The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1943, Page 3

LEW AYRES LIONEL BARRYMORE ANN AYARS M-G-M Picture ALSO PICTURE PEOPLE SO YOU KNOW MUSIC LATEST NEWS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— VERONICA LAKE, " JOEL McCREA IN KILDARE FILM IS TRUE BILL FOR HOSPITAL Lew Ayres, Ann Ayars and Comedy Duo Appears at| 20th Century Tonight in “Sullivan’s Travels” Lionel Barrymore Come Through, Capitol Show Continuing the perennially in- teresting lifelights of Dr. Kildar the current attraction, “Dr. Kil- dare’s Victory” is number nine in the medical series and now play- ing at the Capitol Theatre. Lew Ayres and Lionel Barrymore, as Drs. Kildare and Gillespie, grapple with new medical problems in this latest of the Kildare series. A young intern gets in trouble saving a life in a zone supposed to that of another hospital, and the two doctors, with the aid of a debutante accident victim whose | life had been saved, finally save the day for the doctor and his sweetheart, a hospital nurse. “Sul suc: Paramount’s new comedy, livan's Travels,” the fourth comes to Preston Sturges, Demarest, Margaret Hayes, and Robert Greig. “Sullivans Travel roving adventures ew-ball director be of a about social problems, what it's like to be poor. engaged in this search for BIG LAUGH BILL: UNEAU ALASKA | STARTS TO | wews 7:30-9:30 cessive hit written and directed by the screen of the 20th Century Theatre tonight, starring Veronica Lake and featuring a strong supporting cast including Robert Warwick, William Porter Hall, Franklin Pangborn, Eric Blore s, concerns the slightly of Hollywood corthedies, who decides he wants to turn to directing gripping dramas| and goes out dressed as a tramp to find out ‘While expe- Waylal Jove -lonely ©! maids! FEATURE 8-10 NIGHT § \J0EL WHERE THE BETTER BIG PICTURES PLAY!? OrCENTURY A LARE S OF THE TAKE STARTS TONIGHT NEWS 7:30-9:30 - FEATURE 8-10 ...and when she takes Sullivan for a ride, boy- oboy, they really travel! i structive measures for a greater and |ience he meets a beautiful but un- better Alaska homeland in the days'lucky actress, who helps to teach of peace to come. him that he is wasting his greatest Against Sales Tax gift—the ability to bring laughter “Also, in-my previous message 1/into the world and happiness to made no referénce to a sales tax. PeOPIe I considered then and I consider| J0¢! McCrea plays the role of now that a sales tax, or indeed any | the eccentric director, and shape- form of consumption tax, is thor- !V honey-blonde Veronica Lake, oughly undesirable for Alaska. A Who leaped to prominence as the sales tax may have certain merits |Siren of “I Wanted Wings,” is seen in parts of the nation when and &S the girl who accompanies Sul- THEATRE ' THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! Governor's Complete Message, lggislalure (Continued from Page One) ’cost bonus, Several city schools, in | the more prosperous cities such as | Ketchikan, Juneau, Anchorage and Fairbanks, gave $200 to $300 in- creases. However, many of the small cities felt unable to afford to do this, and their teachers are still working under the 1937 salary scale | after all other well recognized and long established forms of taxation such as income taxes and property | taxes have been adopted. A sales| Ginty,” livan on his hilarious travels. Preston Sturges’ Christmas in July” |tax in Alaska would be particularly “The Lady Eve.” obnoxious and indefensible, because it would scarcely touch those who come up here for a brief season each | year merely to extract wealth from Important in War “The importance of this is the three previous comedy hits were “The Great Mc- and | does it again! | | ? | .Robert Warwick - William Demarest - Margaret Hayes Porter Hall - Franklin Panghorn - Eric Blore which is entirely too low. “A corresponding situation, al- though on a smaller scale, applies |Alaska and take it outside with ereater, not the less, because of them. The highly prosperous sea- war. For war, while inevitably pro- "sonnl workers from the 'States, in ducing changes, permits us in part to the nav of clerical employees in (the canneries or on the fishing to utilize, to control and to direct airitorial government of- |8rounds, or on the constructoin jobs, those changes for the common good. £l At the time they were adopt- | Whose wants are largely supplied The argument that local, state or ed and appropriated for, the wage for them, would pay next to nothing territorial government should be gories: elementary education, wel-| (0 S mestorial clerical, steno- |1 sales taxes. This tax would fall practically inoperative In wartime, fare of various types, and the oo ang secretarial employees |almost wholly on the genuine ‘Al- and that instead we should abdicate Pioneers'’ Home. The support of | gere yundoubtedly adequate, but they [askans, the people who live here to the federal government, is a schools, for which $1438,000 is|gre g0 no longer. |all the year around, those who have negation of the very essence of asked, represents about a third of | o onneion T desire to call |their homes here and want to stay democracy. | the total Territorial budget your attention {0 two- statiites, |here. They are already struggling “This is a time for greatness. The | Balance | CHapters 41 and 51 of the 1935 Ses. | 16ainst a high cost of living which ment on our fighting fronts are “The balance of the more t!mn':slon Laws, which aggravate this-* e tax“wouyld mr'.Aher 1groaes. ;:]vl:d :;'%(\’lnntroe xgssli;veuou; ctguntr}.' thee-fifths—the $1,041600 request- | problem. Chapter 41 forbids any | .. gon°+ :c d?t:“ ;:“ Gt bkl LR ol .po’me sh!;r;e (vsol:’n):r cu:‘cndb?;znz;lzg 3(o;r b;’uk:i:fi {employee of the Territory or of any Iten you what might have been. Two of things to come will in no small Pioneers' Home, totalling $1,345,930 |$200 a month, to engage in any in other types of work. “On the other hand, it should be pointed out thuc over three-fifths of the territorial bul- get of $4,385,499 submitted for you consideration goes for three cae- haw-ver, DOORS OPEN 12:00 P. M. Written and Directed by Preston Sturges - A Paramount Picture OWL SHow TONIGHI 'sngv;vus:.;rs : WORLD EVENTS ALWAYS 2 EDITIONS LATEST " S10CK OUOTATIONS | "TRAP LINES' AUTHOR o vonc s mme s | TRAP LINES | 15 vismn sumeav b J Verenica hits the jecksol! market turned downward today in FROM “(uns‘o" I“.:‘ the wake of the announcement | of the North African war confer- \. municipality, whose average salary is |years ago the Territory was at'its measwre flow from your actions all- s dur the next two months. —is for assistance to aged residents | additional employment. While most ill-time apex of prosperity. Gold during of the Territory living at home or|school teachers’ salaries fall under fithe Ploneers’ Home, for the care |the $200 a month salary, some, in- | of crippled children, for children |cluding principals and superintend- who are wards of the Board of ents, who earn a little more, are Children’s Guardians and for de- by that law prevented from adding pendent children. |to their earnings by work after “In my judgment, it is not pos- hours or over weekends. Chapter sible to make any substantial re. |5l similarly forbids the employ- duction in these three categories, TICAY Of @ husbund ?;\fl:“il:fihe: although the determination as 8 beesainnin e vice. Wi that of course rests with the Leg- month in government service. ar islature : s "8~ |has created a great shortage here y | of workers in every field, and these “On the contrary, a situation has!iwo laws, Whatevg may have been ;'"f:: :;:n;mzso C:;‘];‘ef“"" uwmct:e it | their value when they were adopted, Iy 4 0 your atten-|are now tying the Territorial gov- tion. Our primary and secondary | ernment’s hands and intensifying its had reached the unprecedented fig- Welghty as your responsibility is, it ure; of $26,000,000. Salmon was nor- . is also inspiring as an opportunity. mal. The greatest construction pro- I wish you all success arid I assu gram for any part of the United you of all cooperation in my power States was under way, bringing into to extend.” [the Territory. tens of millions of dollars, which in turn spréad out ' {to pass through the tills of mer- chants, motion picture houses, banks, | restaurants, liquor stores, to every ‘trade and profession. No part of this, under our rigid and anti- |quated tax system, went into the| Territorial treasury. And the reve- nues that might have been secured ' would have more than solved all| s |the Territory’s fiscal problems for | First case scheduled oh the cal- the duration. iendar of the U. S. District Court, - A. J. MARTIN TRIAL BEGINS THIS MORNING ence. There was profit cashing on recent, advances and this account- ed for.much of the selling, brok- ers sald. There was also a display. lof disappointment over the lack {of more immediate tangible results of the Casablanca meeting. Trans- fers were about 900,000 shares. | Alaska Juneau mine stock closed ‘t.oday at 4%, American Can 78%, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem - Steel %, Commonwealth and South- ern 15/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, In- ternational Harvester 59, Kenhe- cott 20%, New York Central 11%, Northern Pacific 7%, United States Steel 49%, Pound $4.04. Y HENRY PEARSON | | One thing that is hard to vis- |ualize these days is the tremen- | dous suffering going on as a result of the Government’s decision to prevent the further manufacture of Zoot Suits, | “ I mean the kind with the great lpleat, | If you still don’t know what a |Zoot Suit is, it's a suit made es- |pecially for rug-cutters and jivers. Henry Pearson, who has been 20003 = contributing “Trap Lines” to thel‘ 'Guuwn ‘“" Empire for the ‘last few weeks, isi§ - 1 e S |in town from Excursion Inlet where: /he is employed in the office and |~ |also in charge of photographic work | hopes to gather sufficient mater! for the contracting company. to write his first novel while l} Pearson halls from Everett, Wash- | Alaska. ‘. ington, and has contributed to the | “Working fowteen and fif I‘Alhnxmn Times, Stanwood TWID| pouve o day as we are over .“;t :Clly News and other small town cursion doesn’t leave much | newspapers of the State of Wash-‘(Qr writing, but I.am getting ,Inglun. “I like the small country of ‘expcrlen'ce " young_ Peapson papers and towns, ' particularly Pearson exbecu to retufn “ : those with about 500 population,” camp as soon &s transportation ‘he said. 4 available. | With several short stories, | various sports for background, and educational system faces a serious difficulties. Dow, Jones averages today are | You get into the trousers with | contributions to a number of trade crisis, the extent of which is re- vealed by the tremendous and in- | creasing turnover of teachers in the last two or three years—which has reached a new all time high in the current year. In the city schools there has been a turnover of 48 percent. In the rural schools, the turnover has been 35 percent. For all schools, the turnover aver- aged 444 percent. A few of the younger men teachers have left to enter the armed forces, but the majority who have given up teach- ing in the Alaska school system have done. so to accept positions that offered both more pay and more security. Since Alaska offers no security for the teachers’ fu- ture—neither pension plan nor re- tirement plan—it is hardly. sur- prising that so many teachers have gone elsewhere. They would un- doubtedly prefer to adhere to their chosen profession, in which they have been trained and to which they have given many years of de- voted service, were it made pos- sible for them to remain. However, they find that they, the teachers to whom we entrust our children, they to whom we entrust the mold- ing of the future citizens of our democracy, are almost at the bot- tom of the scale of remuneration, now receiving less than unskilled laborers. Apart from the much higher scale of wages paid in other occupations which have drawn away most of these teach-' ers, a comparison of teachers’ sal- aries weighted in relation to the higher cost of living.in Alaska (in other words the teachers’. ‘real wages’) shows that Alaskan teach- ers are underpaid. Teachers’ Salaries “A minimum salary schedule for teachers was established by the Ter- ritorial Legislature in 1937 as fol- lows: First Division $1800, Third Di- vision $1980, Second and Fourth Di- | visions $2100. In the rural schools, and in most of the city schools, that minimum has become the maximum. During the current school year, in an effort to meet the ecrisis, the Commissioner of Education (utiliz- ing funds allocated for building and repairs which could not be expended because the materials could not be secured, and also funds from a few | rural schools which were closed) gave all rural teachers a $200 living “Need Tax Reform” “If the Legislature after con- sideration of all phases of the sit- uation decides that new sources of revenue must be uncovered, the method by which these are to be found is a problem for the Leg- islature to solve. In my message two years ago to the Fifteenth Legislature, I went comprehensively into the whole matter of territorial taxes. I do not wish to take your time by repeating my views. I felt then, and I feel now, that the pro- gram proposed was thoroughly sound and desirable. Not only has my view not changed, but I feel that the situation that has de- veloped in the past two years has increasingly justified my crmclsmf of our existing ‘tax patchwork and | my conviction that tax reform is the first step toward Territorial prog- ress. If any of the ten new mem- bers of the present Legislature are interested, copies of that message are available. “I have one additional comment concerning the general property tax “Now two years have passed. Gold has folded up, although we still have the tax revenue from a some- what reduced gold ' production of last year. Salmon packing is cur- tailed. We are probably midway in our great construction program-— tens of millions have been spent in |these two years, gone for tax pur- poses beyond recovery. But still {more millions will be spent in the next year and probably within the next two years. And these millions have built up high wages and more !employment and. more prosperity among the wage earners than ever | before in the history of Alaska. Tha {economic sitation of the Territory, though not quite so good 'in pros- ! pect as two years ago, is in actuality still very good. “Two years hence, when the Leg- |islature meets again, there will be no income from gold from the pre- | ceding year; gold revenue will be a ! memory. * The salmon industry will | probably remain curtailed as now. {The last echoes of hammering on ‘the construction program too will ihave faded out. The outside con- which I proposed in my last mes- |tractors will have returned to the sage, a tax designed to add no bur- |States, and so will thelr workers. den whatsoever to present taxpayers | The high scale of wages which has in incorporated towns, but merely 'made everybody rich in the last two to reach those who have always |years will be no more. The ces- escaped this tax by building outside |sation of all production but of war of incorporated town limits. But necessities will have reduced the entirely - apart from the-.revenue- stocks of merchants to the barest 'that of the U. 8. vs Arthur J. Mar- tin, charged with larceny on a boat, began following the comple- tion of a petit jury panel in Court {this morning. “ Opening statements were made by respective council and a jury was completed this morning to try the case. James H. Sawyer, captain of the Bielby, on which the alleged larceny took place last November 8, took the stand as first witness for {the Government, and his examina- \tion by Assistant U. S. Attorney {P. J. Gilmore, Jr, was completed i before Court adjourned at noon to- ’dny. Examination of Capt. Sawyer by {Grover C. Winn, defense attorney, iwas to take place in court this af- ternoon. All jurors not serving on the Mar- tin case were excused until 10 o'clock Monday morning, by Judge George F. Alexander. ; Jurors serving on the Martin case are Mrs. Vergne Hoke, Mae Otteson Tubbs, Raymond Adam Hollingsworth, Geraldine Warden, Alex Kiloh, Mrs. Laurel McKechnie, John Torvinen, Robert G. Rice, 3flva Zenger, Sadie Cashen, Nell Kilburn and Mrs. George F. Shaw. i raising aspects of this tax and the elimination of the present unjust discrimination against city taxpay- ers, there is an important and time- ly reform element in this measure. | A nominal tax would bring back into use the patented mining and agri- cultural land, the owners of which | have disappeared. This land cannot inow be utilized and tends increas- ingly to paralyze progress and de- | velopment in Alaska. This is not a new idea, but it is even more pertinent now than previously be- cause after the war many of the soldiers now here, and others, will come back to live here. The Alcan |essentials. At Crossroads - “All these considerations face you now. Yours is a heavy responsibility {—heavier, perhaps, than has ever | before confronted an Alaskan leg- islative assembly. In a sense we as follows: industrials 124.05, rails 28.87, utilities 16.39. PRICES TUESDAY Alaska Juneau mine stock closed Tuesday at 4, American' Can 78, Anaconda 26'2, Bethlehem Steel 59'4, Commonwealth and Southern 13/30, Curtiss Wright 7%, Inter- national Harvester 59', Kenne- cott 29%, New York Central 11%, Northern Pacific 7 7/8, United States Steel 50, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages Tuesday were as follows: industrials 124.31, rails 29.04, utilities 16.06. gl The natives of South Africa fall into three main divisions, known respectively as Bushmen, Hotten- tots and Bantu. ————. Two hundred and fifty thousand | (men of the British Navy are en- gaged upon the Atlantic Ocean. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY FOR RENT ‘B-RQOM modern house, close in. Available Feb. 1. Phone red 330 a shoe horn and then fasten them laround your neck. If two people can get in the conl“ it is just right for one man. i | Bomeone hung up a Zoot Suit at a ballroom the other night and four girls danced with it before they, realized there was nothing in it. And as a rule, that's generally the | case—there’s ' nothing in them. | CHAMBER MEETS TOMORROW NOON At the regular meeting of .the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow noon at the Baranof, many of | the members attending the War Manpower conference here will be guests. Alaska Game Commission | members who failed to arrive at ilast week’s luncheon meeting will| also be guests tomorrow. | bl o O BUY DEFENSE BONDS — et —— ’@63 Calls An OW magazines to his credit, Pearson Retail Clerks Union MEETING Local 1392 AT WEDNESDAY - JANUARY 2TTH 7:30 P. M. A.F.of L. Hall are at the crossroads. What is done here in these next sixty days, or what is not done, will have an important bearing on the long-time future of the Territory. The three alternatives are plain. You can, first, cdrtail radically the operation |of your government even though ‘[such curtailments would greatly de- crease or suspend essential public et Q CROP WONSE, SHE EVEN WAD T0 CALL Q T WMESS SARGE OVER TH\S &\, SHOW HER HOW TO COOK LW | highway will bring in new settlers. | services . Or, second, yau can make While the boys in uniform are fight- | lesser reductions, such as those sug- |ing out at the fronts and risking ‘ gested by the Budget Board, and their, lives, those who stay behind | perhaps others, and trust that reve- |should be planning what may be | done to help reestablish the soldiers in civil life. This would be one aspect of setting our territorial house in order, and there are other such aspects. Vision and statesman- ship would suggest taking thought of the morrow and adopting con- nues will match apropriations. The third alternative would not aecept the plea that now is the time to do nothing, but would strike out on the path of practical cqmmon sense and vision to put our governmenal house in order at the earliest mo- ment. : i ¥, MOUR ERIEND, WSS CELE, \S GREEN ST RUNNWY SNWFFY - GG AL T \NGREJIENTS THROWNED W €P - \E JES' FERGT 1} SARGE TOU NE, CELE an' DO T M WEN - FUST NE \N A WANDELL O CHCWRY — Ay WO GALLONS 0" BILIN' WARTER - THEN § SPRINKLN' O 3 <o$see‘— év“a\wf mév\z%\sl TRSTY_ TAS-AWRY BUT (TS § 27 @ WeAP MORE SHUSFW 0 ' POCKET BOOK. -