The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1945, Page 4

PAGE FOUR D(uly Alaska Em pire hed every evening excent Sunday by the EMPIRE PRINT) COMPANY Second and Main Gtreets, Juneau, Alaska, Publis President Vice-Presidant Bd'lnr and Manager Managing Editor P R AITRED 7 JENGER Entered in the Post Office in Juneau as Second Class Matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Delizered by carrier in Juneau and Douglas for §1.50 per month; | #3 months, $8.00; one year, $15.00. ge paid, at the following rates: . $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.60; | $1.50 confer a favor if they will promptly notify ribers w [ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1945 | Even while many of us pay in taxes all we ferl_[rflmm""m !we can the money which the Federal government | | receives from all sources is not enough to finance Hm\ HAPPY BIRTHDAY | waging of war with the result that the greatest debt lin the of the the history people. | The end of the war will mean that we will (‘Mw‘ i | | | | | |to pay with lives for the privilege of living under that form of government which we hold to be that of our |choice, but also that we must continue to pay a mw share of our incomes to the Federal government | {for many years to come in order to reduce this huge | debt e Business Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- Indeed, if all of the 48 States proposed to pass dvers of their papers. g YT\Z:r.LflM News Offiee, 602; Business Office, 374 legislation which would, as the proposed program f -— oo | Alaska, the effect of reducing Federal tax in- MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is esclusively entitled to the use for jcome, We¢ believe that this would be of great concern sepublication of all news dispatches credited to it or not other- ol thres e successful prosecutior yise credited in this paper and also the local news published and a real threat to the successful prosecution of the | erein. war. — Alaska Newspapers, 1411 SOMETHING TO CONSIDER Something which should be considered in the con- | sideration of the proposed tax changes is the fact As the Governor said in his opening statement to the Legislature several weeks “The overshadowing fact, as we meet here for the | biennial session of the Seventeenth Legislative As- sembly, is that our nation is still at war. It is deeply engaged in an all-out, total war, the duration of which no one can foretell | This is one thing that certainly should be HM-) (into consideration by the legislators. | Last Fling? (Cincinnati Enquirrr» | Apparently there has been a marked increase in | |German submarine activity-in the North Atlantic | although the effectiveness of it has not yet been | delineated in any Allied ton e loss reports. We |assume that the American troopship carrying 2,200 | u)ldlms which was reported sunk “recently in Euro- | pean waters” was a victim of U-boats. In all likelihood, every seaworthy submarine in the German fleet and every submarine fit to go to sea is now in action against the Allied sea lanes. that the program not only advocates the abolition |After a year of slight accomplishment, during which of virtually all existing Territorial taxes but the ship launchings: far exceeded sinkings, the German “elimination of Pederal taxes pald in the Territory |undersea fleet has a now-or-never task on its hands. by crediting them against the new taxes.” | The long nights and wintry weather so ideal for his quotat i a " X " . | stalking convoys:will not last many more weeks. This quotation is taken from the Governor's|™™ . . on. airéady has lost the battle of the At- It refers evidently to the crediting of ;.40 The Allied convoy system made the waters | Federal license ta Xes, Another aspect, however, is that a good part of the Territorial income tax, if this measure is passed, would be deductable from the present Federal taxes and corporations pay to the Federal which individuals government. This would mean that would derive less revenue is what is referred to by those who say the Federal ]‘m'm'nmm! from the Territc That “Now is not ! | of that vital oceanic highway more dangerous to the U-boats than they were to our,ships, and the “rattle- snakes of the deep” were battered into impotence at the time when they might have hamstrung the movi ment of our mighty Army and its equipment overseas. They can still be a deadly nuisance, as we see. But they can scarcely be rated as a major peril any more as they were in 1942 and 1943, particula The size nr the U-boat fleet has been decreased appreciably. | Fgually important, the U-boats have been thrust , from their previous arc of bases along the Eastern the time,"” and which is ridiculed by the Governor. As a nation united for the common purpose of | Atlantic. North Africa no longer offers facilitie waging a war against ressor nations who would | them; we may presume that any hospitalits they destroy the democratic way of life, we are accepting cheerfully the heaviest Federal tax load in the history ports along the Ghannel coast of France, including | This still leaves the besieged U-boat bases | of the United States. But this is not enough, We are also buying war bonds at that must be astounding to our enemies. And even this is not enough a rate may ha end now, and Allied forces have captured all of the Brest. at Bordeaux and St. Nazaire, where the Germans ‘ have held out doggedly in order to keep the subm’mnes | going ‘xmlhm winter. w sh have usual a mg'on hopped to his feet and began | Mr. Hitler and Mr. Stalin have !apologizing. concluded an armistice.” What the | MeHY' “This isn't our party,” Lockwood |Nazis want, of course, is distrust| caid. “It ‘was arranged for us. We among the United Nations, and a GO-ROIII‘N’ have nothing to do with the ar- negotiated peace . .. A significant —_— rangements.” new Slav treaty is now being ne- (Continued from Page One) | Felt and Terrell said nothing, gotiated. It will bind together the left the room. Czechoslovak Government and the | Dewey.pulled _two, boners during' Note — When Wendell Willkie lfub!m-Pohsh Government in the his visit, which didn't help ‘made his first trip to Washington first step toward the creat_xon of ing with a number of Gop 2fter the 1940 defeat, he invited an Eastern European Slavic Al'- he ‘was ‘ accompanied by i1 all newsmen, especially those liance — naturally with Moscow's two burly New York State troopers irom critical papers, renew d many blessing. i who acted as bodyguards. After friendships, won more admirers. ‘Ccp;/lnghl, 194[57, I)y'Tln- lunch in the Senate dining room, (EL'RI\;IAN ”L‘s-'/"‘““‘ e, Inc.) several Senators came up to shake hands. But Dewey’s bodyguards, not realizing that the Senate dining room is open to all Senators, t to block off one or two unexpected Senators, includdng pugnacious + Senator Theodore Bilbo of Missis sippi. When Bilbo was prevented from walking into the dining room to pay his respects to Dewey he backed out gnd bellowed: According to patches now react active guerrilla w up cn a mounting German lines. Fifth Column in recently with ace UNDERGROUND varfare First real indication of an active' ly been sound, ‘mc(‘nuv saying: “At this moment SEETHES hing ‘ashington, | NEWS is flaring scale behind the Immediately foilowing basketball game with Juneau, to be played in the Juneau gym, all Douglas High School students, the Germany came urate reports of nation is being shouldered by | ! foreseen e enjoyed on the Iberian Peninsula is at an |~ tonight’s ; FEBRUARY 16 Percy E. Reynolds Kenneth Junge Mrs. Blair Stelle Jesse D. Lander Mrs. Claire Christie Edna Lucas Marguerite Shaw Margaret Fesberg R (it s L HOROSCOPE “The stars incline but do not compel” SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Mixed planetary influences are ac- |tive today a time for closmy deals and avoiding initiative and| | fortunate for signing contracts, HEART AND HOME: Frustra- tions and disappointments are indi- cated for man; ons who try to maintain the prewar American pat- tern of living. Those who are wise | enough to lead the simple life will cape discomforts when pmlonflem war brings ancial problems. BUSINE AFFAIRS: Iucrnasvd | tax e forecast as unavoidable iwhile the cost of war climbs con-! | stantly. Big business will be \'mc\ to trim expenses ~wherever it x.s possible to economize, the seers de- |clare. Thrift should be prmme(l, by wage earners who desire post-} war security from want. H NATIONAL ISSUES: Owing to| ‘(1 e necessary acceptance of thous-| ands of Servicement's wives of for- |eign birth puzzling new immigration problems are foreseen. Refugees irom many lands will kneck ‘at the doors of this nation. | INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ! Despite divergence of views regard-| ing future international policies, u.v; |trologers declare that the way is| | | |clear for sweeping social, economic and political changes in the estab- lishment of a new world of liberty and justice for all | Persons whose birthdate it is have| augury of a year in which un- events change well- 1aldl plans but success will mark pm-. sistent effort. Children born on this day probab- | ly will be endowed with artistic talents that bring success. Danger of accidents is foreseen. (Copyright, 1945) th | | | | | i . Name of MacArthur in Philippines Is Symbol | Of Sympalhy, Freedom | { 3 / | ({Continued from Page One) idea that A'r rica might, some dnv‘ need a base in the Pacifie That is part of the reason, 8ays: Romulo, why the Filipinos felt that | MacArthur's promise wouldn’t be rbrukun That is why, he says, when MacArthur landed on Leyte and said 1sxmply “I have returned,” the words reached all over the Philippines. That is why, as nowhere else in the Pacific or the Orient, the. Allied |armies have found the guerrillas |ready and waiting to join forces in wiping out the invaders. “What can we say of MacArthur?” asks Commissioner Romulo. [‘We wan sum it up in simple terms. To 2| Alaska cities where he had been calling on the trade. ' if he doesn’t jump up from the table and run away, if he doesn’t interrupt “See here, 1\‘0\1. This is the Capitol pitched battles inside Berlin, Bres- lar and Bremen. This new guer- of the United States. And this is rilla warfare differs from that of the Senate of the United States. partisan units inside France, Yugo- Apa thif is the Senate dining slavia and Greece in that few of room. And I'm a United States the guerrilla troops are Germans. Senator so get the h - - - out of the The bulk are Frenchmen and Rus- vay.” sians who were captured earlier in The bodyguards retreated, didn't the w&r and have been used as realize they had been pushing slave labor Senators like Bilbo around for close All of these workers were mre-[lhe States. to an hour. fully guarded by Himmler until{ |recently. Most lived in big cities DEWEY'S LEFT-HANDED ‘and worked in large industrial PRESS CONFERENCE plants. In Berlin for example, hun- Dewey’s other boner was with dreds of thousands of slave laborers the pri Instead of calling a regu- have been housed in fenced-off lar press conference as is customary temporary barracks in the heart| with all political figur the New of the city. Yo Governor got inveigled into But recent powerful Allied air 2 private dinner with a small group raids have created such chaos that ' of newsmen. Not even the Asso- thousands of foreogn workers ciated Press or the United Press escaped from their enclosures and were included in this secret pow- have hidden in the bomb ruins. wow. Naturally, there was a howl t night, the guerrillas prowl the' So to straighten things out, a streets, capture Nazi sentries, steal cocktail party was held for some focd and ammunition, commit ex- of those who were peeved. How- tensive sabotage. They have been | even this s restricted, and j by some German Army de- caused Dewey more trouble. $ afraid to return to the those who were left out, front. 11 of Newsweek and Once Berlin is ‘taken it is ex- Felt of the St. Lo Star pected that the several million decided to drop over to the e laborers will flare into such where the Dewey press revolt that Germany—except in| ce was taking place the mountainous south—will cave desk they were told like an eggshell 8 had been left by to reveal where WAR NOTES er was taking place. However FDR. still hasn't decided who stairs in the Pan Ame n room, he will name as high commissioner ell and Felt managed to get of the Philippine WMC Director past a guard and found elves Paul McNutt and Supreme Court in the room with Dewey tl Justice Frank Murphy both are small group of newsmer iy to go. If Murphy takes it pro-Dewey papers velt will nominate Judge S:m; Abruptly De stopped an to th preme Court There was a moment of . Liberal French Catholic writer assed silence. Dewey's face turned Jacques Maritain is scheduled to crimson. Finally Felt spoke up. the new French Ambassador to the *“I hope we're not e ra Vatican Germans are all anyone,” he said. “We just the trying to escape from the threat- we'd drop over. W heard the ed Nazi homeland. Reports from Guverfmr is meeti ¥ the bon, Madrid, Stockholm and press Berne reveal hundreds of Germans The silence conti the WYying to crash the frontier to get chill spreading like freeze OUt of Germany before the Allies 5. ed fruit ove! The Nazis are so anyone, | that they are even trying ,* said Felt standing and walking toward the door, At this Paul Lockweod, De secretary, whose press nlntu.“ up to | de the French and English that Hitler and Stalin have concluded a secret armistice. Berlin | radio i made a special broadeast us in the Philippines, he is you. He Faculty, School Board Members is America.” | the Douglas Mayor and City Coun- - e cilmen, Dr. James C. Ryan, Marcus|® © o o @ o o o o o Jensen, A. J. Balog, Albert E. e TIDES TOMORROW Goetz and Guy Russo, will be e i Y guests of the Deuglas Public School j® High Tide 5:13a. m—173 ft. at a party in henor of Douglas’ o Low Tide 11:3¢a.m— 03 ft. popular Basketball Coach, M. J.| High Tide 17:38 p. m.—15.1 ft. Gem.ney, who is leaving soon Ior Low Tide 23:43p.m.— 1.2 ft. 5 () Crossword Puzzle Jz A ACROSS 29. Portions of L adpi curves Wi 22, Floating with i the current 8. Attendanton 9% R°I“’l‘1‘;“;‘é“’;“' Cloopatra g5 faionaat 12. American 15 1dfand in tne Indian egean 13. Faithful Directed pro- 14, Anatomical " . Biblical king Vst " Rescued 15. Legume - Bohishea 16. ot~ price, pill 17. Send forth Light carriage 18, Building for Bones Ho S S oo Solution Of Yesterday's Puzzle 20. Ce C 53. Enormous 3 Goverhe, 51, Observe 78 Seaweed DOWN - Bovine antmal 69 Notsomuch 1. Habitual . Opposite of 60. lllfihl(‘l‘ Of! drinker o Tunrvl:e:h”x‘;xr. 'ru;n g 2. Mexican corn ' 7 perial €1. Spread for meal mush standard drying 3. Pattern 4. Run aground 5. Made believe 6. Motor cary colloq. 7. Prophets 8 Repeating 9. Causing to re- member . Dismounted Feed to the full Contends . Married woman (et e et i 20 YEARS AGO ©i's empire FEERU‘\RY 16, 1925 In Washington, D. C., George A. Parks, making a report on his General Land Office work in Alaska, was notified of his appointment by President Calvin Coolidge to be Governor of Alaska succeeding Gov. Scott C. Bone, who declined reappointment. Parks was surprised but | said he would accept Wrangell and Sitka reported plenty of herring for halibut bait and the Juneau fishing fleet was leaving for one of the two towns to load up. l¢ i H In a blinding blizzard, the second relay of dog teams reached Nome ‘wiih serum for diphtheria suffers, One new case had been reported. A. Van Mavern, broker, arrived on the Admiral Rogers from Southeast | | Miss Hannah Lonsdale had accepted a position in the office of ’At?omm H. L. Faulkner. She was a recent arrival from Seattle. " Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Bartholomew and son arrived here from Ketchikan. | ‘ch Bartholomew was the former Laura McLeod of Juneau. | High, 33; low, 30; y DAL S e m‘mw"v -Daily Lessons in English % 1. oroon || WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “It was him who told me about the show.” Say, “It was HE who told me about the show.” OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Caffeine. Pronounce kaf-e-in, in ADD, E as in ME unstressed, I as in ILL, accent first syllable. OFTEN MISSPELLED: Cession (a yielding). Session (a sitting). SYNONYMS: Impetuous, eager, precipitate, headlong, WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: DEBACLE; a violent disruption; rout. “When his plans miscarried the resulting debacle eliminated the politician from the race for office.”. MODERN ETIQUETTE Q. How can a guest test the breeding of a family and determine whether the family is worth cultivating? A. Probably the real test is the manners of the children. If the child is well-behaved, if he waits until the guest is served before eating, A as by ROBERTA LEE while others are tdlking, it reflects good breeding. Q. If a woman is eating in a restaurant, would it be all right for her to place her purse and gloves on the corner of the table? A. No; she should hold them in her lap. Q. Is it necessary to acknowledge an invitation to a luncheon? A. Yes, always, and promptly e 2t et |.00K and LEARNA C. GORDON 1. What is the smallest flowering plant? 2. Where is the world’s largest iron mine? 3. Who was the first woman to sit in the House of Representatives? | 4. Has the Russian government employed any American pilots dur- the present war? What States have workmen’s compensation laws? ANSWERS: 1. The smallest known is the Wolffia, named for the physician and botanist Johann Wolff. It is found fleating on the surface of quiet ponds and is smaller than the head of an ordinary pin. 2. 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