The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 9, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LX., NO. 9286. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1943 'MEMBE R ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = RUSSIANS IN DRIVE TOWARD BLACK SE Jap Bombers Make Attack, Sink Allie NIPPON AIR STRENGTH IS ON INCREASE Official WarEIg Is Given that Enemy Growing in | Power in Solomons | Vidims:of Inferior Plane Crash Sighfed Alive, Hitting Trail FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 9— Pilot Donald McLennan and Flight Mechanic Frederick Moller, whose plane, bound from Nome to Fair- banks, crashed in the headwaters of the Nulato River February 28, were found Sunday afternoon, |March 7, 80 miles from the scene‘ of the wreck. ‘ McLennon and Moller were walk- | ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, March 9.—A strong force of Jap bombers sank a small Allied merchantman in Oro Bay, New Guinea and this emphasizes an official warning that the Jap airpower is growing in the south- west Pacific. Nine bombers escorted by 13 Ze- ros swept over Oro Bay, south of Buna, in broad daylight, to sink the Allied cargo ship, the spokesman | for Gen. Douglas MacArthur said. “Japanese airpower in this area | is certainly not on the wane,” the g e : T0 AID SERVICE MEN IN FIELDS The Washington More Recreation Facilities Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) Tells How First BUY WAR BONDS Planned-Tom Hoag- | land Coming - * [ SEATTLE, March 9—Men of the ,. armed forces on duty in Alaska, H O LLY WO OD.—Hollywood's yestern Canada and along the Al- Gregory Ratoff called on Soviet ., Highway will get more Ambassador Litvinoff the other day | tional facilities as rapidly in connection with a film on Rus- ' Government can provide recrea- as the them, img toward a construction camp on ! night. Shaktolik River when seen by a search plane. They still had emerg- ency rations consisting of tea, boullon cubes and chocolate bars McLellan was slightly bruised by the crash, but Moller was not hurt The plane is a total wreck. The two airmen were brought to Fairbanks by plane last Sunday 0'rder} Alaska Spruce, Finally Delivergd,PugeI Sound By JACK STINNETT (Second of Two Articles) WASHINGTON, March 9—When U. S. Forest Service officials got their order to deliver 1,000,000 board feet of Alaska spruce logs to the sawmills of northern Wash- ington and had gone through the rigamarole of government financ- ing, the logging season was under way and the shortages of manpower and machineray well established Nevertheless, by last fall donkey engines, logging gear, hoists. trucks, tractors, cables, camp equipment and men were beating ‘heir way up the inside passage wo the dockless, tidal shores of these islands in the amazing Alaskan peninsula. To compound the confusion of all concerned in the effort, this or- dinarily mild-winter section of Al- BIG FORCE MEN, PLAN NEW INCOME 1S ANNOUNCED | ~ If's Mail from Home - OF ARMED TAXPROPOSAL js Means Further Redudion3SortofPay-és§You-GoSys-3 of Many Things—Col. Ginsburgh Talks . fem Outlined-20 Per ! Cent Deduction NEW YORK, March 9.—Col| wASHINGTON, March 9. — The Robert Ginsburgh, Aide to Under|gouse Ways and Means Committee Secretary of War Robert P. Pat-|today approved tentatively a source terson, said the armed forces of|of collection of income taxes which 10,800,000 to be reached by the eud}]S a feature of the paj you-go of 1944 will mean further rcduc-]‘sys‘“m including a 20 percent tion in the output of things other|yithholding levy against the tax- than for war and war WOrkers. |aple portion of the pay envelopes This total, including the Navyi{and salary checks. ‘we can reach without destroying| ynder the plan, tentatively ap- our economy,” said Ginsburgh iproved, all taxpay must file Col. Ginsburgh said the United |gheir 1942 returns, paying the first States has 1500000 men already |jngtaliment on March 15 and the overseas and he estimated the Eu- fgecong installment on June 15. ropean Axis strength at 13‘000.000.} After July 1 the system will pro- “Our plan is to give every sol-|yije dier one ycar's training befare| e wage and salary earners sending him overseas. We plan t0lwyr pave a withholding levy of send millions in 1944 and they|yg percent, wovering both income must be trained in 1943 conclud- fgqq victory taxes, on the taxable ed Col. Ginsburgh. 'portion of their pay envelopes or - | Wallacels Gloomy;3rd World War Vice- President Wants Quick Understanding Imonthly or monthly deductions. These collections will not be an ad- | ditional tax but will be applied to |actual taxes computed‘at the yea end 'at statutory rates or exemp. tions. Wage and salary earners must file income tax returns each March 15 as usual Two--Men in the armed es, domestic servants and agricultural labor will’ be exempted with the withholding levy of 20 percent. MORE TAX DOINGS WASHINGTON, March 9 — Two compromise proposals for the Ruml salary checks through weekly, semi- | . One of the nurses sent from the United States to the new American war base in Eritrea reads a letter from home. She is Miss Patricia Mullally, former American Airline hostess. Note the hospital and Red | Cross flag in background. Only 74 Plants Are o PackSalmonin Alaska This Year:Ickes' Orders d Ship RED ARMY LASHES OUT, WIDE FRONT |Have Rea{t;;_-t Dneiper River Northwest of Im- portant German Base (By Associated Press) The Russian Red Army, driving west out of recaptured Sychevka, on the central front, west of Mos- cow, has reached the Dneiper Riv- er northwest of the important Ger- man base of Vyazma, it is disclosed in a dispatch received by the Prav- da. This sector, it is pointed out, is where the Russians are pressing the hardest and the Germans are giving them no respite in the drive to the waterway which extends from the central front down through the Ukraine, past Kiev and Neiperotetrovsk to the Black Sea. The Russians today are already east and northeast of Vyazma after advancing through Czhatsk. ‘The German communique, picked up by the Associated Press, said | the German attack in the Kharkov |area is still making progress but | the Russians declared . they are |clearing out the enemy and secur- ing more, lines of communication, asserting tH陓winter battle in the. east continues with unabated ! strength.” The Russians claim further that | towns including Valki, 30 miles west of Kharkov, and Lyubotin, 15 | miles west of Kharkov have been taken by storm, The offensive has | now lashed west and southwest from Sychevka. WANTS RUSSIANS sia which he is directing. Ratoff Tom Hoagland said today. complained that he had hoped to get Robert Taylor to play Hoagland is Field Representative the of the United States Defense Health | leading role in' the picture, but and Welfare Service, and he is Taylor was now in the Navy. leavipg for Prince Rupert at the “I don’'t understand this coun- 'first moment transportation is avail- ‘ try,” observed Litvinoff. “You take able. From there he will go north-! the men who can do most for Ward, how far he does not know,| |aska had the most bitter cold and vicious storms this year in the memory of the oldest living in- habitant. One tragedy will illustrate the hundreds that hampered the work. The Forest Service men in charge morale and send them off to shoot |but on this trip he will cover allihad dodged priorities sufficiently to a rifle. In my country we exempt leading actors from military ser- vice.” Whereupon the Russian Ambas- sador picked up the phone, called | War Information Chief Elmer Davis. Davis, in turn, telephoned Secretary of the Navy Knox, who readily released Robert Taylor for the Russian picture. This has brought to the front| cgain the whole question of Holly- Southeast Alaska, visit cities and outposts and depending upon con-} ditions and ttransportation may even ' The problem of recreational build- | ings and facilities is acute plus.| transportation - of labor and sup- plies. Where the Army and Navy! are meeting the needs we will co-| operate, otherwise, it is our respon-| sibility, Hoagland said. get a much-needed 32,700 pound tractor (the largest made—with a drawbar pull of 20,000 pounds). !work out onto the Aleutian chain.|Loaded on a barge, it was being towed to Ketchikan. In a blinding snow-storm in Clarence Strait, the i Then there are the problems " ofitug almost ran on the rocks, sheer- ed off, but the barge grazed the reef, and went adrift. The tug put about, barge listing badly. In found fthe spite of 3 |Paul Bunyanesque efforts of the, ‘The work is being done at the|tugmen, working waist-deep in icy! wood draft deferments. In the last |request of the Special Services De-|water, ‘the barge keeled over and| war, key actors were deferred on | thé ground that they were impor- tant for morale. Britain formerly called .up movie actors, but has| dow. realized its mistake and has decided to defer them. In the United States, a start was made toward deferment, there was a cer- i amount of public resentment, | sral actors volunteered, and the thing has been in a jumble since. ¥ is that the Army has a| hafdful of soldiers who turn the; t100ps into autograph seekers, while the country is minus stars who| could do a great job for morale. At present, for instance, the Army doesn’'t want Mickey Rooney, first because he is too ghort, sec- ond because he would disrupt any Army camp. Everybody would be!War Athletic Council, he said, but were gaps of tumbling open ocean‘ watching him instead of the com- manding officer. Likewise .wnh] Clark Gable. President Roosevelt himself wrote Gable a letter ask- ing him not to enlist. Gable patrio- tically eniisted, however, and now is a bombardier. ‘Only trouble is‘ that a 43-year-old bombardier | doesn't have the quick reflexes of a younger man and might endan- ger the entire crew of the bomber. So the Army is up against what to do with patriot Clark Gable,and | unofficially, they think he could| do a better job entertaining troops via the screen in Hollywood. | ‘The movie industry would like to see the whole question decided one way or the other by the Govern- ment. cn there would be no IContinued on Page Pour) partment of the War Department, and carrfed on with Army and! Navy and civilian cooperation he| said. The Army will build the recrea-l, t{onal structures where possible. The slush, the giant raft was assembled | first job, Hoagland said, will be to'in Erna Bay. Into a rim or hulk o{]E determine what the needs are un-| der conditions as they exist in Al-, aska. In areas west of the 152nd meridian, where all civilians have been evacuated, there are spots| where there isn’t room for athletic fields, even if weather permitted.' In mahy camps there is crying need for recreation rooms and for ra-| dios and phonographs, for current| magazines and newspapers : games. Quantities of recreation material have been sent to Alaska through | the Civilian Recreation Bureau and more is needed. A recreation hall is under con- Mary of rafts might have made| struction at Sitka. The American splinters out of the little tug—or| Red Cross is transforming the American Legion hall at Kodiak. Buildings or rooms where men can letics and music, games, reading, {writing and comradeship are essen- 17 days tial. This is the job for which he is heading north. - >ee High tide—4:24 am. 174 feet. Low tide—10:42 am., -0.3 feet. High tide-—4:49 pm., 15.0 feet. Low tide—10:48 pm. 17 feet. ->-oe BUY WAR BONDS dumped the tractor into bottomless depths where it probably is resting today. In midwinter, after dragging t.he" huge spruce logs through mud and outer logs, linked with chains and “chokers,” the inner logs were dropped into “cradles” made of looped cables. Lashed down with wire rope, the raft was finally a solid mass, 150 feet long, 60 feet wide and 30 feet deep. Hitched to a sea-going tug, this raft started one of the strangest the inside - passage. There were some 1,000 miles of salt water ahead. There were channels no more than 100 yards wide. There where in one storm this Queen snapped its towlines and headed for Tokyo. Treacherous currents and hidden than & log’s width to spare. It was after its departure from Erna Bay that the tug tied up at the sawmill docks. 4 It's all over now. The gateway has been opened. And over in U. S. Forest Service, they say quite casually that as long as the United Nations need spruce for victory, we'll get it. .o | Charles O. Sabin, owner of Sa- !bin’s men’s shop, left Sunday for r short trip” to Seattle. with Russia DELAWARE, Ohio, March 9 — Vice-President Henry A. Wallace asserted that a third world war appears inevitable unless the w ern Democracies and Russia reach a satisfactory understanding before the present conflict ends. “We shall decide sometime in 1943 or 1944 whether we have plant- ed seeds for a World War Number 3" Wallace said in an address at the opening of the “Christian Bases of the World Order” at the Ohio Wesleyan University. The Vice-President said: “That war will be certain if we allow Rus- sia to reach her sphere either ma- terially or psychologically.” ALASKA COASTAL MAKES SCHEDULE, CHARTER FLIGHTS Passengers arriving here from xcursion Inlet with Alaska Coast- \al Airlines yesterday afternoon {were A. S. Baptista, Claude J. Burt, "A. V. Teshang, F. Fulgencio and | Fred Emerson. Arriving here from Ketchikan with Alaska Coastal Monday after- noon were Charles Sellers, Leonard |R. Hall and W. A, Erickson. A char- | ter flight to Taku Harbor was made | yesterday with Sven Olson as pasr and journeys in history. The route Was | senger. Taking passage with Alaska Coastal this afternoon to Sitka |were M. O. Lohmiller, Claude Rhodes, Richard Slagle, Francis Roach. In addition te passengers, mail and express were carried. Also scheduled for this afternoon |was a flight to Excursion Inlet. STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, March 9. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4, American Can |76%, Anaconda 28, Bethlehem Steel 163, Commonwealth and Southern | %, Curtiss Wright 8%, General |Motors 48%, International Har- | vester 65, Kennecott 32':, New York |Central 14%, Northern Pacific 107, |United States Steel 53%, Pound $4.04. | Dow, Jones averages today ar j@s follows: industrials 129.80, rails 3206, utilitie: 1741, |gather for lounging and fun, ath- reefs had to be skirted with less| income tax plan of skipping a year's income tax, which would have a- bated lesser amounts of the 1942 tax liability have been rejected by the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee. Rejection of the compromise proposals fails to break the existing deadlock on pay- as-you-go taxation. One proposal, introduced by Re- presentative A. Willis Robertson, would abate six percent of the nor- mal tax of those in the first br: et and thirteen percent of the su tax on the first $2,000 of the 1942 income of all tax payers. The second proposal, introduced by Chairman Robert L. Doughton, would apply the much softer 1941 rates on exemptions of the 1942 income, letting the taxpayers am- ortize the remaining 1942 obliga- ions over a relatively short period of time while simultaneously re- mitting on the taxes of the current vear Action of the Committee leaves in doubt future pay-as-you-go taxa- tion. Regardless of what action the Ways and Means Committee takes, it is certain that advocates of the Ruml plan to abate one year's tax- ation will carry the battle on the House floor. RAF BOMBERS HITTARGETSIN NIGHT ATTACK Western Germany Again Raided but with Dis- astrous Resuits LONDON, March 9 — A strong force. of RAF bombers attacked Nurenberg and other targets in Western Germany last night, the Air Ministry = announces. Seven bombers failed to return and one German plane was downed It is not made clear whether the score” is the result of new de- fensés against night raiders. - BUY WAR BONDS WASHINGTON, March 9-—Sec- | [ L] L] has ordered the canning of this | year's Alaska salmon to be by T4 [of the largest and most modern plants instead of 120 plants pre- | viously used. Ickes, acting in the role of Fish-| T0 BE TOLD THAT U. §. AIDS NATION AmbassadoTA_dm. Stand- BOMBERS HIT Anii-airtrail rEntounfered ‘ from Jap Positions, Navy Announces eries Coordinator, said the con- {centration is intended to help meet ythe problems of manpower and | equipment shortages caused by the | war Secretary Ickes said the order |was made necessary because the rmed forces have taken over a |large percentage of tenders and power scows used by the canning | industry in Alaska. | The Secretary predicted greater | ley Asks that True Facts Be Given | MOSCOW, March 9. — Admiral | William H. Standley, United States Ambassador, told a conference of |the newsmen, that he does not !believe the Russian people arebeing |told the complete story of Ameri- \can ald to Russia and noted the WASHINGTON, March 9— Am- efficiency will make it possible to lend-lease bill now before Con- erican bombers blas tions at Kiska, the Navy announces and also delivered minor raid: against four Jap bases in the Sol- omons area. The communique says that “on March 7, U. 8. heavy and medium tombers attacked Jap positions on Kiska and antiaircraft fire was en- countered but no enemy planes in-| tercepted. All U. S. planes return- ed.” | .. — 100 EARLY T0 TALK ATH TERM SAYS MRS. FOR WASHINGTON, March 9 — Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, asserting “it is too soon to begin to think about a fourth term.” said further “We may all be dead two years from now. It is foolish to hurt the general effort by bringing ‘up a question nobod, knows about now.” PRACTICE ALERT THURSDAY NIGHT IS ANNOUNCED There will be a practice Alert Thursday night at 7:15 o'clock ac- cording to an announcement made this afternoon by R. E. Robertson, Civilian Defense Director. More particulars will be given tomorrow. | 00 cases. Last year the pack was 5,300,000 cases. + Secretary Ickes has named Ralph |Ferrandini to administer the con- entration order and his headquart- ers will be at Seattle. The 74 canning plants to operate this season are not named. R KETCHIKAN CAGERS ARRIVE IN JUNEAU | [ | The twelve-man squad of Ket- ;rhxkun's championship-quality bas- |ketball quintet arrived in Juneau late this afternoon on the fishing 'boat Theo, School Supterintendent |A. B. Phillips states. | The |of the guest team makes the find- ing of accommodating homes im- perative, as so far only nine homes have been found. Due to present war there will be no coming up for conditions rooting section the three-game unexpectedly early arrival | ed Jap posi-|increase the pack this year to 5500,- £IesS. Admiral Standley added: “The |American Congress_is big-hearted land generous but if the Russians |are given the impression their help |is nothing, there might be a dif- ferent story if the truth is given.” Admiral Standley attributed the situation to the Russian Govern- :ment which is letting the people {feel as if they are pulling them- |selves up by their own bootstraps. SPOKE OUT OF TURN | WASHINGTON, March 9.—Under |Becretary of State Sumner Welles said Admiral Standley’s statement in Moscow saying the Russian peo- ple were not completely informed on the American lend-lease aid to the Soviets was without prior con- sultation with the Government in | Washington. Welles said he has asked Stand- ley for a text of his remarks made to the newsmen but no reply has been received yet. Welles said until the requested text is at hand, he prefers to make no comment in any detail. -e series, scheduled for Thursday, Fri- | day and Saturday of this week D THOMAS L. ALLI ON BUSINESS TRIP Thomas L. Allen, manager of Piggly Wiggly, left Sunday for a <hort business trip to the States. He plans to return to Juneau as soon as possible after conducting businesse - BUY WAR BONDS BUY WAR BONDS ® e 0o 0 0 0 o 0 0 DIMOUT TIMES Dimout begins tonight at sunset at 6:46 o'clock. Dimout ends tomorrow at sunrise at 7:30 am. e Dimout begins Wednesday ® at sunset at 6:48 p.m. oo 00 0000000 L . . . . . .