks. After a 15-minute battle, the| crowd retreated. Injuries were num- | erous on both sides, but nothing | serious was reported. The delegates | left town soon after. " Tires, Tubes ~ Rationed in | ~ Week Here ing Board announces the followin: articles rationed during the week| of Sept. 14 to Sept. 19: | U. 8. Customs Car, 2 tires tubes; Hildre & Son, 2 truck ti H 2 truck tubes; Lloyd Reid, 1 truck S tire, 1 truck tube; W. J. Manthey,|® 4 truck tires; M. P. Munter Co., 2 truck tires, ;2 truck tubes; John _ B. Peterson, Gustavus, 1 bicycle i‘ All tires and tubes issued tof trucks were for defense construc- HOONAH GIRL DIE! tion. " T s | ! FLY TO U. OF W. | from Anchorage to attend the Uni- versity of Washnigton. Russians Appreciaie |ALASKA COASTAL | "Alaskn Coastal Airlines yesterday | The local War Price and Ration-|Were Pauline Neely, J. Brumbaugh, g Ralph Wilcoxin, Amy Montgomery, Ed Barbour, 2,and W. L. Burch. Nurses’ Street During Carolina Maneuvers This double oW of tents housed the registered nurses now in training to become officers, during maneuvers somewhere in the Carolinas. The nurses, shown hanging out part of their wash, cared for more than five bundred soldier-patients a week during the training exercises, _ Hete’s the Tinless Tin Can ]HIGH NAZI ~ ISKILLED ‘Commander of First Ger- man Tank Army Victim in Caucasus Fight MOSCOW, Sept. 21.—The Russian High Command officially announced Sunday that Field Marshal von Kleist, 61, Commander of the First German Tank Army, was killed in fighting in the Mozdok region of the Caucasus. He was comhmander of the Ger- |man forces that captured Rostov the first of last November and lost the cily to the Russians a week later. .- ITALIAN IN BRAZIL TAKEN INSPYRING ‘High Airline Official Ar- rested for Giving Infor- mation on Movements RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. .—Po- lice announced today that Italian Count Dirobinlant has been arrested and confessed that he provided information for transmission to | MOSCcOWw, Sept. 21.—Wendell L. Rome concerning the _passage | Willkie, personal representative of through Rio some time ago of the | President Roosevelt, has arrived British transport Queen Mary. M A K Es s"KA | here and in an interview with Am- | The Count is a high official of the HIGHIS SUNDAVH ican correspondents ceclared that Italians’ Lati Airline. He was taken nowhere has he found the Russians into custody along with several L with any “idea of quitting.” other persons. Police said these Leaving here for willkie came here as the bearer of arrests broke up a major Italian 1 written message from the Presi- [espionage ring dent " The announcement said the Count Wwillkie said the Russians appre- |was instrumental in mounting a ciated the aid received from the |radio transmitter which passed se- United States and Great Britain | but “didn’t think our aid is enough.” | he provided data concerning mater- _Willkie also said the Russians|ial and ships coming from the Chairman of the special Senate committee on utilization of farm crops, Senator Guy M. Gillette (right) of Iowa, is shown the new tinless tin can “grown” on the farm, range and forest by Raymond 8, MacMillan, president of the MacMillan Petroleum Corp., Los Angeles, who is using the all-fibre, plastic lined container to package lubricating oils. The inventor of the tinless tin can, Albert Robbins, predicts the extensive use of his process for packaging foodstuffs, T'his is a phonephoto, AidfromUS.; Asking Now for Second Front Sitka with Henry Moy, Claude L. V. Tate odes, M. Rushton, Passengers arriving here from _ WAR CHIEF cret information to Rome and that | belle Edwards, Ida Soberg, William | Karki, Lloyd Pederson and Fred| 2 girl, died last midnight in St . Pat and Jim Abercrombie, 20 and | Hospital here. According to an- 18 years old, recently flew south nouncement made this afternoon at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, the One will body is being shipped to Hoonah by study denitsry, the other medicine. Private boat for burial there. think the second front is the “kind itka were D. W. Stewart, C. J of aid they are entitled to and the ollingan, J. L. McNamara, Anna- | a symbol to them.” berg, | Willkie said he hoped to have a ¢ | long straight forward | Josef Stalin because “I understand |he is a man that likes frankness and I like frankness, too.” willkie arrived yesterday, arose at 6 a.n. and spent the first morning in the Russian capital city walking the streets before breakfast. He encountered columns of Russfans on their way to werk and declared he was asked some 50 times, “How |about the second front?" - - IN HOSPITAL HERE Martha James, 16, native Hoonah Ann’s eocnd front has become almost like | talk with | United States to a big Brazilian | steel mill - eee ! A. B. CAIN RETURNS 1 A. B. Cain has returned to Juneau after several weeks spent to the Westward. He says Seward is com- |ing right back from the fire of several months ago and business establishments are now housed in | new buildings. — e OPEN TRADING STORE The Northern Commercial Com- pany has opened a trading store at | Gulkana with H. L. Bernier and | Nels Petrson in charge. e ttact Made on Big Nazi Cit DESPERATE RED ARMY - FIGHTS ON 'Severest of Battling Con- tinues in Shell, Bomb- torn Wreckage of City | | Nk | (By Associated Press) In a siege which will stand be- | side that of Sevastopol in history’s |annals, the Red Army continues to fight on desperately at Stalingrad, amid the shell and bomb-torn wreckage. They stsmmed a Nazi onrush for the fourth’ consecutive day, in some | places hurling the Germans back by the fury .of its counter-attacks. Despite the disadvantageous posi- |tion of the defenders, with thelr |backs to the Volga River, the out- come still cannot be foreseen, as street by street and house by house, |a battle of the same sort that :saved Moscow and Leningrad last (fall and early winter rages. | Isolated Bevastopol fell in twen- |ty-seven days and Stalingrad is now in its twenty-eighth day of resisting the battering tanks and |guns, and a ruinous rain of bombs, German long range artillery has |taken over the work of destruction and shaking the shell-fire-pocked city. from -end to end ‘over the | week-end, In a thundering barrage which ali but drowned out the clatter of rifle and machinegun fire. | Troops are locked at close quart- jers, fighting in the streets of the | suburbs. BATILE UNIT OF JAPANESE FLEET FLEES Attemps Penetration of SolomonsBut Retires Before Fortresses WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. — 'The | Japanese battle force, penetrating |off the Solomons, was bombed by Army Flying Fortresses early last ‘we(—k, the Navy Department an- | | nounced Saturday evening. Two battleships are reported pos- sibly to have been hit before the enemy retired. ARMY TAKES ALL AIRMAIL SPACE ' COMING T0 NORTH flast Air Ship—mem for Civ- | ilians Arrived Here Week Ago ‘ o4 | Postmaster Albert Wile announced today, in respomse to many queries, that no airmail other than official has been received here from the States for a week. He said that the reason is that incoming planes ‘have their space taken up by of- ficial mail for Alaska. The War and Navy Departments have control over the transporta- |tion of all airmail to all overseas destinatiors, and an official an- nouncement from the Postmaster General states that reports show that existing facilities are not able to handle the transportation of all airmail overseas. An order dated September 4 said that the following order of pref- erence would be given to all air- mail going out of the States as follows: 1-—official airmail, 2—V- |mail (to soldiers), 3—other letter mail not over 2 ounces in weight. The order further states, how- ever, that temporarily, ithdoes not | (Continued on Page Three) 3