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Evening star., 1944-01-03
Chang Says Defeated
Japs Should Decide on
Postwar Government
BY the Associated Press.

BS the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, Jan. I DelayeO -
Generalisimo Chang Kai-shek, de-
claring the fate of the Axis was
sealed in 1943, predicted today that
1914 would see the beginning of the
decisive stage" of the war against
Japan and disclosed that President
Roosevelt agrees with him that the
Japanese people should be allowed
to choose their own form of govern
ment If they overthrow. their mill
tary regime.
"As to what form of government
Japan should adopt" Chang said,
in a 6000-word New Year message
to the Chinese army and people,
that question can better be left to
the awakened and repentant jap
anese people to decide for them
selves"
The President agreed with him
during talks at the Cairo confer
ence. Chang said, that "all Japanese
militarists must be wiped out and
the japanese political system must
be purged OF every vestige Of aggres-
sive elements"
Chang stated that with the re-
cent Allied landings in New Britain
and other strategic points Japan's
second line of defense in the Pa
cific from the Solomons to the Bis
marck Sea had been broken"
He said that the task of encirc-
ling the Japanese on the Asiatic
mainland would fall primarily on
Chinese shoulders because "in hel
defensive war Japan will have to
make the China theater her last
line Of defense where she will take
her last, most stubborn stand"
IF we prosecute the war in strict
! accordance with the strategy we
have agreed upon We can certainly
defeat Japan in the Pacific Ocean
to such an extent that either she
has to surrender unconditionallv or
none of her forces will be able to
survive the impact of our pressure, -
Chang asserted.
Evening star., 1944-01-03
Victory viii Demand
Everything We Have,
Capper Warns Nation
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Winning the war is going to take
everything we have, even beyond
what ordinarily we would regard as
the limit of endurance" Senator
Capper, Republican, of Kansas said
In radio speech yesterday.
"And we cannot afford these
strikes for higher wages or higher
prices or bigger profits that threaten
to slow down production and to cost
the lives of thousands of our fight
ing men abroad If the flow OF sup
plies slackens for as much as a single
day." Senator Capper declared.
Commenting on a recent state
|ment by Senator johnson, Democrat,
iof Colorado that he has been in
formed the United States would
provide 73 per cent of the cross
Channel invasion forces and the
British q per cent, Senator Capper
asserted:
I'm considering the position Of our
great ally, England, we must make
one clear distinction in our first
thinking. We must realize the diff
ference between Britain and the
British Empire.
"The population of the British
Empire Is somewhere in the neigh
borhood of $50, 900 900 persons. But
the population of Britain is only
around 100000. And the number
Of men among the other 100000 900
ruled by Britain who will fight for
the British is so small that it cannot
be counted.
Thinking in terms OF Britain
and that is what we must do and are
doing in war planning-the British
cannot do better than 48 Britons
for every 1875 Americans.
Remember these figures when
you feel inclined to criticize the divi-
sion of men for the invasion Of Eu-
rome"
Evening star., 1944-01-03
Jones Urges Postwar
Business Plans, Fears
Wealth Concentration
BY the Associated Press.

os the ASsOCldteQ freSS.
American business must prepare
now for reconversion to a peacetime
economy in order to prevent post
war chaos, in the opinion of Secre-
tary Of Commerce Jones.
Mr.. Jones expressed concern over
what he termed the danger of post
war concentration of commercial
wealth and said all members of the
business world should cooperate in
postwar planning.
Military victory may come sud-
denly, he wrote in the January
issue of Domestic Commerce, there
by affording scant time "to plan
calmly and intelligently for a smooth
transition to peacetime economy"
The Secretary noted that many
topflight business firms, members
of civic and commercial associations,
already have taken steps in plan
ming for the postwar era.
But what of the thousands of
smaller business firms without any
affiliation with groups and lacking
adequate managerial skill to plan
for the future?" he asked. What
is happening to that basically Amer
ican charistic-private initiative, the
quality that impels men to broaden
their vision, take risks?"
Secretary Jones said it was per
fectly natural" that the greatest
share of production and profits be
centered in big business during the
war, but added that business seq
ments outside the 'inner circle"
should be given consideration in
postwar planning.
To-day this (Commerce) Depart
ment sees the danger of a concen-
tration of wealth and power in the
hands of a relatively few private
enterprises in the postwar period
If less powerful businesses are al
lowed to become impotent and en-
ervated, if private initiative is not
encouraged" he wrote.
Evening star., 1944-01-03
Carlson Offers Plan
To Eliminate i. ). Tax
Returns by Millions
BY the Associated Press.

A major legislative operation
designed to make it unnecessary
for millions of persons to file
any Federal income tax returns
at all was proposed today by
Representative Carlson, Repub-
lican, of Kansas. Most income
taxes would be deducted auto
matically from wages and sal
aries under his plan.
The KanSan, a member of tht
taX-initiating Ways and Means Com
mittee and author of the Ruml pay
aS-you-go bill, described present rev.
enue statutes as "a hodgepodge O.
language that cannot be correctl,
and definitely interpreted by Phil.
adelphia lawyer"
Declaring simplification to be "tht
NJ. tax job" for 1914, he inserted
IN the Congressional Record his OWL
suggestions for remedy.
Proposes Graduated Scale.
l. Simplify and improve current
Withholding provisions so as to elm
mate the need for any returns to be
filed by 100000 of the 10000 OO(
to 100000 taxpayers. This could
be done by adopting a graduated
Withholding from wages and sala-
ries," he said, "and at the same time
allowing a percentage of income ex-
emption" in lieu of the present de-
ductions for other taxes paid, inter-
est and contributions to churches
and charity.
2. Combine existing personal in
come tax laws into one base and
rate. Under existing law we have
one base and varying rates for the
regular income tax and a separate
base and rate for the Victory tax. ;
he said. Every taxpayer must
wade through this nightmare O,
confusion in order to determine hi.
liability"
3. Repeal earned income credit
There is sound argument for re.
tanning the earned income credit
but its retention greatly compli.
SaoCo ou1 Idh lelulIl ana is Oh l1Jtle
actual benefit to the taxpayer"
Senate Debate Due.
The Ways and Means Committee
after long labors last summer ano
fall, brought out bill combining
the Victory Tax with the norma
income levy. The House passed the
measure, but the Senate Finance
Committee struck this provision out
of the 100000 ,OOO-plus secono
wartime revenue measure. The
Senate will debate the measure
when Congress reconvenes next
week
Representative Carlson said there
is danger that taxpayers will be-
come so confused and beWildered
that it will affect our nationa
morale" unless the statutes are
simplifled. He conceded it is toe
late to do anything about the COM
putations due this March IS, but he
demanded action before another tax
accounting date rolls around, saying
I'VE can and must simplify oul
tax laws. The day of soothing
syrup and palliatives is past. Moth
ing less than major operation will
suffice
Evening star., 1944-01-03
U. S. Network Presents
New Russian Anthem
BY the Associated Press,

os tue hSSoCl&teQ TTeSS.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-The new
Soviet national anthem, replacing
the "Internationale" but retaining its
music, was heard in this country
yesterday for the first time on the
Blue Networks weekly war journal,
the network announced.
Sung by a Russian chorus, the
anthem was recorded from British
Broadcasting Corp. pickup from
Moscow on New Year Eve.
Evening star., 1944-01-03
Man Classified 4-F
Two Weeks After
Induction Into Army

BY the Associated Press.
LA BELLE, Fla, Jan. 3.-Pvt.
Carl E. Malmberg was inducted
into the Army recently at Camp
Blanding.
He told of his CONSERVATION
two weeks later when he re-
ceived 4-F classification card
from the Hendry County draft
board.
Il don't know what my draft
status is" he commented, but
I know I'm in the Army and
expect to stay a while"
Evening star., 1944-01-03
Dimond to Speak

A. j. Dimond, Delegate from Alaska
in Congress, will address the Wash
ington Society of Engineers at a
meeting at 8:15 pm. Wednesday at
the Cosmos Club. His talk on Alas
ka-the 49th State" will be illus
trated with slides.
Evening star., 1944-01-03
70 Bandits Rob and Kidnop

Twenty masked bandits recently
held up bus near Apaculoc, Mexi-
CO, stripped the crew and passen-
gers of their belongings and kid
mapped a 20-year-old girl.
Evening star., 1944-01-03
FOUND.

KEYS in souvenir container, on 1nsTanam
ST. Phone GE. 2z1b.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-11
Alaska Line Is Finished

Edmonton (P)-Final strands of a 2600 mile telephone system installed in Alaska and northwest Canada are now joined with a 595 mile circuit between Nor man, Wells and Whitehorse. Brig Gen. Ludson Worsham, commanding Northwest Service Command, announced the Alas ka telephone system connects Edmonton, Dawson, Skagway, Fairbanks, Whltehorse, Norman and Wells with the United States and ranks with the Alaska high- way and Canol project as one of the most ambitious construction projects ever undertaken in the northern wilderness.
 The Miller construction com pany of Indianapolis was pri- mary contractor for the line, which travels through previously unexplored country, crosses 4 of the Mackenzie mouns tains and at one place crosses the Mackenzie river via a 4-mile submarine cable.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-11
Accident In Jeep ataR

An accident in a jeep early Sunday morning resulted in the death uf Pvt. Charles William McCabe, U. s. Army, a driver for post utilities. Time of the accident was placed at 2 am, and officials said the car had left the road at the edge of Lake Gene vieve and overturned, pinning McCabe under it. He was dead when found. Officials said there was no one else in tie car.
 The deceased, who was 24 years old, came from Ferndale, Michigan.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-11
109 Voters Register; No Candidates Yet

With only 8 days left to file no candidates for the city cleo 'tion have yet put in their ap- pearance. Candidates have until Monday, March 20, at midnight, to get their hats in the ring.
 Up to yesterday l09 voters had signed the registration book at the city clerks office. Regis tration is required every year for Kodiak's city election.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-11
PubIicHeuIfh Service Assigns Doctor Here

The board of trustees of Gh$1 Griffin Memorial hospital an nounced today that it had been informed by the Territorial De- partment of Health that the Public Health Service at Juneau- has assigned doctor to be sta toned at Kodiak. Purpose of the appointment, 1t was sald, was to provide a doctor to en- act public health office policies and duties and provide medical relief for the legal benefciarieS of the U. s. Public Health Service.
 The new appointee is Dr Robert w. MacCalmont, Jr ot' Washington, D. C., a surgeon Of, the Reserve Corps, U. s. Public Health Servlce.
 Dr. MacCalmont is expected here soon after stopping in Jun eau to confer with Dr c. C. Carter, Territorial Health Com missioner, in regard to tbs duties assigned to him
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-11
World News HighHights

heavy assaults on Berlin. In raiG identified by Berlin as on Han over Britain lost 7 heavy bomb CTS & 1 fighter which contrastea sharply with 68 bombers & II fighters lost Monday.
 Pacific Front
 Allied Hdqtrs. SW Pacific American warships moved un- opposed into tue head of Leader Harbor in Admiralty islan ds. Marines virtually cut Willaumeg peninsula in two on north coast New Britain. Once mighty Rab- aul showed marked signs deter oration Warships x supply ves- sels entered waters between Jay he'd Manus island & American controlled Los Negros to aid cav- alrymen of 1st Div. to steadily expand foothold in Admiralty group. Marines on New Britain overcame bitter Jap resistance X inflicted heavy casualties as they pushed within 2 miles Of Talasea on eastern side of WilIA aumez peninsula.
 Solomons based planes found RabauPs big harbor deserted of servlceable Jap ships & 6 ais dromes virtually stripped ef aircraft.
 Pearl Harbor-Several form ations of Jap bombers Taided Eniwetok Wed. first time since American forces completed cap ture of the northernmost atoli of the Marshalls. Adm. Nimitz ealt2 only small damage was done.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-11
European Front

Stockholm - Russian planes Thurs. night bombed Reval, capital & major port of Estonia, dispatches from HeIsinki to Swedish press said. Fires could be seen at Helsinki 50 miles a. cross the gulf.
 London = German radio an- nounced Nazi troops abandoned Uman, strong base in Western Ukralne. Entire southern Uk- raine front blazed with great Russian offensive, Russia said :, which resulted capture Staro and Konstantinov. Most spec tacular development was dis closure by Stalin of new Russian drlve launched by Gen. Malin- ovsky in southwest driving westward across Ingullets river & capturing g Ger. divisions.
 London = Brtain's 4-engined Lancasters reached far southern France & bombed large factory at Marignane near Marseille. RAF kept Allied aerial blows going around clock after bomb ing Berlin through dense clouds by American 8th Air force. Shake-up of top men in German Air force precipitated by series
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-11
Robberies Reported


 Tommy Thompson, who rent ed a house across from the hos pital Thursday, reported to police that the same night his place was entered by two men who threatened him and took $25 in cash, cigarette lighter and l boot of a pair.
 According to Thompson he was awakened about 2:30 by having a fashllght shown in his face. He said he had been i'll, and that he demonstrated when one of the men told him to get out of bed so they could search it. The men then told him to stay in bed, that if he got out it would be too bad, and proceeded searching the small cabin with the fiashlight Thompson said the men were there about 5 minutes before leaving, and he told authorities he believed both were in uniform.
 On Wednesday night between II and l2 someone violently broke in the back door of the Model cafe. Mrs. Anne Hunt ley, proprietress, was alone in the restaurant after closing, and said she got only a glimpse of the man and that he ran back out when he saw her.
 Sometime Saturday while Es. ther Reip was working at the Cheechako Grill, someone enter ed her home on Mission road and made off with ali onyx ring with a diamond in it, a Rulova watch and a cigarette lighter.
 Although doors and windows were locked there was no sign of a forced enly being made. Police said they did not connect these robberies with other enterings made by the mysterious maraud- CT who has been active the past weeks.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-11
YEx-resident Is Injured

Mir, ana MrS. Jlm DfOpny, lOrner residents, narrowly es- caped death in an automobile .ccident near Bakersfield, Calif.. m Feb. l, according to word re- eeived by friends here. Mir. Brophy managed the Kodiak Mercantile company here and Mrs. Brophy was employed for time at Helen's Eat Shop.
 MT. and Mrs. Brophy, now operating a large ranch near Salinas, were making a trip with another couple and a woman. Near Bakersfield the car hit an oil spot in the road and was thrown into a ditch, overturn- ing. Mir. Brophy and the other man and woman were thrown clear and were not even scratch ed but Mrs. Brophy and the other woman were pinned under  the wreck and the car caught fire,
 With such little traffic on the road it was a miracle that an- other car came along just then that carried a fire extinquisher. The blazing car was extinquished without either woman being burned The two under the car were extricated and taken 10 the hospital at Bakersfield where 1t WAS determined Mrs. Brophy had a pelvic bone broken in three places and the other wo- man had 8 broken back.
 The woman with the broken back was placed in a cast and must remain there 6 months. Mrs Brophy was moved later by ambulance 240 miles to the Salinas hospital and was later transferred 10 the home of a friend, who is nurse. In about smOnths it IS expected that Mrs Brophy can be removed to the ranch.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-11

Jack Delane is new member of the local War Rationing boara He fills the position formerly oe- cupied by Charles l.. P. Svend- sen.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-11

Blasted in the aerial attack on Truk by bombers from us. Navy carrier, this cruiser burns and lists. The thin line in upper right is wake of torpedo bearing down on the ship.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-11

Mrs. Merrill Coon, in charge of the Red Cross War Drive canvassing iD town, reported to- day that $2164.22 has been col lected Sc far in the current cam paign.
 The drive is being continued throughout the month of March.
Kodiak mirror., 1944-03-11

Washington (P) = Married coup es with a yen to be alone should see the CAA about a job in Alaska. The CAA announced
 it wants 30 couples willing to live in remote outposts of Fed eraI airways. Fifty e uples will be hired The outposts are used principally to supply weather in formation for plane operations.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-16
NAzIS MAKE
NO Defense
YET IN ITALY
Many Towns Captured by
Allied Advance All
Along Italy Front

ROME, June Is. = The Allies
smashed forward from the Adriatic
to the Tyrrhenian Sea, some troops
advancing as much as Is miles in
"a hours, capturing such important
highway towns as Acquapendente,
Narni, and Terni along the way.
The farthest advance came ny
the Eighth Army in the capture OF
Tod, approximately 60 airline miles
northeast of Rome. and only 85
miles south of the Pisa-Rimini line,
where the fleeing Germans may
make a stand.
There has been no sign of an
organized enemy defense in front
of the line running from Pisa on
the west coast through the city
of Florence to Rimini on the Ad-
ratio
The Fifth Army pushed above
Lake Bolsena and captured Ac-
quadepdente about seven miles to
the north.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-16
TLESS
CRAFT RAID
SO. ENGLAND
Nazi Secret Weapon Drop.
No Bombs : Explodes
on or Near Ground

LONDON, June 16.-Flame-spit-
ting pilotless planes drove over
southern England today and last
night in the Germans first secret
weapon" reaction to the invasion
of France.
These craft, exploding on the
ground or close TO it, caused deaths
and considerable damage at scat
tered points, and sent the anti
aircraft guns barking extensively in
daylight for the first time since
the early blitz days of 1910.
Descriptions of the weapon var
led considerably, but all agreed
these self destroying aircraft flew
at terrific speed in straight line
and we're marked by bright lights
and shot flames from their ex-
hausts, suggesting they might be
rocket-propelled.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-16
.FDR GIVES OUT
CONCEPTIONS OF
GREAT COUNCIL
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Outlines Information
Peace Organization
Following War

WASHINGTON, June 16.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt has made public
the Administrations conceptions OF
a postwar international peace or
ganization, providing for a council
representing all the nations which
will concern itself with the settle
ment of international disputes to
prevent war. The President said
the organization should include an
international Court of Justice.
He issued the statement after a
conference with Secretary of State
Cordell Hull, Undersecretary Stet-
tinius, DR.. Isaiah Bowman, and
Leo Pasvotsky, officials of the State
Department, who are working on
post war planning.
The President said. Ut is our
thought that the organization
should be fully representative
body with broad responsibilities for
promoting facilities for International
cooperation.
THE organization will provide
for a council elected annually by
a fully representative body of all
the nations and will include the
four major nations and suitable
number OF other nations. Tie
Council viii concern itself with the
peaceful settlement of information
al disputes for the prevention OF
threats to peace or breaches of
peace"
His statement also emphasized
that we ARE not thinking of a
super state with it's own police
force or other paraphernalia of CO.
ercive power" and added that con-
sideration of the postwar organi-
cation has been in the formative
stage for Is months. He praised
what he called the entirely nom
partisan nature of these consulta-
tons"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-16
Mannerheinl
Line Is Cut
BY 5oviets
Last Barrier 10 Finnish Port
Of Viipuri Bred6hed
by Red Army

MOSCOW, June 16. - The Red
Army has smashed its way through
F'inlands new Mannerheim line =
one of the last barriers on the way
to the important seaport of Viipuri.
A Red Star dispatch said the
new line is a tremendous fortifica-
ton of four lines with walls made
of cone shaped stone, with anti-tank
blocks almost two yards high, be-
fore which lay an anti-tank mine
field 20 yards wide, strewn with
German mines.
A great gap was cut IN TINS line
some places by Soviet tanks and
artillery. as well as infantry, which
is considerably beyond it, the dis
patch sale.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-16
5UpERF0RT5
MAKE HITS,
new ATTACK
Two Mighty BIOS Are Lost
BY Accidents, Not
Enemy Action

WASHINGTON, June 16. - Two
mighty BIOS we're lost on account
of accidents, but none through en-
envy action yesterday as Americas
new superbombers turned Jap in
dustrial targets into glowing masses
Of wreckage."
The crew of one lost superbomber,
however, is safe, the War Depart
ment reports in an early morning
communique today.
The number of participating air.
craft in the raid on Japan Is not
made known in the early commune
ques as the first details emerged
from the historic attack which
marked the beginning of an entirely
new chapter in aerial warfare by
the greatest bomber ever built
Official Communique
Todays communicate was issued
from the headquarters of the new
Twentieth Air Force, controlling OPP
erations of the Super Fortresses
around the world.
The communique described as a
"sizeable task force" operating from
the recently completed bases In
China as making the attack on
Japan that gave the Nipponese En-
pine, in words of an eye witness her
answer to December 7, 1941 at Pearl
Harbor.''
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1944-06-16
BONN isles,
NEAR JAPAN,
ARE BOMBED


NEW YORK, June 16.-The Japs
have announced that a naval task
force yesterday afternoon attacked
the BONN Island group, between 900
and TOO miles southeast of Japan
proper.
The Imperial communique broad
cast by Domei, said the plane force
struck the two islands of Chichi
and Jima in the northern section of
the group. Allied sources made no
mention of such a raid.
Jap broadcasts said that damage
to the Bonins was extremely slight"
and claimed that II raiders were
downed.