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The Treachery of Yamamoto
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander in chief of
the combined Japanese fleets, has come into the inter
national spotlight as the symbol of cunning treachery
that brought the dastardly attack on Pearl Harbor
while peace talks were under way in Washington, D. C.
and the bloody bombing of the open city of Manila.
Indeed. Yamamoto’s treacherous scheming is believ
ed to have brought the downfall of the London Naval
Conference in 1934 and it probably played a vital role
m shaping the events leading up to the present conflict.
Non-Japanese participants in the London Naval Con
ference held it was Yamamoto’s insistence on the Jap
anese formula for naval parity with Great Britain and
the United Sttes that torpedoed the conference and end
ed the naval truce in the Pacific. He was Japan’s dele
gate to the conference and he demanded parity instead
of the 5-5-3 ration of naval strength.
Now, it has been determined that as early as last
January 24. eleven months before the outbreak of the
war, Yamamoto planned just such a coup as was stag
ed at Pearl Harbor.
The Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri published a letter
which Yamamoto sent to a close friend. Therein he
pointed out that humiliation was felt by the Japanesr
navy at the time the London conference failed.
He added:
“Any time war breaks out between Japan and the
United* States I shall not be content merely to capture
Guam and the Phlippines and to occupy Hawaii and
San Francisco.
“I am looking forward to dictating peace to the Unit
ed States in the White House at Washington.’’
What new and further treachery is in the warped
mind of this beast is not known today, but is is certain
that Yamamoto is playing for keeps.
Only the full-fledged cooperation of the entire Unit
ed States in producting munitions and armaments, in
building an army, navy and air force can stave off the
thrusts that Yamamoto must have in mind.
Yamamoto may be a national hero for the Japs, but
that’s because we haven’t started yet. — Anchorage
Times.
Time Works to Beat Japanese
Japan’s defeat will be accomplished in 18 months,
the Chinese ambassador to the United States told news
papermen. With the resources and capabilities of the
Nipponese the Chinese envoy is familiar, for his coun
try has been waging a prolonged war against them
and he bases his prediction on a knowledge of condi
tions in the Orient.
The Japanese have gained initial successes against
both Americans in the Philippines and British in the
Malayas, but these early trumphs promise nothing of
a permanent nature. Indeed the Nipponese advantag
es have spurred the United States and Great Britain
to greater imediate efforts than otherwise might have
been exerted at once.
Since Japan made her surprise attack on Pearl Har
bor December 7, the United States has moved into the
Pacific area half a million troops, with their accom
panying arms, munitions and supplies, an announce
ment from the national capital declared recently. For
engagement with the Japanese a proportionate United
States naval force may be surmised to be in the Far
Eastern waters, too.
Japan, at the acme of her power, is desperately
struggling against smaller American forces, while the
United States, which was at a comparatively low level
of war strength is just beginning to build it to ade
quate proportions. The Japanese must be discomfited
by the announcement that in about 6 weeks after the
beginning of the war, a force of 500,000 has been
moved by the United States into the theater of conflict.
The Nipponese leaders must realize these advance
troops will be quickly followed by many more.
Within the current new year. Japan will lose the
numerical advantage she holds at present scenes of
action. Then after the dawn of the next year, they will
be lucky to last, as predicted by the Chinese envoy,
six months longer.—Fairbanks News-Miner.
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STAGGERING TAX LOAD |
AWAITS LOCAL PEOPLE
Staggering income taxes are facing most Alaskans,
the largest tax ever yet imposed by the Federal gov
ernment upon the American people. And the fact
that living costs in the Territory are several times 1
over what they are in the States makes no difference.
Peggy Lyle and Peter Gatz, who preside over the
Fairbanks office as deputies of the Internal Revenue
Department, recently returned from school in Tacoma
where they learned all the answers. All the office hos
pitality now lacks is a bracer to revive the question
er from shock.
The deadline for filing returns is March 15, but Mrr>.
Lyle advises an early visit to avoid the rush. To the 1
regular contributors to the United States Treasury. |
blank tax forms will be mailed; the great numbers of
wage earners in the lower brackets who have hereto
fore been exempted, must call at the tax office for thr
forms,
All single persons who earned $750 during 1941. |
who earned $1,5P0, must file returns. Even though the
married persons have dependents, the deductions for
which relieve them of paying tax, the must neverthe
less file a return.
The regular tax rate is 4 percent of one's gross in
come. But that doesn’t mean anything. Nobody gets off
with a mere 4 percent. Everyone who pays at all is i
in the surtax class, heretofore reserved for the mighty.
The surtaxes on incomes from $750 to 2,000 is 6 per
cent, making a total of 10 percent; from $2,000 to
$4,000, 9 percent; from $4,000 to $6,000, 13 percent.
And so on. Mrs. Lyle doesn’t explain, but probably if
anyone has an income so high that there isn’t enough
left to live on when Uncle Sam has taken his slice, he
can apply to one of the relief agencies.
There are two forms of return, an optional one be
ing favored for incomes below $3,000. The office can
advise the taxpayer wheh is preferable in his partic
ular case.
To pay the bill for lickng the Japanese, the govern
ment is taxing wages, fees, commissions, including
pay of all Army and Navy personnel. Federal, terri
torial and city officials must pay. Retrement pay from
the Army and Navy is taxable. A draftee must include
the pay he received from his former employer in 1941.
Fees for jury service are taxable, also fees received as
administrator or executor of an estate. Earnings of a
minor child must be included wth the earnngs of his
parents. This is on the theory that since parents are
allowed a deduction for each child, any earnings of
the^child by running errands, selling papers or what
not, must be taxed. A wife’s income is also taxable
on her husband’s return, unless she files a separate re
turn. The tax covers all bonuses, gifts, tips, winnings
from gambling, bank nights, ice pool or sweepstake
winnings.
There are a lot more things in this new tax law, but
Gatz & Lyle, Uncle Sam’s official representatives can
explain the complicated aspects of it. Only don’t wait
until the deadlne to find out. There’s a penalty, inci
dentally, for delinquent filing of returns.
BRITISH ARREST BURMA PREMIER
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U Saw, picturesque premier of Burma, was arrested
by the British for conspiring with the Japanese. Pic
ture was made as U Saw arrved in New York recently
after a visit to Britain during which he tried to obtain
dominion status for his fas eastern country.
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Tin Cans Wasted
(Continued from last is
sue of the Nugget).
Another concentrated
source of tin can consump
tion, which now is enor
mous, is the Army. Asum
ing that the Army dumps
every day only one can for
each solder, the total quan
tity of tin lost in army can
tonments may approach
the lucrative figure of
4,000 tons. The ease of col
lecting the cans in this in
stance cannot be even com
pared with collection in
the cities.
New York City with ?
oopulation of seven and a
half million, dumps year
ly about 750 tons of tin, in
addition of 75,000 tons of
steel in detinned plate. To
tal amount of tin lost in
cans amounts in the 'Unit
ed States to over 13.000
tons.
It is interesting to note
that a committee of the Na
tional Academy of Science
estimated that a net maxi
mum of 12,000 long tons of
tin annually was recover
able from used cans.
Collector! Difficult
It seems that the main ob
stacle to the recovery of
recovery of tin and steel is
its collection. Detinning it
self is a comparatively
easy matter and does not
require a great outlay of
capital. In order to avert
expensive transportation,
such detinning plants
should be close to the sourc
es of supply. As far as the
collection of used cans is
concerned, it should be gov
fundamental principles:
The collection of cans on
a big scale can be organiz
erned by the following
ed as a Federal or State or
city undertaking. It is ob
vous that the only efficient
method of separation of
tin must be done at source
of this material. Only by
this method can one be as
sured that almost all cans
will be saved for future,
use.
The seperation of cans at
the place of dumping or on
conveyers of incinerating!
establishments as it was
done in the beginning of
the century in New York
and is still done in some
European cities is unsani
tary and unsatisfactory.
Since American municipal
practice shows that the reg
ulation can be extended, it
is conceivable that the sep
aration of cans can be done
by the housewife. In Balti
more, cans and bottles are
separated. One of the re
ports of the Bureau of
Training and Research,
I
When Lindy
Asked Army for
J
A Commission
Washington—Lindbergh will re
member for a long time bis talk
with Secretary of War Stimson
on the question of re-entering
the Army.
When the America First chair,
pion wrote to Gen. Arnold, Army
air chief, offering his services to
the Army, he was very hopeful
of regaining the colonelcy he had
discarded in the heat of his iso
lationist crusade. He wrote a let
■ ter instead of formally applying
I for re-instatement on the advice
of certain friends, some of them
| in the A:r Corps.
They counselled that he first
j feel out his prospects before go
! ing on record as asking for a
jeommissiog. The reason for this
I advice was that they had reason
to believe the Army did not care
to re-commission him in the Air
Corps. That was why no formal
application >was ever received
from him; also why he did not
discuss the matter of a commis
sion in his interview with Stim
son. Lindbergh was expressly
cautioned not to mention the
subject.
The talk took place in StLm
son’s office, where the balding
flier sat across the desk from
| the veteran cabinet member, who
| has grown white in the unstint
, ing service of his country. Stim
son opened the conversation. For
15 minutes, he precise cutting
I words he outlined his concept of
Americanism. Stimson never
mentioned Lindbergh. When he
; finished, the flier picked up the
j conversation and Stimson listen
ed. Lindbergh said he was en
gaged in secret experimental
work with a commercial concern,
1 which the Army knew about and
as interested in. At his offer to
continue in that capacity, or any
i other Stimson called in Assistant
Secretaries Robert Lovett and
John McCloy and told them
about it, “Where do you think
Mr. Lindbergh would be most
1 useful?” he asked. Lovett and
McCloy promptly voiced the op
inion that the flier should contin
ue his civilian work. Both said
firmly they were sure this would
be “most suitable.”
That ended the interview, and
I Lindbergh’s hope for re-instate
■ ment as an officer in the Air
Corps. (The Washington Merry
Go-Round by Drew Pearson and
1 Robert S. Alien).
Are you taking advantage
of six months paid in ad
vance subscription ?
published in Albany in 1935
shows that one-third of the
muncipalities of New York
State require the garbage
to be wrapped in paper
bags.
This emphasizes the idea
that if the municipal or
State administration will
decide to salvage one of
the most important strat
egic metals, administrative
ordinance wil bring to the
gates of detinning plants a
constant flow of this high
jly valuable refuse.