The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1943, Page 6

the position of “Buffalo the Kansas Pacific Club SKAGWAY IS | Mrs. Florence Vandewall Passes Away Today ago for treatment accom- hushand eral weeks + panied by her The Vandewalls have been resi- killer” for dents of way since going there | office Railroad from Eagle in 1908. Mrs. Vandewall Scarce? Sure, but I'll enjoy it that much more! SCHENLEY ROYAL RESERVE A message from the United States Treasury abo: ~YOUR WARTIME TAX DOLLARS - THE American people have accepted the highest tax bill in the history of the country with splendid patriotism and cheerful- ness. The Treasury Department of the United States feels that an explanation is due them in turn—fecls that they deserve to be told why, when and how their tax dollars are vital to winning this war and the peace that will follow. As a taxpayer, consider these facts: Our government is-currently spending 240 million dollars each day, almost all of it on war, and this figure will increase materially as the war continues. About a third of that amount is being raised through taxes. Those tax dollars are as necessary for weapons with which to defeat our enemies as are dollars raised through the sale of WAR BONDS. Hence, when you pay taxes today you are definitely and directly contributing to victory. And, at the same time, your taxes actually help to maintain your own purchasing power now—and prevent disaster to your country after the war. Here’s how: Billions of Dangerous Dollars Every time your cost of living advances, you are paying a tax on your income. If your cost of living should double, you would pay a tax of 50% on your salary, wages or other income. But it would be a tax that wouldn’t benefit our fighting forces, our govern- ment or anyone clse—except Hitler and Hirohito. Now—to prevent such a concealed tax on your income from taking place —isn’t it good sense as well as sound patriotism to pay your government taxes of 20% on part of your total income —or more, if necescarv? Q. How much of my federal tax payments is being spent on war and how much on so-called “normal” expenditures? A. About 96% of your tax payments are currently going to pay for direct war expenditures. Only one dollar in every twenty-two you pay, therefore, goes forall other federal expenses, most of which are indirectly (o aid the war effort. Q. How I!’lfldl of the total war bill is being paid currently out of taxes A. A lide over one-third. Q. Is this proportion higher or lower than in England and Canada? A. Lower. Both Canada and Great Britain are paying approximately half of their war expenses through taxation. Q. Is there any way other than taxes and war bonds by which the government could finance our share of the war? A. Thete is. The government could borrow from the commercial banks, | o was prominent in civic affairs, was a member of the Skagway School Board for several terms and The members of the Girls Service Mis. Lucretia S. Botsford, of the Territorial Department of Mines left, by steamer today for a month’s vacation in the States. SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT YOUR TAX BILL also RECALLED FROM U. §. | ceeded by Gromyo- Removal of Litvinoff at the best| 24, 1942. . indicates that Marshal Joseph Sta-| He Is British-Anterican cperations. - Andrei A. Gromyo succeeds Lit-|OPerations in the area. vinoff in Washington. ., } Observers in Washington expect | idea what they may be Litvinoff has been a symbol American and Russian cooperation - BACK FROM TENAKEE J. A. Thibodeau and daughter gagements." M: ee aboard the Estebeth, | D - { MARSHAL MAHONEY BACK Marshal William T. Ma- returned from Seattle after Mrs. Caroll Clausen weekend accompanied u. s honey registered at the Baranof. paid circulation. And your taxes do help prevent just such a price rise! How? By taking part of the billions of dangerous dollars which otherwise threaten your living standard and putting them to wuseful work, win- ning the war. Those billions of dangerous dollars, you know, represent the difference between the income the American people will receive this year and the amount of civilian goods that will be made in the same twelve months. If taxes were lower, prices would tend to rise, and your real income would be reduced by just that much. Keeping the America He Knew There’s another reason why your high taxes help your country in wartime—and really 2 much more important one to you. Your tax money is helping to win the war now—but it's equally essential to winning the peace and keeping the America that boy knew before he went into the armed forces. All the industrial power, all the inventive genius and productive capacity of this country would not bring back 2 busy, prosperous America that we know if a drastic deflation followed victory. And, as surely as the sun that rises in the morning will st at night, a deflation would follow an inflation brought about by failure to tax ourselves realistically now. So, next time that tax burden seems heavy to you—think of these facts. Remember that your tax dolars are helping to pay for victory now—that they are in there fighting for your living standard now—and that they are working to kecp our country’s financial structure sound for that boy now ia the armed service, for all your family, and for you in the years of peace to come. which would put even greater spending power in the hands of the people —thus creating a basis for inflation. Q. Is there any other advantage in financing as large a share of the war bill as possible through taxes? A. Yes—and a very real one to you,.the taxpayer. A/ the bills for the cost S of the war must be paid sooner or later through taxation, but if paid cur- rently, from taxes, there will be no interest charge to mount over the years ", and provide an extra burden for you to carry. Q. So far, so good. But don't you think taxation is unfair in the way it distributes the burden for all this? A. On the con .nnd'ebel.kv:ymwifllgneifyoudfinkilmgi‘l. dmuxesu:flqzhe fairest, most equitable way to pay for the war. That's because Federal Income taxes are levied on ability 10 pay for something thar all of us need and must have — victory now, a sound America later. This advertisement is a contribution to America’s all-out war effort by P.E.HARRIS & COMPANY . |- | A s v returned to Juneau from Ten- |MRS. CLAUSEN ARRIVES WITH YOUNG GRANDSO! of Peters- |burg arrived in Juneau over the route to Japan—is now cleared and her young grandson Michael. They will Paramushiro. spend some time with her daugh- and Mrs. escorting prisoners to the States ter and son-in-law, M. - | Robert Schwartz MRS. ROCK HERE | ——o—— Here from Seattle, Mrs. R. B,E Subscrive w0 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE--JUNEAU ALASKA LITVINOFF ~ NOTEDNAVAL President of the Skagway Woman’s | She was about 65 years old and had a host of friends Besides her husband, she is sur- vived by a son Francis, now in the GSO GIRLS TO MEET e OFFICER FOR KISKA TAKE Vice AdmiraTKin(aid, oflAerr Silence for Two Other Sea Battles, Com- now commander of the lin is impatient with the pace of ,Naval Forces of the North Pacific | |in command of the joint military important developments as the re-| Coral Sea action said it was due to 6 sult of Litvinoff’s recall but have no Kincaid's “aggressive leadership and 1on East Anglia and also rumbled determined action through the skill {over Ofland courageous devotion to duty At least two ensmy bombeis were of units under his command that downed. | heavy losses were inflicted on the | - and it will be recalled he bitterly . denounced the Japanese at the time| 4ttacking enemy, Japanese of the Pearl Harbor attack {HECUES, 2SeleRy LIy Ung | measurably to the ultimate success | ! of our forces in these notable en- by BRITISH HIT CONTINENT WITH BOMBS Nights, Heavy Af- | ; Porfland Otgantiabion . 'willl" iest mEreow Breach Feared mands West Alaska | facks Resumed in rorfa ikt télod 56 | | I night at 7:30 o'clock in the USO 2 | ! R 89 a T L 4rEis I”:"’.'M”i”.' ]‘ All girls are request- (By Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. — The| LONDON, Aug. 23. — British SAMPLER s, Florence Ve ke T R T Maxim Litvinoff has been recalled | Aleutians campaign, completed with |bombers returned from crushing at- 2 P. . J. VRusewalli; DR g B e | as Russian Ambassador to the Unit- | the unopposed landing of the Am-|acks on Germany last night after 111 the famous assortment of Collector at \k.x‘_)\\‘x\ passec ‘\w\ MRS. LESHER SOUTH ed States. This announcement fol-' erican forces at Kiska, was a heavy an interval of two nights. best-liked confections . . . here this morning in Portland, md”’f" Mrs. R. B. Lesher sailed for the!jows on the heels of Ivan Maisky's! punch at the Japanese engineered| mhe British Air AR sali tha dicect from the makers$1.50 { |10 o radiogram 1'1'1'14\!"1' M. S.|south this morning enroute to Se- withdrawal from London. |by Vice Admiral Thomas Kincaid, .pemical works at Leverkusen, six 0 $7.50. Whittier from Georg “‘\11'1" : ""““"' attle. She expects to be away several | The two recalls stirs fears that a|35 years old, who holds decorations | voc norh of Cologne e deputy collector at the Gateway | weeks i ST 5 et for his part i i . i . BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO.! cits ) breach may develop between Sov- | IC pfl.L. n the battle of Coral| ,o.ia) target. “The Rexall Store” Mrs. Vandewall went south sev fet Russia and her British-Ameri- Sea of May 4 to May 8, 1942, and “pnyceoiqorf and the Rhineland MRE. BOTSFORD LEAVES can Allie | the battle of the Solomons A"zufl‘lwem ke aatiokad. ; Heavy clouds made it difficult to see the results. Hardly had the night raiders re- |turned when light bombers and . His citation for the Distinguished |fighters sped out by daylight to Service Medal given him after the resume the attacks. Enemy raid scattered bombs utheast Encland last night Ldhieie- 5 [Chain of Bases Now Completed fo Strike, Break Japan's Back (Continued from Page One) from Attu we are only 630 miles to “The southern route is still thou- sands of miles from Japan through {hazardous Jap controlled waters. | “The Jap occupation of the Aleu-| wie Daily Alaska |tians serves the United States well. Rock arrived over the weekend and | Empire—the paper with the largest It made us aware of our danger and | as a result we rushed completion of the chain of air and sea bases to defend our western approaches and |now, when the time comes, we will {be ready to use them for the gigan- |tc offensive to break Japan’s back.” { Jap Blood Drawn . Vice Admiral Kincaid said the ;KLska campaign did not fail to draw Jap blood and a goodly num- ber, estimated at several hundred, were killed but how many it is dif- | ficult to say. “Our relentless pounding by the | Eteventh Air Force, under Maj. Gen. William Butler and heavy surface’ bombardments of more than 5,000,000 pounds of bombs (dropped on Kiska, were the hea in the Pacific Naval warfare,” said seven years of knowing except in Coca-Cola itself. skill guarantees the unique soft drink on Earth. energy that you can really N making a bull’s-eye or making a soft drink there are no short cuts to “know-how”, That’s the explanation of why so much satisfaction is packed into the pause that refreshes with ice-cold Coca-Cola. Fifty- i Nature’s choicest ingredients ex- t plain the different kind of refresh- ment you get in Coca-Cola. A finished art in its making creates its original taste. You’ve never found this delicious taste in anything else expect in every drop of this best-liked : Note how Coca-Cola goes beyond mere- ly quenching your thirst to leave a de- lightful after-sense of refreshment. Here’s || you get the real thing. There’s no com- parison. Call for ice-cold Coca-Cola by . its full name or by its familiar abbre- ( viation—Coke. The best is always the better buy. is always the better buy! Juneau Cold Storage Co. -{ Lids to fit all jars Jelly Glasses Certoand Wax .. . in fact everything for the Canning Season. MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1943 - GEORGE BROTHERS CANNING SUPPLIES! Jars in pints and quarts EORGE BROTHERS || PHONE 92 Free Delivery PHONE 95 § ¥ : Where Service, Price and Quality Meet | LARGEST SHIPPERS IN ALASKA! | marines in the Aleutian theatre. | Jap Ships Sunk “Unofficial estimate of ships sunk is 20 and the number of submarines is eight, plus many possible sink- ings. “After the Japs began the evacua- tion of Kiska I believe we sank some more of their ships during heavy fog at night but this can”t be confirmed. American warships made contact with some object by instruments and salvos were fired at the objects and they disappeared. “The Aleutian campaign has been costly to the Japanese. Some esti- | mates place the iosses at 10,000 men plus ships and materials. It has also been costly to us, expen- sive fire of so many rounds and drop so many bombs but it has saved thousands of American lives Kiska proved that the Japs know when they are whipped. With enough weapons we can drive them from one island to another.” - The Daily Alaska Empire has the est paid circulation of any Al- ska newspaper, That Gilia Som ...You can spot it every time how to blend The same quality you feel. Be sure | 3 1 iK?‘x:;:‘idn.m- sunk ships and sl ES“BHH BR'"GS Outdoor action calls for a refreshin; reaction. It calls for ice-cold Coca. only a little thing, but the big things it does to please peogl: make it the best-liked soft drink on Earth. N [6_PASSENGERS' 1 Arriving in Juneau on the motar- ship Estebeth over the weekend were from Sitka—William Walm- 8 berg, Katherine Herman and Marie:* Trierschield. , From Chatham—Poda Snigaroff. From Tenakee—Fred Crisp, True Erickson, Mrs. J. A. Thibodeau and Mary Thibodeau g From Hoonah—Herbert Lawson, § Mrs. Ione Felton, Miss Ione Felton, William Hansen, Dale Peterson, § John Monlux, Don Allen and Leon- ard Rodland. PRI S SN A RETURNS FROM TWO MONTHS BUYING TRIP | Leota Russell, proprietor of Leo- | ta’s shop, has returned from a two months’ buying trip to the States., She was accompanied by her son Marcus. - FROM WASHINGTON Here from Washington, D. C, Stanley C. Ross is a guest at the Baranof. indoor la. It's \ Wartime limits the supply of Coca-Cola. Those times when you cannot get it, remember: Coke, being first { choice, sells ouit first. Ask for it each time. No matter Pl ‘ how short the supply, the quality of Coca-Cola carries on.