The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 1, 1943, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. XLIL, NO. 9461. _————————————— AMERICAN FIFTH ARMY ENTERS JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRI EMPIRE — | DAY, OCTOBER 1, 1943 MEMBER"ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAPLES Kiev Battle Now Ra TWO ARMIES NOW LOCKED, DEATH GRIPS Tremendous Forces Used on Both Sides on Dnieper Front LONDON, Oct. 1.—The battle for Kiev, expected to be one of the de- cisive struggles of the war on the | German-Russian front, raged today with unabated fury, both the Rus- sians and Germans throwing tre- mendous forces of artillery, infan- try and air power into the fight to achieve mastery of the Dnieper Line. The Germans are entrenched in the ancient city fortress high on the western cliffs of the Dnieper River while the pick of the Ukrain- ian Armies faced them across the 100 yard water barrier which sep- arates them from Kiev. The eastern bank, suburbs of Kiev, is already in Soviet hands. In the battle may rest the fate of the German Armies in the great (Continued on Page Two) - e Washingion l:fit:ry-gg-flound By DREW PEARSON (Major Robert 8. Allen on active duty.) WASHINGTON—Secretary of | war Stimson is a man of great| composure, but he was visibly per- turbed when a delegation from the Senate and House Military Mfalrs‘ Committee called to protest the | transfer of General George Mar- | shall from the position of Chief of Staff to become Allled Commander- in-Chief when the second front starts across the Channel. Secretary Stimson at first looked shocked that anyone knew about Marshall's impending transfer, but did not deny that it was in the works. He did deny, however, that it was being made at the behest of the British. “A man should serve where he can render the greatest service to his country,” Stimson told his callers. i His Congressional callers, how- ever, contended that to remove Marshall from the position of chief | of staff, where he helped decide | strategy for all war fronts, would| be a blow to the war, They argued that he was the best qualified and | most experienced man in the Armyl to decide strategy for all fronts, and | that placing him in England would give him only one field of military operation. They argued that Marshall not be moved at all, or if he must be moved, that he become General of the Armies, which would put him in charge of all American war policy. ’ Stimson listened carefully, said little. In the end, however, he ob- served that the matter was “still in the mgking” and asked -his callers; not to accept Marshall's transfer “as the completed thing.” OCD TO CONTINUE Rumors about OCD folding up| now can be embalmed. Ever since’ the news leak on Jim Landis’ ; |details. The tax will apparently be % appointment as State Department| ... i, the regular income levies,|federal inncome tax obligations of coordinator in Calro, it' was report- ed that the office of Civilian De- fense would be taken apart and the pieces given to the War Depart- ment and Charley Taft for his Com- munity War Services program. Inside fact is that an Executive Order was drafted for this purpose but was blocked largely through the efforts of quiet but effective Harold Smith of the Budget Bureau. He believed that although air raid duty would be lessened, there was a big job to be done by millions of vol- unteers both in War Service worl and protective activity against ac- cidents and fires. So OCD’s army of 11,000,000 vol- unteers now seems to be assured of (Gontinued on Page Four) | | /ALLIED i | Allied ground forces, 8th Befuddled Tax 1 | | STIFF TAX " PROGRAM ~ COMINGUP | | | { {Proposal WiI—IBe Submit- fed to House Com- mittee Monday WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—The Ad- mlnutr\fion’s revenue program, em- bodying stiff tax increases on $5,000 to $25,000 income brackets, and pro- |viding postwar rebates in cash or government life and annuity insur-| ance, has shaped up for presenta-| tion to Congress, and apparently! there is a controversial reception in prospect there. The program as outlined by a group of the members of the Con- gressional Taxing Committees will be submitted formally to the House | | Ways and Means Committee on I next Monday. The program proposes a new re-;| fundable tax, understood to 'have been suggested by Roosevelt, who is| |said to have overruled objections of | Morgenthau. This is in the form jof .a compulsory saving, although the conferees declined to discuss all | izhz present wage and salary with- {holding rate being increased from 20 to 30 per cent above fixed ex- emptions and the present five per cent victory tax will be abolished. the Government’s immediate col- lection from all individuals by $6,- 400,000 yearly, thus furnishing the major share of ten billion dollars the revenue program is geared to raise. e ® 0 00 00 0 0 0 WEATHER REPORT (U. 8. Bureau) Temp. Thursday, Sept. 30 Maximum 53; Minimum 46 Rain .75 ? % 99 0 0 90 0 0 ,W AT THE SALERNO FRONT for a personal look at by their troops are Sir Harold Alexander (left), and Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark, They met shortly after a junction had bee; ‘Army and Allied troops. Bignal CHIEFS AT SALERNO FRONT the battle being waged commander in chief of U. 8. 5th Army chief. n formed between the British ternational) Corps. Radiophoto. (In: payer’s Headache MayBe Eased Filing Income_lgelums By JACK STINNETT CHASE LAST ' JAPS OUT OF FINSCHHAFEN | Aussie Jun fer Defenders of Enemy Base ALMIED HEADQUARTERS IN‘ SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Oct. 1 Australian jungle troops are closing | in on the last Jap positions at Fin- schafen, New Guinea, after hurling back three savage Jap counter- attacks. Fifty Japs were Kkilled in the sharp fighting for a strategic spur just outside the townsite, and the remainder of the defending force was scattered. Allied bembers, meanwhile, raided Jap bases in the Dutch Celebes, hitting a freighter and down 12 of 35 Jap interceptors. In a raid over Bougainville, Al- lied fighter planes sank cne barge loaded with Jap troops. One Allied plane was lost. D SUB SINKS (ANADIAN- DESTROYER Only One Member of Crew| of 147 Saved Off | Atlantic Coast - OTTAWA, Oct. 1—The Canadian 1 gle Troops Scal- t shooting | destroyer St. Croix was torpedoed, WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—The gov- and sunk on convoy duty with the |ernment is planning “to ease the loss of 146 men, Navy Minister | befuddled taxpayer’s headache by Angus McDonald announced, driv- simplifying the business of income ing home the fact that German| tax reporting. ‘subs are again preying cn the Two of the more likely changes North Atlantic supply routes. Only among several being studied now by one member of the crew was res- Congressional and Treasury tax €X- gued. pers are: | McDonald’s statement gave no| 1. Elimination of the fillng of re- ' gaiailc of the loss of the St. Croix, | turns by wage earners in-the 1oW ... . the 50 United States destroy- income brackets. 2. Permission to persons with in- comes as high as $5,000, and possibly up to $10,000, to use a simplified tax form for their March 15, year-end returns. One or both of these simplifiers may be put into effect in time tp save millions of taxpayers paper work and brain fatigue next March ers turned over to Britain before| Pear! Harbor in exchange for Naval| bases, but it is recalled Prime Min-| ister Winston Churchill disciosed to| the House of Commons in his war review on September 9 that an) Atlantic convoy was under attack| at that moment. | The St. Croix was the fourth) Gen. MacA | i | tGeneral Douglas MacArthur (darl Newspaper On War N WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. — The | Newspaper Advisory Committee of the Office of War Information, composed of executives of a dozen newspapers and headed by Roy Roberts, Managing Editor of the Kansas City Star, asserts that the American public is “not being ade- quately informed about the war.” The committee blamed the “dis- inclination on the part of some Richard B. Rugsell (D.-Ga.), Henry C. Lodge (R.-Mas. (R.-Me). The man behind Brewster was not identified. Signal Corps phote, rmen Félir'louglii for Wéafy When the Senators inspecting the war fronts arrived at an air base in New Guinea, they were met by The Seators were (left to right) : James M. Meade (D.-N.Y.), Albert B. Chandler (D.-Ky), and Ralph Brewster k glasses). Profes! e blic A rpemarss g ews; Pu Not gflen All Fads high naval and military authorities to evaluate what is information to which the public is entitled if any. “Complacency in the war effort on the part of Americans is not due to lack of patriotism or desire for an easy victory but rather to the absence of a full and neces- sary understanding,” the committee said. the American Troops Now Suggested by Senator | WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.—United | States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. ges With Unabated Fury rthur Meets Senators, New Guinea (ONQUESTOF GREAT PORT NOW ENDED Allied* Forces Clatter Info Ifaly’s Third Larg- : NO GERMANS FOUND; HASTY RETREAT MADE L R ‘&AII Military Installations Wrecked in Orgy of Destruction ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Oct. 1.— Lt. Gen. Mark Clark's American Fifth Army has captured Naples, Italy’s third greatest city, and thrown the German defenders back on the defenses of Rome, 120 airline miles north. The American and British forces clattered into Naples and found the city of 925,000 popu- lation, empty of the Germans whe for one week engaged in an orgy of destruction and terror- ism, designed to burn or tear would be o’Wi 'fi Allied Forces and also hamper Italian cooperation with the li- berating armies. The special communigue is- sued early this morning an- nouncing the fall of Naples did not give the time at which the Allied troops seized the great- est city and port they have won on the continent of Europe. | | | | WATCH JAPS IS WARNING OFLANDRUM Tricky Nipponese May At- tempt Comeback in Aleutians By NORMAN BELL War Correspondent of Associated | | | Greatest Victory Yet | The entry into Naples was the | greatest victory yet won by the | Allies in their 1943 offensive smash Press | against Hitler'’s European Fortress. ADAK, Alaska, Oct, 1. — Major| It Was accomplished by smashing General Landrum, who commanded | 108 the rim of Mt. Vesuvius |the Army troops in the bloodiest | A8ainst grim resistance put up by |fighting to clear the Aleutians of | German rear guards who paid a the Jap invasion threat, thinks “it | big price for the gain of a few | would be foolish” not' to be prepared | extra hours for their commander to for a possible comeback attempt by n make arrangements for a line of- tricky Japanese following the vicious ' defense farther north. | battle of Attu last May. | Although German convoys are | He made the statement in an| reported streaming back toward {Jr., just back from a world tour interview, discussing the more re-| {cent bloodless conquest of Kiska, |when the United States and Can- | jadian forces landed at Kiska only! |to find thé Japanese had evacunltd.l | ‘The troops. found such signs as “We ‘will come back and kill uut} | separately every Yankee joker. Re- member Kiska,” but the General said probably the signs were merely but no definite decision has been Canadian destroyer lost since the| ! made about that. the war. { | swamped by the tremendous increase The effect will be an increase in|In taxpayers. Treasury General Counsel Ran- dolph Paul, who is not given to making blithe promises of tax relief, says “special attention is being given to the proposal that year-end re- turns be eliminated entirely for certain classes of taxpayers.” This elimination probably would apply to single persons with wages not in excess of $2,700 and married persons with wages not exceeding $3,500, provided they didn’t receive more than $100 in income other than wages. That is the group which is! not required to make a quarterly | tax estimate. The withholding from wages would completely take care of the: | | | | some 35,000,000 of the country’s 50,- 000,000 income taxpayers. This woulg be a boon also to the internal revenue bureau, which has been The filing of a return would be optional for persons in, the low wage brackets. For example, a married man with wages of $3,000 and very heavy medical expenses would want to make out a return in order to take advantage of the deduction for extraordinary medical ‘costs. Wage withholding has no special provision beginning of - Cox Quifs “Under Fire, F(C Battle WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—Repre- sentative E. E. Cox of Georgia, who| has been engaged in a bitter feud with members of the Federal Com- | munication Commission in his ca-| pacity as head of a special commit-| tee to investigate the FCC, has re- signed as chairman, also as a mem- | ber of thedgroup. The resignation was demanded in a petition filed May 13 with Speaker Sam Rayburn by Clifford Durr,| member of the FCC, who charged that Cox was not fitted to conduct an investigation because of his con- nection with the Albany, Georgia, radio station, which has business pending before the Commission. Recently, Drew Pearson, of the Washington Merry-Go-Round made repeated charges against Cox, em- for such deductions. Failure to take them would in many cases result in substantially higher taxes. “(Continued on Page Three) phatically stating that the Cox!| Committee was spending huge sums of money on the investigation and had, never summoned any FCC KETCHIKAN POLICEMEN END STRIKE Chief Ouitsfi So Patrol- men Go Back fo Duties Alaska, Oct. 1— of the fighting fronts, told the Sen- ate he found a “surprising amount, of sentiment” among Army and | Navy Commanders in the field for |a single Department of war ! | Senator Lodge critici: d military lcensomhip, called for greater Bri-/ tish contribution of petroleum for| the fighting forces and urged some means be found for a furlough for | weary American troops to come | home. | -oe | | STOCK OUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 1, — Closing | § | | that the Japanese had drawn back definitely to their own soil for a strictly defensive war. Before the war can be won, Lan- drum declared, the ground forces must invade Japan itself and “phy- al difficulties alone take time to overcome.” LONE YANK PLANE IN KE‘TCH“““_" quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Ketchikan police are back on the|goex today is 7', American Can job today after walking out last ggy, Anaconda 2%, Bethlehem night in protest against the dis-|gteel 59%, Curtiss Wright 7%, In- missal ofione of their number bY ' ternational Harvester 71%, Kenne- Chief Jacob Zeldenrust. cott 31%, New York Central 1 Zeldenrust resigned today, say-| Northern Pacific 15%, United States ing “it’s easier for the city to get Steel 53, Pound $4.04. one chief than five patrolmen,” and | Dow, Jones averages today were all strikers, as well as the one who!as follows: Industrials, 140.33} rails, had been dismissed, returned to!35.22; utilities, 21.83. work under Acting Chief Claude %& Atken. The latter and Chief Zeldenrust PRICES THURSDAY were the only ones left to patrol| Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- the city last night so Coast Guards- neau mine stock Thursday was 6%, men were sworn in as special city |American Can 86, Anaconda 26%, police to help enforce city laws. !Bethlehcm Steel 59, Curtiss Wright i 7%, International Harvester 77'z, Kennecott 31%, New York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 14%, United States Steel 53%, Pound $4.04. D. L. McLennan and E: Herman,| Dow, Jones averages Thursday FROM OUTSIDE members to give their side of the story. both of Seattle, are registered at were as follows: Industrials, 140.12; the Baranof Hotel, rails, 35.11; utilities, 21.84, JAP RAID | | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—A single }Amerlcun plane engaging five Zeros {over enemy held Nauru Island, de- | stroyed one enemy ship and prob- ably downed anotrer. the Navy re- | ports. The communique gave no infor- mation on the reconnaissance plane itself but assumed it returned safe- ly to its base. A reconnaiss~-e flight to Naucu which is 60 to 90 miles north of | Guadalcanal might indicate in- |creasing interest in Jap Meld Gilbert {Islunds. | If the attack was carried out in {force and Nauru occupie” it would vprovlde a second basc within easy ‘strlnnu distance of the muin vap | positions ir. the “iilberts and on ' Tarawa Island, Rome, the Volturno River some 20 (Continued on Page ‘I'hree)’ - ALLIES PLAN TOMOVEON. ~ ROME NOW |Roosevelt fia]es Object- ives of Forces En- gaged in Haly | WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. — Presi- }c_ieut Roosevelt said today the ob- | Jectives of the Allied forces in Italy are to free Rome, the Vatican and | the Pope, in much the manner of a | crusade, while at the same time |avoiding all possible destruction. The President showed some skep- ticism at a press-radio conference ‘about the news reports that Ger- |many might make the next stand 1on the line to Rome, now that the Allies have entered Naples. He said he didn't think Major General Dwight Eisenhower knew | where the next stand would be. | Three minutes before the news con- ference opened he received a flash from the General saying that the Allied troops had entered Naples. The President asserted that one ’mmz he could say was that nat- iurally the advance was going to | continue and every effort is going | to be made by the Allied to prevent |damage to Rome and the Vatican and they were doing everything pos- sible to prevent active fighting lead- Ing to the destruction of Rome,