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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-08
By JACK sTINNETT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8-The new Congress is Americas mine-field There are potential explosions al- most any way you turn. But one that is almost certain to come of is the proposal to black out 1922 personal income taxes and start over on a pay-as-you-go basis. Storm center of this proposal is the Carlson bill, now all ready in committee pigeon-holes in both the House and Senate and assured of immediate action be- cause both chambers are aware that some thing must be done be- fore March 15--if anything is to be done at all.
 Rep. Frank Carlson tR. Kans) {, in introducing the bill in the House, 7mphasized his debt to Beardsley Ruml, New York City financier, author of the "Ruml plan" Senator Capper introduced the same bill ir the Senate. The Capper- Carlson bill
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METzD0RF,
 GEB0 A R E
 DOWN TRAIL
Taken fo Kefehikan and HospifaIized-R d-Remark-
 able Rescue Work

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. B.
 Robert Gebo and Dewey Metz dorf, Gillian plane crash survivors. were brought down from the. sur vivor's camp to the beach arriving at 4.30 o'clock Sunday afternoon, were immediately placed aboard a Coast Guard cutter and brought to Ketchikan shortly after 12 o'clock this morning.
 Gabo and Metzdorf were taken to the Coast Guard Sick Bay, which is the most modern hospital in Alaska.
 Mrs. MetZdorf arrived here and was waiting for the cutter bring ing her husband from Boca de Quadra. When the Coast Guard Commandant, who flew to the scene informed her that her hus- band was safe, Mrs. Metzdorf wept and was oyerjoyed She said: T knew he would come through all right"
 Gebo and Metzdorf were not in- formed of Pilot Gillams death. but Cutting and Tippits were told and they broke down and cried. Both Cutting and Tippits have about full ly recovered from their narrowing experiences and are improving so rapidly they are able to eat full meals.
 Men Brought Gut
 Metzdorf was brought out to the beach from the camp on a wire stretcher tied to cedar log sled
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Others in the party labored two hours in sleet and pitch dark and succeeded in freeing the girl, but there was no attempt at amputa- tion. She was greatly weakened by loss of blood and lay in the plane and died at 6.30 o'clock the second day.
 Cutting said q was talking to the girl two minutes before the end. She knew she was going to die, but was calm"
 Tippits said T covered her with her coat. She was the bravest and spunkiest person have ever known. She laughed little sometimes and she was always calm, never fear ful. Anyone of us would have glad ly given his life to help her.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-08

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 - Secre- tary of Navy Frank Knox, at con- ference with the newsmen late last Saturday afternoon said that on last Thursday in the North Pacific, five enemy float planes bombed American positions in the north west Aleutians but no damage was done.
 Thursday night, in retaliation, Li- berator heavy bombers and Mitchell
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Frank Polk Passes Away
 In New York
Former Underseueiary of State, Wilson Regime,
 Dies on Sunday

NEW YORK, Feb. 8-Frank Polk. Il. Acting Secretary of State dur Ing the Wilson Administration, died here Sunday. He was Under Sec retary of State from 1915 to 1920.
 Polk was active in his law firm until last week
 After the last World War. Polk who was native of New York City headed the American delegation of the Paris Peace Conference when President Woodrow Wilson and the Secretary of State returned to the United States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-08
TW0-H0UR AIR FIGHT
 E STAGED

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Feb. 8-Sixty addi- tional dead Japs were counted in New Guinea Sunday, 39 after skir- mishes following Saturdays big air battle over the Wau area in which fl Jap bompers and fighters were shot down or seriously damaged.
 Of the large defending force or P-38s, P-39s, and P-40s, not one was lost, no crewmen were injured and only a few Allied planes were damaged in the two hour series of battles over the mountains be- tween Wau and the sea.
 Related reports tell of machine gunning of two 50-foot barges, car lying about 75 Japs in Rieback bay on the north side of New Britian Island Saturday Casualties on the Earges are reported as substantial !"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-08

LOS ANGELES, Calif Feb. B. Movie actor Errol Flynn has been acquitted on the three counts of itatutory rape by a jury of nine women and three men. The jury returned the verdict after deliber- ating B hours.
 Flynn was accused of intimacles with two teen-age girls, Peggy Satt- erlee and Betty Hansen.
 Flynn sat tensely, puffing cig- arette during the half hour be- tween the time the jury announced it had reached verdict and when it returned to the court room.
 Thus ended a 2l-day trial, and one of the most dramatic heard in a Los Angeles court in recent history.
 Flynn was visibly nervous when the jury room buzzer sounded twice indicating a verdict had been reach ed. He lighted one cigarette after another
 The tense moment came when Mrs. Ruby Anderson, jury fore man, walked over and handed the verdict to Bailiff Fred Moxom, who in turn took it and handed it to Judge Leslie.
 It was death still quiet as the verdict of acquittal on the first count was read and then an up- roar of cheers burst above the court room
 The other two verdicts of &C.,
 
 lCop+ip,,ad or, Dooa aJ,brao1
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Senator O. D. Cochran, President of the Senate, turned the gavel over to Senator Hjalmar Nordale this morning and took the floor to strongly admonish an all too ob- vious attempt to whitewash the proposed investigation of the Ter ritorial Department of Labor.
 The veteran legislator from Nome took the floor shortly after the second reading of the resolution setting up the machinery for the investigation was interrupted by Senator N. R. Walker and Senator Frank s. Gordon.
 Walker asked that the resolution be amended to provide that the Judiciary Committees of both Hous- es make the investigation. The Judiciary Committee, of which Walker is member, already had referred the measure out with only the recommendation that the ap-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-08
Four Jap Planes Are
 Shot Down in Fighfs
 nAIeufians, Report

medium bombers with fighter es- eorts, attacked Jap positions at Kis- ka, and three of five Japanese float planes of the type of Zeros, which sought to intercept them, were shot down. All U. S. planes returned to their bases.
 Also, on last Thursday, Secretary Knox said an American plane shot down Jap plane during recon naiSsance mission.
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KNOX GIVES VIEWS ABOUT
 NEXT BATTLE
Declares Only Preliminary Skirmishing Taking
 Place, SoIomons

WASHINGTON, Feb. - Both Japanese and American air and surface forces have suffered mod crate losses in the developing new battle in the Solomons, Secretary of Navy Prank Knox told the news men at a conference late last Sat- urday afternon.
 Knox said that so far there is nothing specific to indicate the ex- act Jap objective in renewing vio- lent battling throughout the Sol- omons area and added that the size of the force the enemy might even-
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ATTEMPT 10
 WHITEWASH LABOR PROBE
Cochran Admonishes Al. tempt to Sideira(k
 Investigation

BULLETIN-The Senate this afternoon passed the resolution calling for an investigation of the Department of Labor, amending it, however, to make the investigating committee con sist of the Judiciary Committees of both Houses, and also speci- flying that hearings be public.
 The measure must now go to the House for consideration. President o. D. Cochran called the amendment hand picking the jury"
 The resolution was passed un- animousiy. The am e n d ment passed by 6-2 vote, Cochran and Stangroom voting against it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-08
pay-As-You-Go Tax
 Explained !; 5tinnef
 Gives Straight Dope

(Whether it passes or doesn't, you are going to hear a lot in the next two months or so about the pay-aS-yOu-g in- come tax bill. In series of three articles, Jack Stinnett, Washington correspondent for the Empire, explains what it is. why it has been proposed, and the objections being raised to it. Here is the first.)
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Chiaroscuro, an early method of color printing from woodcuts, means clear obscure"
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. . . . . . DIMOUT TIMES

Dimout begins tonight . . at 5.35 o'clock. .
 Dimout ends tomorrow . Q tTuesday) at sunrise at BAT . . am. . Dimous begins Tuesday at . . 5:39 pm. .
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General scene in the Los Angeles court where Errol Flynn, dashing hero of the movies, was on trial charged with three counts of statutory rape, is shown above. At the left are the two girls who brought the charges against the movie actor. Peggy La Rue Sat terlee, Is, Hollywood entertainer, is at left, and Betty Hansen, IT, year-old Lincoln, Neb., schoolgirl, at right In the top picture. Flyrn is seated right, foreground; Miss Satteriee is at left, background. and Miss Hansen second from right.
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04
Fight on Subsidies
Breaks out Anew

WASHINGTON, July 3. tUP)-
The fight over the administrations
plan to roll back meat, butter and
coffee prices through subsidy pay
ments to professors broke out anew
on the Senate floor today when two
farm state Senators introduced
proposal requiring that food subsi-
dies be paid only to producers.
The proposal was offered by Sem
ators Joseph c. O'Mahony, Demo-
crat, Wyoming. and Hugh A. Butler,
Republican, Nebraska, an an
amendment to a new bill to con-
tinue for six months life of the
Commodity Credit Corporation.
Their amendment was laid on the
table" as future business subject
to Senate action at any time.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04
Resistance Strong
To yonk Troops

southeas%ey: end of New Georgia
There was no immediate indication
If whether American troops on
3endova were planning direct at
ack by assault boats on Munda.
The daily communique of Gen.
Douglas Macarthur, in supreme
command of the newly Of
fensives, reported that the ground
situation in the Solomons was "un-
3hanged' The destruction by Al
led fighters of IA enemy fighters
and eight diye-bombers over Rem
1ova island was reported, bolstering
the two-day toll of Japanese air.
craft to l23.
At Bairoko anchorage, north of
Mcnda, the communique said. Al
lied medium bombers with fighter
escort sank an enemy cargo YES
sol of 1900 tons.
The Japanese retreated in dis
order the spokesman said, but the
scale of the fighting or casualties
We're not disclosed. Contact be-
tween the Australians and American
On the New Guinea SeacoaSt will
permit supplies for the Australian
sorces to be moved by sea instead
If over jungle trails and will per-
nit coordinated operations against
Salamaua.
Other Allied patrols were report
ed active in the Bobdubi area, less
than four miles southwest of Sal
amaua, and news was received of
sharp ground clashes at Mt. Oro-
dubi a mile and a half northwest
of Komiatcm. in the same general
area. Results of the clashes were
NOT known
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NSOIllllllsSu lIOill IdSC e.
tain spurs in the Francisco rive,
sector, from which the town of Sal
amaua can be seen.
There was no indication whether
the Allied patrol that reached the
Bobdubi sector, four miles from Sal
amaua, remained there or retired.
The Japanese have a number of
strong machine-gun posts and ar
tilley position and the wild, noun
famous country between the Fran
cisco river mountain spurs and Sal
amaua and it was assumed that
hard fighting lay ahead in that Sec
tor. The mountain spurs protect
the Komiatum trail on the west
ern side, nearest the Japanese.
AT the eastern end of the Allied
offensive arc below Babaul. thers
was little news information regard
ing progress against Munda, on New
Georgia island.
Washington sources reported the
japanese were rushing aerial REIN
forcements into the battle area)
Details were lacking on the prog
ress of the American push up the
southeastern arm of New Georgia
island toward Munda. 80 miles away,
but it was known that American
guns mounted on Rendova island,
five milees across a shallow chan
mel from Munda, were subjecting
the enemy to heavy bombardment.
Reports of strong enemy resist
ance indicated the Japanese may
have diverted some of their garri-
son from the MCnda area in an at
tempt to halt the American jungle
drive from Viru harbor at the
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04
$4,000 Miners out
Of West Penn Pits
BY UNITED PRESS

Picketing in the western Pennsyl-
vania soft coal fields retarded the
back-to-work movement among coal
miners Saturday and approximately
$4,000 workers still were idle despite
pleas by government and United
Mine Workers officials to end the
costly strike.
Rowing bands of pickets stopped
miners from entering four pits of
the H. c. Frick Coke Co.. U. S.
Steel subsidiary, in Fayette county.
and there were reports of plans for
further picketing in two other big
western districts of the Pennsyl-
vania soft coal fields.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04
Milk Board Will
Meet in Capital

SACRAMENTO, July 8. (UP)-
members of California milk produc-
er control boards will meet here
July u with state and federal Of
ficials TO discuss possible remedies
for the states dairy feed shortage
Director of Agriculture w. j. Cecil
announced today
They will discuss a program sug-
gested by Los Angeles dairymen
which includes asking the Commod-
ity Credit Corporation and the
state Farm Production Council to
buy enough feed for the dairy in
dustry to maintain milk produc-
ton.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04
RENEW SERVICES

|
non-essential driving.
RENEW SERVICES
3 AS q result of equalizing civil
ian distribution over a greater area,
many essential services IN the east
curtailed by the existing shortages
could be renewed.
To end constant pickering among
officials and ensuing confusion. Mel
son negotiated an agreement with
the Office of Price Administration.
the Office of Defense Transporta-
ton, and the Petroleum Administra-
tion for war which spells out their
functions in handling the petroleum
products problem.
Rationing operations will conti-
nue. to be handled by OPA, and
there is set up for the first time q
petroleum rationing policy COM
mittee headed by Price Administra-
tor PrentiSs M. Brown. The group
consists of representatives of five
agencies-WPB, OPA, ODT. PAW
and the War Food Administration
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04
Japs Retire When
US. Ships Attack
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pushing up the coast toward Num-
da.
The loss of 123 planes III the first
two days of combat near Munda
was believed to have virtually ex-
hausted the enemys air concentra-
ton there. Artillery and air bomb
ardment probably has rendered the
airfield useless.
But the japanese still have good
fields within easy operation dis
tance of Munda-at Kajili and at
Kieta, both on Bougainville island
northwest of New Georgia. 1t is to
those bases that the enemy is be-
lieved to be rushing new airplanes.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04
Widow of Marine
Pilot weds Again

SAN DIEGO, July 3. (UP)-Mrs.
Lotion r. Henderson, widow of the
Marine Corps major for whom Hen
derson Field on Guadalcanal was
named. today disclosed her mar
riae June Is to 1t. Robert w. Con-
rad of Minneapolis.
Mrs. Henderson drives a truck at
San Diego Naval Air station and
met Lieutenant Conrad on the job.
Henderson flew his dive bomber
down the stack of japanese war
ship in the battle of Midway.
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distribution. The midwestern supply
should be bolstered by eliminating
non-essential driving.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04
Large Holiday
Crowds Reported

NEW YORK, July 3. UP)-
Transportation officials reported
record breaking crowds at railroad
and bus terminals today as the
Fourth of July weekend began, de-
spite pleas from the Office of De-
fense Transportation against un-
necessary holiday travel.
The Grand Central Terminal had
its busiest day in history yesterday
as arriving and departing travellers
filled the station to capacity. Penn
synvania station and bus terminals
also anticipated new records before
the weekend was over
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04
Largest Raid on
Boot Hee! Made
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parts OF western Europe Friday
night but dropped only one bomb.
British announcement set the rec
ord bomb tonnage the last 20 days
of June Is $4,000 tons, 10000 of
which hit German"'s industrial
Ruhr.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04
Corn Shortage Is
Studied by Govt

WASHINGTON. July 3. UP)-
Food officials today studied a COM
bination corn subsidy and hog
price control program as a mex,
move to break the critical market
shortage of corn.
House action in sustaining a pres
idential veto of the subsidy prohibi-
ton in the Commodity Credit Cor
poration bill freed the administra-
ton to go ahead with a subsidy pro-
gram favored by food officials.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04
Marine Raiders
On New Georgia
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no immediate opposition. The sec
ond wave brought ashore the sup
plies and ammunition.
The Marines then began digging
their slit trenches against possible
bombing, establishing a defensive
ring and organizing patrols. Walk
er said their beach position was
only few thousand yards from the
nearest Japanese units. Away from
the beach, Walker said, New Geor-
gia was mostly dense jungle. Near
them was a 2000-foot hill.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-04
Ickes Is Doomed As Gas Rationer

and Brown must consult with
them before making decisions.
In cases of disagreement, Browns
decisions may be appealed to Mel
son.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Lights Tell Chemists
To Co and to Stop

A green light means Ego" and a
red light means stop" for more
than traffic these days. Glass chem
lists at the Pennsylvania State col
1ege have made new kinds Of
glasses, which glow sometimes with
q green light, sometimes with a red
light, telling them whether to con-
tinue or stop their experiments.
A green glow means that the
molecules Of the glass have high
energy. he says, and are closely held
together in strong network. A
red glow means that the molecules
have little eneSgy, and that the basic
network is loosely held together.
Fluorescence thus becomes a tool
which indicates to the glass chemist
and manufacturer the basic struc-
ture Of the glass, as well as its
chemical composition. Manganese
CLOVIS with a red and green light,
depending on how loosely or tightly
1t is held in the network Of mole
cules, but other minerals and chem
icals glow with blue, violet, pink,
yellow, and orange lights.
, Using fuorescence as a key to
glass analysis is new, and is more
sensitive in many respects than the
former methods of chemical analy-
sis or x-ray analysis. ;. ~. -
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Metal for Skull

Experimental studies indicate that
the metal tantalum is satisfactory
material for the repair Of defects Of
the skull, Lieut.. tj.g.) Robert H.
Pudenz, medical corps, U. S. naval
reserve, reports. Tantalum is blu
ish white metal resembling steel in
its physical properties and glass in
its chemical characteristics. 1t has
an atomic weight about three times
that of iron. LII.
Lieutenant Pudenz says that 1T
has the desirable qualities of nom
corrosiveness, inertness in tissue,
nonabsorbability, absence Of toxic
(poisonous) ingredients and MALE
ability. This last quality enables the
surgeon to form the fiat tantalum
sheet to the desired contour at the
operating table. In view of these
characteristics, the use of this metal
should be considered in the repair
of many Of the cranial defects which
will inevitably occur as result Of
skull and brain injury in the present
war, and particularly in those re-
pairs in which a satisfactory cos
metic result is of utmost irnpor-
lance"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Canadian Railway Forms
Largest Line on Continent

The Canadian National railways
form the largest railway system on
the North American continent. It
has $500 miles Of road, a length
almost sufficient to grid the earth,
at the equator, with great band OF
rails, ties, ballast and bridges.
These $4,000 miles Of road form
a far-fung steel network that touches
virtually every city and town Of
importance throughout Canada. and
over it, by day and by night, move
the sinews Of war and the commerce
of the nation.
International in its scope Of opera
ton, the Canadian National system,
through its United States lines,
serves many big American centers
Of industry including Chicago, Buff
falo, Detroit, Flint, Pontiac, Lans-
ing, Bay City, Saginaw, Grand Rap
ids, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo. To-
ledo, Port Huron, Duluth and nu-
merous points in New England, in
Guiding Portland, Maine.
The United States railways COM
prised within the Canadian National
system include the Grand Trunk
Western railroad. Central Vermont
railway, and Duluth, Winnipeg and
Pacific railway.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Drawings Tell Bomber
Crew They're Interned

STOCKHOLM.-A series OF pic
ture drawings gave seven members
Of q disabled British bomber crew
their first hint that they were going
to wind up in a Swedish internment
camp. - ..
When the four Canadians and
three Britishers parachuted from
their plane after losing their
course following the March q raid
on Berlin they landed in an area
where no one spoke English Fifty
Swedish home guardsmen took the
fliers into custody. - -
One member of the Raj crew
drew a map of Sweden and Norway
to learn in which country they had
landed. A home guardsnan pointed
to Sweden. Pleased that he wasn't
in Nazi-occupied Norway, the fiier
drew lines showing he wanted to fly
back to England.
The home guardsman, however.
drew picture Of barbed wire
fence around Sweden to indicate the
men would be informed. They under.
stood.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1943-08-19
Church Adds
Worker to Staff

Under plan which is statewide
the Methodist churches of this re-
gion expect to have number of
special workers assisting the pas
tors in the very near future. Rev.
John B. Coan, pastor of the First
Methodist congregation announc-
ed the rival of Miss Betty Jean
Thompson of Eugene, Oregon, as
the first of these.
Miss Thompson has been pas
toral assistant of the Yakima Meth
odists for the past year or more
and has had special training in
this field of work. She is also an
experienced newswoman. Until
the second worker has arrived to
assist in the Pasco and Kennewick
parishes Miss Thompson will di-
vide her time between the two,
A major part of the time of
these special workers will be de-
voted to the adjacent camps and
among the new people of the COM
munity. However they will also
assist the pastors in office and
other parish duties. According to
DR.. Friedrich w. Peterson, super
intendent of the district, there are
to be about four special workers
in the region, including Richland
and Hartford.