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The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-02-05

Island. Alaska. was presented with a Navy seal ring for ranking sec oud in a class of ITO men graduated from the U S. Naval training school for radiomen on the Uniyer- sity or Chicago campus last month.
 ThieIe maintained an average ot g9 for the G-Week course. and has been promoted to petty officer rat .aE a# radioman. third class. He a. k.ait# assignment 10 active duty.
 He attended chemawa school in sal-a. Ore and the school at Craig. Alaska. He enlisted in the Navy last August at Milwaukee
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-02-05
BODY OF PLANE PILOT
 RECOVERED FROM CHANNEL

JUNEAU-Federal authorities to- day studied the motor of the sal vaged Don Glass plane which was removed from the waters of Gas tineau channel Saturday. The plane crashed January 20. taking Pilot Glass to his death. A forehead bruise indicated Glass was knocked unconscious. thus was unable to escape before the plane sank.
 Mail pouches taken from the wreekage were turned over to the Post Office Department.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-02-05

THE WRAEGELL SENTINEL
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-02-05

The following excerpts are taken from the address deliver ed to a joint session of the Ter ritorial Legislature in Juneau following the opening of the 6O-day session. The actual text was about tw1oe as long and lack of space prevents printing 1t in full
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-02-05
.EGALNOTICE

IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA. WRANGELL PRECINCT. FIRST DIVISION.
 NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN hat tha undersigned has been duly ap- pointed eXeeutrlx of the estaI af Antime Lemieux. deceased. and that #1 persons having claims aga snst said estate should present than With the necessary vouchers. to Ger tha Christianson. at her plaea O. business on Front Street Wrau ell Alaska within six months from ths date of publication hereof.
 Dated. Wrange1 Alaska. Janu- ary g, 1943.
 Adele Lemieax Exeeutrix of the Estate of Anane Lemieux. deceased First publication January Is. I9Ha. Last publication February 5. IaIa.
 
 You Saw It h The Sentinel
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-02-05
Governor Warns Present
 Legislature That AIaSka'S
 Future Is Its Responsibility

loo low.
 A corresponding situation. all though on a smaller scale, applies to the pay of clerical employees in various Territorial government of fiees.
 Chapters Al and 5I of the 1885 secession laws aggravate this prob lem. They forbid any employe whose average salary is $200 a month to engage in additional employment, and forbid employment of a hus- band or wife when either earns more than S200 a month. These two laws, whatever may have been their value. are now tying the gov ernment's hands.
 If the legislature decides that new sources of revenue must be uneov- cred, the method is a problem for the legislature. Tn my message two years ago I went comprehensiYely into the whole matter or territorial taxes. l do not wish o ake your time by repeating my views I felt then, and I feel now, that the pro- gram proposed was thoroughly sound and desirable. Not only has my view not changed. but I feel that the situation that has develop ed has increasingly Justified my criticism of our existing tax patch work.
 Propety Tax
 have one additional comment concerning the general property tax which I proposed in my Iast mes sage. a tax designed to add no burden whatsoever to present tax payers in incorporated towns. but merely 10 reach those who have all ways escaped this tax by building outside of incorporated town limits Apart from the revenue-raising as- pects Of this tax, there is an inn portant reform element. 4 nominal tax would bring back into use the patented mining and agricultural land, the owners of which have dis appeared. This is not a new idea but 1t is even more pertinent now than previously because after the war many of the soldiers now here and others, will come back to live here. While the boys in uniform are fighting, those who stay behind should be planning what may be done to help re-establish the sold iers in ciYill life.
 Sales Tax
 Also, in my previous message Ii made no reference to a sales tax. Il considered then and consider now that a sales tax, or indeed any form of consumption tax, is thor oughly undesirable for Alaska. Al sales tax in Alaska would be par- ticularly obnoxious and indefen- sible because it would scarcely touch those who come up here for a brief season each year merely to extract wealth from Alaska and take it outside with them. The highly prosperous seasonal workers from the states, in the canneries or on the fishing grounds, or on the con- struction jobs, whose wants are largely supplied for them, would pay next to nothing in sales tax.
 What Might Have Been
 shall not detain you long to tell you what might have been. Two years ago the Territory was at it's all-time apex of prosperity. Gold had reached the unprecedented fig ure of s26,O00, 1000. Salmon was nor nal The greatest construction pro- gram for any part of the United States was under way, bringing in- to the Territory tens of millions Of dollars, which in turn spread out to pass through the tills of mer- -
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-02-05

chants. motion picture houses banks, restaurants. liquor stores. to every trade and profession. No part of this, under our rigid and antiquated tax system. went into the Territorial treasury And the revenues that might have been se- cured would have more than solved all the Territory's fiscal problems for the duration.
 Now two years have passed. Gold has folded up. Salmon packing is eurtailed. We are probably midway in our great construction program tens of millions have been spent in these two years. gone for tax pur- poses beyond recovery. But still more millions will be spent The economic situation of the Territory. though not quite SO good in pros peet as two years ago, Is in actual fly still very good.
 The Future
 Two years hence. when the legis- lature meets again. there will be no income from gold from the pre- ceding year gold revenue will be a memory. The salmon industry will probably remain eurtailed as now. The last echoes or nammering on the construction program too will have faded out The outside con- tractors will have returned to the states, and so will their workers. The high scale Of wages which has made everybody rich in the last two years will be no more. The ees- sation of all production but of war necessities will have reduced the stocks of merchants to the barest essentials
 All of these considerations face
The Wrangell sentinel., 1943-02-05

You Saw It In The Sentinel
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-24
president URGED
TO KEEP MARSHALL
Service Publication Wants
Chief OF Staff Re-
nominated

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.- B -
The Army and Navy Journal to
night urged President Roosevelt OF
renominate General George c..
Marshall as chief of staff in order
to show the world that Marshall
is not to be transferred to some
other position.
The unofficial but authoritative
service publication said in an edi-
torial:
Because his term as chief of
staff has expired, General Marsh
all is in office by virtue of the
pleasure of the President. This is
permissible under the National De-
Tense act.
"But is occures to us that to SNOW
anew his confidence in this Off
GER and to indicate he is not to
be transferred, the President
should transmit his denomination
to the Senate. That cheInber would
confirm promptly and unanimous
ly, and again our allies and the
world would be or notice that our
chief of staff speaks not only for
the Army but for a determined
and united nation"
Some time ago it was reported
that Marshall was slated to head
the forthcoming invasion OF West
ern Europe, pct m or e recently
General Dwight D. Eisenhower has
been mentioned for that post, with
Marshall se1d to be in line for a
heightened staff position. Other re-
cent versions are that Marshall
may command the invasion from
Washington as headquarters, OF
that he may go to London to head
the Allied invasion forces after per-
fecting details Of lcbal strategy
here.
The Army md Navy Journal took
it for granted in its editorial to.
night that Marshall is not to be
transferred from the chief of staff
post at Washington.
ut is a matter of keen salts
faction to tie country no less thar
to the army, it SAID, that Gen
eral Marshall is to continue as
chief OF staff, and is not to be
transferred to London to assume
direction Of the operations in con-
nection with the establishment OF
a second front.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-24
BY WALTER LIPPMANN

For about sixty days the Con-
gross, which is now taking a re-
cess, has had fairly free hand
in dealing with affairs on the home
front. The President has made 10
serious attempt to lead Congress
except in support of the war, there
has been bipartisan majority o.
posed to the President; and ne
himself has been abroad, or busy
with the prepar ations for going
abroad.
No national policy on domestic
issues has thus far been sha geo
by Congress. On the contrary G on
gress has left for its holiday with
nothing decided on the interrelated
questions Of taxes, prices and
wage control, which are the pa a.
mount questions on the home
front. The recorli in fact is worse
than that: the net combined effect
Ut the actions of Congress has
been to threaten a breakdown OF
The whole wartime control OF i'll
flation. Congress has voted against
taxes and other measures to sta
billie; when Congress has voted
for anything, it voted for Increased
prices and increased wages. More
over, there has come from Con
gress a chorus of voices which
have in substance invited the PEG.
gle to complain and feel aggrie0ed
about, rather than to accept chee"-
fully and bear proudly the un-
avoidable Inconvenience and sac
r;fices Of war.
II IN practical matters this lead
er!ess Congress has been negative.
IN its moral example it hes been
simply deplorable - so deplorable
that there must be a prompt and
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-24
Finance COm'tee
Endorses Short Tax Bill

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. -R-
With firmest phrases, the Senaet
Finance committee today endorsed
as sensible an abbreviated $2,275,
10000 tax bill which finds Con-
gcess and the Treasury sharply in
dispute.
The report, filed during the holi-
day recess by Chairman George
O-Ga) declared the Budget Bure-
aus action in cutting $1,000, 000.-
oGG off the current years estimated
deficit influenced its decision to
seek less than one-fourth of the
SIC, 500, 900, 600 extra revenue Secre
tary Morgenthau requested.
''Your committee" the report
declared, was not convinced that
a sum as great as proposed by
the Treasury could equitably be
raised at this time IL the manner
suggested by the Treasury-that is
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-24
DRAFT, MANP0WER
AGENCIES SPLIT
Selective Service Is Sepa-
rated From VINO By
The President

WASHINGTON, Dec. % Up -
President Roosevelt, carrying out
Congress- directions, separated
Selective Service from the War
Manpower Commission tonight,
but he provided a link between
them.
He did this by making the Sc
lertfve Service director, Lewis
B. Hershey, member of the
manpower commission, and di-
recting him to consult with Man.
power Chairman Paul c. McNutt
on all matters relating to the clas-
sification or deferment of regis
trants which may affect " the
most effective utilization and mo-
Utilization of the nation"s man.
power
The president had served no.
tice at news conference that
he regarded a close liaison be-
tween the agencies as essential.
At that time he questioned the wis
dom of Congress mandate to pull
Selective Service out of VINO S
hands.
McNutt no longer has direct
supervision of the draft machin-
cry, but will still have voice in
its operation, since Hershey was
ordered to consult with him on all
matters necessary to assure that
the administration OF the Selec-
tive Service act is ''coordinated'
with the administration of Nc
Nuts manpower policies.
Officials said the future rela-
tioaship of the VINO and Selec-
tive Service was discussed by
manpoWer officials and Hershey
yesterday and the arrangement
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in the main, by higher rates of
individual income taxes
Further, the committee said it
looked for a taperirg off of gov
ernment war orders and a pros
rective increase in production of
goods for civilian use to narrow
the "inflationary gap'' about which
Treasury experts have been worry
ing vocally
Morgenthau has called the pend
ing measure worse than no bill
at all.
In discussing the liberalizing
amendments to the war contracts
renegotiation law amendments
which Morgenthau declared h d
the seed of national scandal"
the committee asserted the
changes which it voted are aimed
Continued on Page Six; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-24
Soviet Baltic Offensive
Called Very Significant

legions sto-med, or that it is ST.
berian troops now with the first
Baltic army which helped fend off
the German threat then.
The Siberians are among t h e
toughest winter fighters of the Red
armies. The fact trat they are
said to constitute large part of
the first Baltic army is additional
evidence that the battle Of the
Newell bulge and impending siege
of Vitebsk are the preliminaries of
the winter offensive toward which
events in Russia have been point
inc since Hitler's army b e o re
stalingrad was liquidated year
ago. . De-
sian successes in the months Of
never-ending attacks that h v e
Continued on Page Six; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-24
WORLD WILL HEAR
MESSAGE OF FDR
Greatest Radio Network
Will Carry Speech OF
President

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23- P -
Inc greatest network of interna-
'onal radio facilities ever organic
eo will carry President Roosevelt
aooress tomorrow to the far cor
hers Of the world.
Inc President will speak at 3
Pm, Eastern War Time, from his
hyde Park, N. Y, home. He is
expected to talk for about half
an hour and has announced that
ne will discuss the Teheran and
Calro conferences Of Allied war
leaders.
All domestic radio networks will
broadcast the address as will the
en'Ire British Broadcasting Cor
pofaton's system, the Australian
ana New Zealand networks, and
slatlons in Algiers, Palermo, Bari,
naples and India.
A BIC relay is planned to South
sslfca, the Atlantic, and the Mid.
Ie East, and arrangements are
eOAtemplated for the Leopoldville
,daon in central Africa to relay
me address to Iran.
lWenty-three American shor
wave stations will carry broadcast:
m'ehded primarily for members O.
Ae armed services in England
ireland, Iceland, North Africa, Cen
:, rai Africa, the Near East, China
tnola, and Australia. Short wav'
Sfoadcasts also will be beamed t.
me Dutch East Indies and the Phil
ppines.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-24
DAVIS PLANNING
CHRISTMAS RITES
Services Tonight To Gil
max Activities At Mill
tary Post

CAMP DAVIS, - Two Christmas
Eve religious services will cl-
max holiday activities at this anti
aircraft artillery training center,
when thousands of soldiers at this
post attend the camp-wide Protest
ant service at 10 Friday night, or
the Catholic solemn mass at mid
night.
Farnsworth Hall fittingly deco
rated for the Yuletide season, will
be the scene of both services, with
Protestant observance to be broad
cast over radio station WMFD,
Wilmington, from 10 until II on
Christmas Eve. Music for both
services will be furnished by camp
groups.
Proceeding the services many
units will held battery parties for
Christmas-tree trimming or deco
rating Of mess halls for the Christ
mas Day feast. The Camp Davis
Continued on Page Three; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-24
WEATHER
FORECAST

FORECAST
North Carolina - Fair and continued
cold Friday and Friday night. Tempera-
ture to IL western and northern por.
tions Friday night and Is to 20 in SOUTH
eastern portion. Saturday partly cloudy
and not quite so cold.
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Meteorological data for the "a hours
ending 1880 m yesterday:
Temperature
1870 m Al; 7:30 a m AZ; 1880 m
"a; 80 m 80. Maximum So; minimum
80; mean AZ; normal 40.
Humidity
l 80 m 10; 7 80 a m SIS; 80 p m "a;
1870 p m 98.
Precipitation
Total for the "a hours ending 1880 p
m 0.03 inches. Total since the first Of
the month 1877 inches.
Tides For Today
From the Tide Tables published by
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
High Low
Wilmington - 1928 m 203 m
TAO m 2:42 p m
Masonboro Inlet IA m II :37 a m
5:21 p m 11:42 p m
Sunrise 7:15 a m sunset 500 D m;
moonrise 4.25 a; moonset 3:19 p.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayetteville
s.03 feet.
Continued on Page Six; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-24
Allied Bon1bers Plaster
The Rocket Gun Coast
Area Is Bombed For Fourth Successive 5
Our Officials Regard Possible We s
AS No Bluff Axis Air Base Alta

LONDON, Dec. 2s.-R-Amer
can and British bombers struck to.
Gay at mysterious targets in the
Pas De Calais area of France,
blasting for the fourth successive
day a strip of territory now term
&c the crockett gun COAST in be.
lief that it harbors installations Of
the Wanted new Nazi "secret Wea-
pcn.''
The Allies are officially silen.
on the nature of these raids, blu.
the London press, on the basis
OF neutral reports that the Ger
mans were installing rocket guns
III this Axis territory closest to
England, has informally named tive
area after the high-powered rocket
gun it is said to shelter for as
ssult on Britain.
Bomb-carrying American Thun-
derbolt fighters attacked the i'm
rortatn German air base near the
town of Gilze and Rijen in south
elm Holland, while the norther.,
French targets of Raj medium
and light bombers included
camp near Merlimont, a small
coastal village 10 miles south of
Bculogne, and two railway jun :
tlons, it was announced. One Me.
dlum bomber was missing from
these operations.
British coastal guns after 10
pm. pumped shells for an hour
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-24
ACTION NECESSARY
Three OF Five Operating
Brotherhoods Reject
Proposal
OUTLOOK IS DULLED
Chances For Christmas
Present Are Not Very
Bright
OUTLOOK IS DULLED

WASHINGTON. Dec. 23-- up -
President Roosevelt has ordered
Attorney General Biddle to pre-
pare the necessary legal p apers
to the governments
taking over of the railroads, now
threatened with nation wide
strike.
This was MADE known at the
White House tonight shortly after
word was received that three Of
the five railroad operating broth.
erhoods had rejected tn Presi.
dents offer to arbitrate the rail
wage controversy and after the
President had explored a similar
dispute with representative of the
Is incorporating unions.
Two Unions Agree
The rail mana gements and two
operating unions agreed to his ar
bltration.
1t was emphasized that the or.
der to the attorney general only
was to prepare" the necessary
papers looking to government seiz.
ure of the railroads.
Attorney General Biddle's office
declined comment. A spokesman
sad there would be no announce.
ment of the Justice Departments
activities. following up the prest.
dental order, before morning.
Not Very Hopeful
The move indicated the Presi.
Gent was not very hopeful about
the situation after day Of con.
fe, ences with the carriers and the
brotherhood chiefs.
Government operation would not
he a new experience for the rail-
roads; a Federal agency was in
charge of them during the frs:
World War.
With tonight's developments, the
chances for the nations Christ.
mas present. that the President
had asked-assurance by the noli-
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-24
Soviiets Force
Anew Breach
In Nazi Lines
Red Baltic Army Drives To
Within IL Miles OF
Vitebsk
MODEST CLAIMS MADE
Conmunique Tells OF Bit
ter Fighting In The
Zhlobin Area

LONDON, Friday, Dec. 24.-tR-
rbp Russians have forced a new
breach in German lines before
vitebsk. Berlin admitted today,
while Moscow dispatches said the
Soviet Baltic army had battered
n within u miles of that Nazi
fortress as its big winter offensive
entered its 18th day
The Soviet midnight communi.
me made more modest claims, as
/, reported that units of Gen.
Ivan Bagramiaa's forces had cap
tred several populated places and
additional advantageous posi-
lions" Eight hundred Germans
we're killed in the days fighting
in which one unit crossed a water
barrier, taking the Germans by
surprise aid sending them into
bastv retreat without their equip
ment.
Bitter Fighting
The cominunique, recorded by
The Soviet monitor, also told of
exceedingly bitter fighting in the
Zhlobin area of southern White
Russia where the Germans were
counter attacking fifty six Ger
man tanks and $500 Nazi soldiers
we're killed and "dispite great
numerical superiority the Ger
mans did not achieve success. :"
In the Korosrel area OF the Kiev
bulge here the Germans were al
50 counter- attac king IS miles west
ot the Ukrainlan capital, the enc
my lost q tanks and 300 men after
two separate attacks which were
SUCCESSFULLY repulsed-
j Tie Russian announcement of
mr several populated places"
captured IN the Vittbsk area came
after announcements of advances
at the rate Of 100 towns and ham,
lets daily until Wednesday when
the rate dropped to 90
The Berlin broadcast said that
north and southeast of Vitebsk
the Russians in heavt fluctuating
battles, succeeded in preaching
our lines. At some points heavy
battles are still in progress.
Col Ernst Won Hammer, Berlin
radio commentator, said in anoth-
Continued on Page Six; Col. -
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-24
Walter Lippmann Says:
Congress Must Be Led
By A Strong President

thorough restora ton of the nation
al purpose and the public spi1i:
in order to sustain our people in
the tremendous ordeal of battle
which the winter and the spring
viii bring.
These are hard wards. But few
careful observers Of the Washing
ION scene will dispute them. They
have nothing to do with party poll
tics, the next election, the fourth
term, the New Deal, Mr.. Willkie,
Governor Dewey. the old guard:
in fact those who feel, and I hap
zen to be one of them, that the
time is at hand for a change Of
administration, ere among those
who feel most deeply how intoler-
ally dangerous it would be if this
destructive paralysis of govern
ment is not halted.
These sixty DAYS, in Congress
have demonstrated once more a
truth which is as old as the Ameri.
car government: that without
strong national leadership by the
President, Congr ess-though it is
elected by the people-soon ceases
to represent the nation. The votes
Of this Congress have not repre-
sented the real views of the Amer
lean nation. We have onlv to COM
pare the newspapers of the co'ln.
Try and the various polls of opinio>,
with the actions of Congress to
see that organized pressure groups
and not the views of the great ma
iority of the people have prevailed
There is no mystery about this.
The ordinary elected representa-
tive hears from the pressure
! Continued on Page Six; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-12-24
BY KIRKE l.. SIMPSON
Associated Press War Analyst

Thanksgiving Siberian elements
of the first Baltic army in Russia
are reported knocking ominously
at the northern portals of Vitebsk,
Nazi gateway fortress in White
Russia. Its indicated early a l
would mean a critical and wide
break in the crumbling German
winter defense front in the east.
Recapture of Vitebsk will set the
victory guns of Moscow rumbling
anew in tribute, too late for Christ
mas day. probably, but soon. And
to the war-hardened people of Mos
COW, that victory salvo will have
very special meaning. They have
not yet forgotten that it was
through the Vitebsk gateway and
up the Napoleonlc route to the out
skirts of Moscow itself that Nazi