Alaska Treasury
Should Have
$25,000,000 Taxes
KETCHIKAN, Sept. lO^P)—
Territorial Senator Norman R.
V’alker, declared the Territory
would have at leas* twenty-five
million dollars in the Treasury if
the nineteen forty-one legislature
had enacted the income tax bill
before it.
Senator Walker was co-author
of the bill which the Senate de
feated 5 to 3. His statement fol
lowed an editorial in the Ketchi
kan Chronichle, contending Alas
ka should have taxed wages and
profits on war projects.
* Walker estimated the spending
on war bases in Alaska at two bil
lion dollars.
BILL LA VERY. DEICE BROWN
ARRIVE IN TOWN
Bill Lavery, airplane operator
of Anchorage arrived from An
chorage with Deke Brown, jew
eler also of Anchorage, and
brought the news of the marriage
of Capt, Sam Shafsky and Lou
Ellen Smaltz. Pilot Shafsky is
well known in this area and now
flies for the Alaska Airlines. The
bride is an airways stewardess.
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Harry—How come your dog is
so smart?
Jerry—He nose it all!
Schmelling
Acquitted Of
Allied Charges
HAMBURG. Sept. 10— fjp) —
The court acquitted Max Schmel
,:n« a the Allied Military Gov
e”nmen‘ court on a charge he
made a false statement to a mem
ber of he Allied forces contrary
to the military government reg
ulations.
German civilians applauded
when the president of the court,
Lt. Col. Donald Kaberry read the
acquittal. The action followed a
four-hour re-examination of six
witnesses including Vivian Batch
elor, British War correspondent,
whose interview with the former
champion on his plan to reeducate
German youth by publishing
books brought forth the charge.
ROGER BOCKMAN
AT PEARL HARBOR
Mrs. Helen Bockman, director
of the U. S. Land Office here, is
in receipt of a telegram from her
son Roger, in which he states he
arrived at Pearl Harbor on Sep
tember seventh aboard the largest
amphibious ship in the Pacific
area. He states that he has been
ashore three times visiting in
Honolulu, and likes the climate
very much. He expects to be sent
to the far western Pacific in the
near future.
They Roll Again
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500 Allied War
I Prisoners Free
Themselves
■
i NAGASAKA, Sept. 10— </P> —
; More than five hundred Allied
war prisoners of war in northern
Kyushu have liberated thmeselves
and are roaming the southernmost
of the Jap home islands awaiting
■ the arrival of the occupation
forces Associated Press corres
, pondent Vern Haugland reported
from this atom-blasted city to
I day.
He quoted a prison commander
[ as saying many prisoners are
j wandering all over Nippon getting
a look at the country in which
they have been imprisoned so
long.
RAINBOW SKYWAY NEWS
l Sgt. McMahon was. the last stu
; dent to solo this sesaon. He, with
many others, received his traveling
! orders and was very happy to get
I checked out as a solo student be
fore having to leave.
Folowing is a list of those who
have soloed this year: Richard
Webb, Benny Leonard, Klem
Klementson, Teddy Attardo, Don
Trackwell, and Sgt. McMahon.
Those who received their pri
vate pilots license were: Pete
Reader, Hank Miller and Pvt.
Burnaby. Paul McCarthy, who re
ceived his primary training with
Rainbow Skyways completed his
training Outside and also has his
private pilot’s license.
NOTICE
The Nevada Cocktail Lounge
will be closed to the general pub
lic Tuesday evening for the Nome
Volunteer Firemen's Dance.
KING ISLAND CHILD
INJURED IN FALL
Vincent, the 12-year-old grand
son of the King Island chief, fell
under the wheel of a trailer last
Saturday and cut his knee and
bruised both ankles. The accident
happened a half of a mile east of
the King Island village when the
child was riding on an empty
trailer being pulled by a tractor,
and fell off the trailer.
OKLAHOMA MAN HERE
FOR U. S. E. DEPT.
Alonzo A. Anderson, of Miami,
Oklahoma, of the U. S. Engineer
Department working at the Nome
Base dropped in at the Nugget of
fice the other day to tell us how
he, and his friends back home,
have been enjoying the Nome
Nugget and wish it continued suc
cess.
Clothing can be made out of
soybean protein.
1 VOLUNTEER FIREMEN TO
HOLD GET-TOGETHER
Tomorrow evening the Volun
teer Firemen have taken over the
Nevada Cocktail Lounge for a get
together and dance. The party com
I mittee is headed by “Binks” Seif
fert as chairman and Bud Harper,
Keith Hedreen and Machinist
Mate 2nd Class Ferd English, are
his assistants. The party is sched
uled to start about eight-thirty
and real peppy music is promised
by boys from the post.
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