The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1943 JAPSUB SUNK BY FO Soviets Continue Drive On Grea | Inleres!mg Question on RED ARMIES IN ADVANCE, NORTH FRONT In Kharkov Sector Russians Beat Off Violent German Attack (By Associated Press) Boviet dispatches this morning reported the Red Armies driving | toward the great German base at| Stholensk have swept the Nazis back from the whole eastern bank | of the Dneiper from the source down toward the Moscow-Smolensk railway and indicates the Russians are now in a position to strike the kéy tail town of Durovo. FISH TAX IS CRITICIZED BY GOVERNOR 'Bill Becomes Law Without Signature of Chief Executive The Governor informed the House | today that he has allowed the new | |war fish tax bill to become a law | | without his signature. The bill pro- lndes for an additional five cent iper case tax, regardless of species, |on all salmon packed in the Ter- |ritory and authors of the bill esti- ,msted it will bring in an additional | 1$500,000 during the next two years it will be in effect. The Governor stated in part: i \ ‘Dx'v |on behalf of the Governor and him- | Dr. Parrin Invifed fo Terrifory In order to further inform the federal health authorities about ! Alaska health conditions, Gov. Er- I nest Gruening and Commissioner |of Health Dr. W. W. Council, have| invited Dr. Thomas Parrin, Sur- geon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, to visit the Terri- tory. Accomponying the invitation and to be presented tohim at the confer- |ence of public health officers be- |ing held in Washington D. [} March 22, 23 and 24, is a unique | Alaska_totem. Previously expressed east so that |it could be presented personally by Council while in Washington, | OFFICIALS FOR CITY ELECTION ARE SELECTED The City Council last night np—* proved the following election officials | for the April 6 election to select a | mayor, three councilmen and al school director Precinct 1—Charles E. Rice, Mrs. Harley J. Turner, Mrs. Edwin Sut- ton, Mrs. R. L. Davlin; Mrs. William Byington Precinct 2—Nellie Simpkins, Mrs. | George B. Rice, Mrs. Howard But- ton, Mrs. Bert Lybeck, Mrs. Jam Barragar. Precinct 3—Mrs. W. H. Robinson, Mrs. Mae Kilroy, Mrs. Gudmund | Jensen, Grant Baldwin, Mrs, E. Rodenberg. The council also approved Mayor MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS & — PRICE TEN CENTS Presidentia | Candidates YANKS PUSH ON IN RAIN In'44 Bemg Tossed Up IN TUNISIA HOUSEWON'T . TAKE SENATE BILL TODAY | The House this morning voted By JACK BTIN!\ ETT WASHINGTON, March 20.—Will a President of the United States emerge from our generals of World War II? That interesting question was tossed the other day into a dis- |cussion of 1944 possibilities and al- though the group was made up of veteran politicians, none pooh- poohed the idea. Out of every war in which the involved milits United States has been (with one exception) a Harry I. Lucas’ appointment of Lars | eight to five against accepting Sen- man has succeeded to the Presi- Sorenson as truck driver, replacing |ator N. R. Walker’s bill to require a 'qency. That exception was World Jack Garrett, agreed that the City of Juneau will be the school Lux collectm for 1943, Ithe purpose of clearing up the ques- tion of ownership of abandoned | tracts for the purpose of taxation. Other action in the House in- On_the Kharkov front, the scene “It has been reported to me that self the totem is typical of Alaska of 'a giant five day tank battle, the |statements have been made on the |in formation and coloring. Soviet headquarters said the Rus-|floor of the House and elsewhere| poyever it is unique in that Lhe sians beat off violent new German |by members of the Legislature that | figyres are not typical tribal em- assaiilts but the Nazis continue to|I would veto this revenue measure. |'vlems, but symbolically thyow fresh masses of tanks, troops I find it difficult to understand | | cluded the following: | | Passed H. B. 84 unanimously, a| [bill by the Ways and Means Com- ‘ mittee, a bill to amend the law re- ‘llnng to auditing of Territorial ac- | cvun(.s to provide that the Governor resigned, and also declaration of ownership of land for \way 1, but several oldtimers said ,LhaL Gen. John J. Pershing could |have been President but that he stayed overseas so long (with the |army of occupation in Germany) that the 1920 political lines were all established before he could be brought into the picture. As it| was, Pershing was discussed as a| possibility and had he shown any, inclination, he might have swelled, Giraud Says Gafsa March Beginning of Trip to Berlin seneral Monigomery are reported (By Associated Press) The bayonet-charging troops of Gen. Montgomery are reported to have won new ground in the Mareth Line zone in Central Tu- nisia, and at the same time, the | Americans slogged ahead in the torrential rains and mud from the bloodless capture of El Guetar. Italian headquarters, meanwhile, asserted that Col. Von Arnim’s forc- es have captured an “important po- sition” in the northern sector, and that the British First Army has suffered “serious losses.” After several days of bitter fight- ing, Allied headquarters announced yesterday that the First Army had| withdrawn to the village of Tam-| and planes into the battle. The: Berlin radio in the weekend broadcast this morning mentioned the Kharkov conflict as turning| “magnificently in favor of our fighting forces” and incidentally as- serteqd that U-boats sunk 32 cargo ships and a destroyer in a pro- mm attack on an eastbound con- The Washington : Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert S. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON. — Inside fact about Vice President Wallace's' Good Neighbor pilgrimage to South America is that he was invited to' take the trip a year ago, but the State Department frowned it down. In, February, 1942, Chile first extended its invitation to Wallace. But it was not until February, 1943, | that he accepted. In the interim, the State Department didn't say yes or didn’t say no. One reason was the obvious one that we were waiting for Chile| to ‘break relations with the Axis.| But' another undisclosed reason was the' fact that Wallace wanted to take his trip without any official trimmings. He wanted to do what he 'did in' Mexico more than a| year ago when he and Jim LeCron | and (‘their wives drove' round the countryside in thelr own car like; any tourists, and nobody knew he | was the Vice-President-elect of the | United States. Wallace still would like to do this on ‘his present trip. He talks about having a good visit with “the boys,” [ g - the personnel of the Béded” ot ‘Beoiomic Warfare of e Tie' 18 cHairman. State Department has tically warned him that he have, much. time for that, top-hat formalities will woli ands fThe State Department also is worried over Wallace’s becoming involved in some of the intricate pdlitical problems of Latin Amer- jca. Should a leader of the Apristas (Peruvian Indian Party) slip up beside him while a photographer sriapped their picture, it would al- t cause a revolution in Peru. oOf should he inspect the Bolivian tii mines where labor is ground down to less than starvation wages, the Bolivian government would suffer spasms. Bo Henry, who loves people, who likes to see things first hand, may héve to walk the chalk line. To help him walk it the State De- partmient is sending along its best adviser on Latin America, erudite Larry Duggan. McKELLAR'S JOB BILL There is more than meets the L e e e (Cootinued on Page Four) {how such a thought could have arisen. We should be grateful for | small favors at all times and ac- | cept them with thankfulness and humility. “However, I am not signing this wbm. first, because it makes a curi- |ous exception to all previously en- acted tax measures and thereby | establishes a new precedent in that !t levies the tax for the calendar | years 1943 and 1944 only. In other words, the 1945 Legislature, which could of course, repeal this, and| ny other taxes that were enhacted | in the usual way, once they had | been made part of the tax legis- | {lation of the Territory, would be | |obliged to reenact this bill if it} ,desired to continue the tax. “I can see no justification for | levying this as a purely temporary tax, for although no one can fore- | see the future with accuracy, one does not have to be a prophet or | Ithe seventh son of a seventh son | to forecast that in 1945 the Ter-| ritory will be more in need of reve- inue and have fewer sources to draw upon than it has today. “Second, I am not signing the | bill because of the preamble. So! small a tax measure seems hardly |worth a preamble, and I also dis- | {agree with the presentation of the | ifacts in the preamble. | “The preamble states: ‘Whereas, lon account of the war and the dis- | ruption of normal business in the | Territory and the suspension of‘ ’gold mining for the period of the| war, resulting in a loss of revenue 1in excess of $500,000 per annum. ' The fact is that the suspension of gold mining alone has caused a loss of revenue, but not the dls- ruption of normal business. Busi- |ness is not normal, it is true; it| is far better than normal. Wages | are at an all-time high, and mer- | chants and businesses generally | have had their most profitable year | in a long time. A more realistic | preambling might read somewhat | as follows: “‘Whereas preceding Legislatures ihave never considered it nmmrw or desirable to reform our obsolete and inadequate tax structure, under which practically all of our tax revenue was derived from gross taxes on the two products extracted from the Territory—namely gold ang salmon— and “‘Whereas. it has long been ob- vious that if anything should hap- pen to either product, the financial situation of the Territorial Treas- ury would be serlously impaired, and | sonnel ‘| venting its introduction |tax structure, can’ of course, Representations symbolize the de- 1 partments of Domestic Quarantine, | (o M MI“EE Sanitary Statistics and Reports,: Mental Hygiene, Foreign and Insu- —— The totem was carved by a Ketch- Means Committee majority report | ikan native for Dr. Ralph Carr, for- cutlined the Administration’s tax led to take over the practice of Dr. 1942 levies as “like robbing Peter | Ellis of that city. |to pay a bonus to Paul. To forgive usual expression of native art. |curred and owes the Government Should Dr. Parrin be able to ac- /must be borne by some other tax- work of the Public Health Service! The report issued over the signa- on the Alcan Highway, to make|ture of Chairman Robert L. Dough- cities. : | tween Administration supporters and By way of explanation regard-| backers of the Ruml plan over just represcm\ the various divisions of the U. s‘ Public Health Service. National Institute of Health and/ Research, the Marine Hospitals, lar Quarantine and Immigration, WASHINGTON, March 20—The and Personnel and Accounts. | House of Representatives Ways and {mer Public Health Service repre-| collection plan, sharply criticized |sentative in Ketchikan who resign-'the counter proposal to skip the Donated to Gov. Gruening and any tax-payer one years taxes Dr. Council, the emblem is an un-|means the debt he has already in- i cept the invitation to visit Alaska,|payer who may in some instances Ihe will be asked to observe the be less able to pay it.” stops at some of the interior towns ' ton, offered a preview of the bit- and to visit the principal coastal|ter fight anticipated next week be- ing the organization of the U. S. how taxes shall be collected, and Public Health Service, it is pointed | whether 1942 taxes be dropped in lout that the bureau is the oldest|order to get the nation’s taxpayers lof governmental medical . services,/on a pay-as-you-earn basis. of 1200 medicos selected gucn o basis if he elects to ‘double all over the country and in norm-|.¢ 5 six percent discount of the |erican consul,” the Alaska U. ..-- ants in Europe to check on Euro- In addition to the medical divi- sanitary engineers. ' B I G B l A l E i L SBTORIINRRD R L0 | “The preamble likewise speaks of | ST. LOUIS, - March 20. — Fire are these? Liquor stamp taxes have tion o fthe five story warehouse since on account of the war there"’“pm' Three firenien have been males between the ages of 21 and| TAX COMMISSION these, there are no considerable past years vigorously opposed the well| 7y Senate informed theeHouse shall order the audit at the end of each calendar year, that the auditor submit his report to the Governor before February 1 of the ensuing year and submit copies to the Treas- urer and Auditor of Alaska, and swo additional coples to the Gov- iernor for submission to the Senate and House. Passed S. B. 37, by Finance Com- mittee, authorizing the Treasurer to waive provisions of Chapter 41, Laws of 1939, and to pay bounties on wolves and coyotes if claims are made in good faith. But the author- | ity granted would end at the end of this month. In Senate The Senate this morning Killed |Rep. R. E. Hardcastle’s bill giving boards of municipal corporations absolute control and management of municipally - owned corporations, free from strings of the common council. Senator N. R. Walker asked for the reconsideration, stating he be- lieved the common council should have something to say about rates charged. The bill was killed 8-0, after having passed yesterday by a 5-3 vote. The Senate spent most of this morning’s session in consideration of the general appropriations bill by the Committee as a Whole, with Chairman Ed Coffey of the Finance Cun\mittce in the chair. >os 'FIRST HUSBAND OF DUCHESS IS HURT BY KNIFE SANTA MONICA, March 20. — = Duchess of Windsot’s first hus- pand Earl Winfield Spencer, aged retired Naval Commander, to- (l‘ny lay in the Service Hospital at Long Beach, suffering from a two- inch laceration, concerning which Naval authorities maintained strict silence. Police Chief Webb was advised by Spencer that he had “fallen against a knife.” Spencer married Wally 25 years ago and the couple was divorced in 1927. He has been living with his fourth wife and retired from the Navy four | yearn ago. Chief Niffi Takes Life “‘Whereas precisely this situa- iuflord to pay an additional nickel a ! tion has arisen as one of the re-case, even if this tdx is not passed | h“"";,"l%hb';e" ‘“g"m:fdl‘“ 179;’] | Under the majority committee comparatively small per- .5 the taxpayer would get on through very thorough e_xamma- up’ by paying off two year‘s taxes | tions, the bureau has ramifications i one year and might get as high ;‘1[ times representatives at almost|igq3 taxes if they are paild in full ery post where there is an A'“s"before June 15 Public Health head said. “There are also ordinarily three consult‘} pean disease and methods of pre-f F I RE (H I EF into the | United States,” he said. sions is that for sanitation, where- | TRAPPED IN in the personnel is composed of tle additional money by levying a slight tax on said salmon pack. the ‘loss of taxes from other sourc- Chief Joseph Moran was trapped es resulting from the war. Whati“‘d killed in the collapse of a por- 4 been higher than ever. The whml;operated by the Goodwill Industrial. tax likewise has not dmmd,.s:veml other firemen were also are now in the Territory more;h“pu'uud' 50 and eligible to pay the tax,| than in normal times. Apart from other taxes levied in the Territory. Blll WIll “Av[ “The salmon industry, which in’ brondening ot ne. Teioras x| - (ONFERENCE COM. base and the moderRizing of our this morning that it has refused to recede in its amendments to the the boom to nomination and pos- sibly election. Revolution and probably could have established the “third term” pre- cedent if he had chosen to do 0. Out of the war of 1812 came Andrew Jackson. The Mexican War | sent Zachary Taylor to the Presi- fency. The Civil War brought to the White House Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. The hero of San Juan Hill, in the Spanish American war. was Vice- President as well as President Theodore Roosevelt.. Some of the graybeards who were ilere at the time are positive that f “Black Jack” Pershing had had i Presidential aspirations, the record would have beean unbroken and avery major war would have given 1944? Hardly. The 1944 presidential rlection issues are already being ormed. If the war were to end next nonth, the military situation might ome hero to enter the political arena. But if that hurdle were cleared, there probably would be none of sueh stature that his pop- ularity would be an issue at the! | polls. When considering Presidential possibilities, Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur immediately comes to mind,! but the hero of Bataan and New Guinea has already made it pretty clear that she’s not interested in politics. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower is a possibility. Considered solely as heroes”, who could garner votes at the polling booths, neither of these has yet reached that point. The war is yet too young. Mac- Arthur in the South Pacific the- |ater and Eisenhower in North Af- rica both have undoubtedly been getting a taste of ‘“politics” they never were called upon to gulp before, but they are essentially fighting men and their reputations lie in the future. —— “national s one or more Presidents Trom the military ranks. i Does that mean anything in e cleared up soon enough to allow | |era, 45 miles southwest. of Bizerte, land have repulsed two Axis at- | tacks. | The Facist communique and Al- As for the other wars, the in- Whanoor - (GARE ‘be | Tecitad HPT any) |lied losses included 1600 prisoners, youngster. 1"“;1 18 t*;;k“ Y Washingts he orocco radio, . however, WAHIOG) SR ipaokige b Towg e quoted General Giraud, French | Commander-in-Chief as saying, “T jam convinced that the Gafsa march is the beginning of an of- {fensive which will go on as far as Berlin.” He sald he was present when lhe fighting American troops captured the town Wednesday. A late communique from General Eisenhower said the whole front was quiet yesterday, that armored forces under Lieut. General Pat- |ton are reported driving eastward. JKP BASES BOMBARDE BY BRITIS NEW DELHI, March 20. — The British Navy's coastal ships in the Bay of Bengal today unleashed their guns on Jap positions at Dan- baikarea, western Burma, while ad- vance units of the land forces con- tinued progress southward on Mayu Peninsula. Numerous fires were started. in the city as the result of the gun fire. Pigeon Carried Gafsa Occupation To Oufside World LONDON, March 20—A Reuters dispatch from the Central Tunisian front says an American carrier pig- eon hamed Yank, carried the news |of the American occupation of Gaf- Isa to the outside world. ¢ - > STOCK QUOTATIONS R DIRECT BOMB HITS t Nazi Base ENEMY SHIP IS SPOTTED; SENTDOWN MacArthur’s Airmen Make Wide Sweep North of Australia ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, March 20. — Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s airmen per- sistently seeking out targets the Japanese have on the huge arc of invasion islands north of Australia, surprised a large Jap submarine unloading a cargo in the harbor at Lae, New Guinea, and sank it with four direct bomb hits. Meanwhile, the Japanese have |been attacking Allied positions along the northeastern .coast of New Guinea. The Japs sent 50 planes over Portlock harbor near Tuli, 50 miles below recaptured Buna. They dopped 70 bombs, damaging the wharf and a launch but failing to cause casualties. The sinking of the submarine at Lae indicates the Japanese have been forced to resort to the use of subs to supply and reinforce the hard pressed Lae and Salamau units which are known to be drast- ically short of food and other sup- plies due to the fallure of the re- cent convoya to ‘el throu‘h WILLIE PEP . GOESDOWN ~ T0 ANGOTT | | NEW YORK, March 20. — The longest winnjng streak in the pro ring history ended last night as Sammy Angott skyrocketed up the comeback trail before a capacity {crowd with a 10-round decision over Willie Pep, the Connecticut kid who | had never been beaten in 62 straight starts. Returning to the ring after a six- !month ahsence of retirement and abdication of his lightweight cham- pionship title, Angott looked more like a champion as he took the play entirely away from Pep in the first half of the fight and doggedly held on to his edge. The Associated Press score card gave five rounds to Angott and three to Pep, with two even. Angott welghed 1341z, Pep 130%. e e Shellworths Are Visiting Here from Chilkoot Barracks C. E. Shellworth and Mrs. Shell- worth arrived here yesterday from Chilkoot Barracks and are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Robert’Davlin, daugh- ter and son-in-law. For many years Mr. Shellworth has been senior civillan superinten- |dent of construction at chukoo' | Barracks. - —ee pension of gold mining, but *‘Whereas likewise as a result of the war the salmon industry is selling its pack to the government and is receiving the highest prices for that pack in history, having been presented by a generous of- |ficialdom in Washington with sev- |eral dollars more a case than last year and indeed several dollnrs‘ more a case than even the salmon industry anticipated, n-,cre is there- fore an easy way of raising a lit- sults of the war, namely the sus-{ocn to the government. The nickel! | tax is merely one more patch on |our existing patchwork tax system, and while providing a modest amount of needed revenue, does inot contribute materially to a so- lution of the financial problem: which the Territory will soon face.” - More than half of Morocco's ex- |port trade and 70 percent of its imports pass through the port of | Casablanca, tax commission bill, and Speaker James V. Davis appointed Reps. Harvey J. Smith, Leo Rogge and R. E. Hardcastle to confer with a like committee from the Senate to attempt to settle the differences. } The Senate amended the bill to [take the power to appoint the tax | commissioner out of the hands of flhe Treasurer, in whose office the wommlllon would operate, and to, | give that power to the Governor. | ¥ BUY WAR BONDS CHICAGO, Ill. March 20—Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti, chief of the Al Capone syndicate, killed himself with a revolver late yesterday afternoon, five hours after he and | eight others had been indicted in New York on charges of extorting more than $1,000000 from movie firms and labor unions. - - The majority of mental institu- tions in Great Britain are main-| lmlned by public funds. oo 00000000000 AM‘"‘ER uBOR | NEW YORK, March 20.—Closing o WEATHER REPORT . quotation of Alaska Juneau mine o (U. 8. Bureau) . DEP' stock today is 4's, Anaconda 27%, », Temp. Priday, March 19: . H HEAR'NG Bethlehem Steel 63, Commonwealth | ¢ " Maximum 37, minimum 31. e and Southern %, Curtiss Wright o precipitation .14. ° 'S “ 'I‘ONIGH'I 8%, International Harvester 63%.!e Snow on ground, 06 in. @ Kennecott 32', New York Central ¢ ¢ ¢ o ©¢ ©¢ ©¢ ¢ ¢ 9 o 13%, Northern Pacific 11, United | Chairman Joseph W. Kehoe of States Steel 53. ki R | the special join legislative com- The following are today's DOW, ¢ o o ® @ o o o o o @ mittee investigating the Territorial Jones averages: industrials 129.13, o DIMOUT TIMES . 'Dhel:flflml'fll: of Labor announced rails 31.72, utilities 17.30. . . at another public hearing will > ®© be held this evening in the Senate . LD‘:::otutt ‘zlflcl‘n'll Ozn!lhl : Chambers at 8 o'clock. C. R. Burley, Instructor for the ® &t Sunset at 7:l1 olclock. The committee held a closed ex- Short course in mining for the Ex- e Dimout, ends . jeieme & ecutive session lasy night. Kehoe tension Service for the University ® at sunrise at 6:59 a.m. * said that the committee will make Of Alaska. returned last night from * Dimout begins Sunday at e a report to the Legislature when ail Haines whire he has been conduct- ¢ 7:13 pam. L4 of the findings have been consid- ‘"% classes. e Dimout ends Monday L4 |ered fully. Mr. Burley, who conducted sever. ® sunrise at 6:56 a.m. * | R e al classes in Juneau during the ® Dimout begins Monday . | winter, is staying at the Gastineau ® sunset at 7:15 pm .. | BUY WAR PONDS 'Hotel while in the city. e s 000000000