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Cloudy tonight and Saturday without much change in temper
ature. Light snow Saturday afternoon ornight.
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Data For 24 Hours F.nding: 1:00 pm Today
Highest temp — 26 Lowest temp — 20 Precipitation — 0.01
Total precip this month 1.03 ■ Total since Jan. 1, 1940. 11.73
Ss Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight....— 25 100 ENE-9 Drizzle
Bam ..._. . - 24 96 ENE-13 Drizzle
12:30 p m . .. 21 86 NE-10 . Cloudy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 9:15 a. m. Sunset 2:23 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 9 Lowest temp — -3 Precipitation — 0
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in the empire (black areas) which France would have to yield up
to the axis powers under a reported peace agreement if France will
declare war on its former ally, Britain. According to Swics re
ports France would be permitted to keep all her present territories
except Alsace-Lorraine, Nice, Tunisia, Jibuti and German co onies
she acquired in the World War, the Camaroons and Tololand.
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Ihe Washington
News-Letter
Anthony J. Dimond,
Dei gate fr m Alaska
Before going into a state of
"suspended animation,” Congress
i passed a measure of material;
benefit to the natives of Alaska.
That is the bill. S. 4338, to ex
empt Indians from tlv two-year)
) limitation en t nr oliment for
work in the Civilian Conservuton
: Corps.
i The bill passed was a Senate
bill intr duced by Senator Thom
as of Oklahoma although Honor
able Mary T. Norton, Chairman
of the House Committee on La
bor. and I had introduced sim
ilar bills in the Hous'. But the
Senate acted first and so, at my
request a meeting was called of
the House Committee on Labor;
and the Committee took up the t
1 Senate bill rath- r than either of
the House bills. The bill passed
the Senate on September 30, the
House on October 14, and it was
approved by the President on Oc
: tob r 21. Public Law No. 875.
In the CC'C Act there is a limit
ation of two years for the em
ployment of any enrollee, and
after the expiration of two years
i the enrollee must be discharg d.
He is not again eligible for en
rollment. The only exception
'made in the law is in favor of
war veterans. Under the bill pass
d. Indians are now also except
ed from the two-year limitation.
The seriousness of the situat
tion in Alaska with respect to
the Alaska natives was expressed
in a letter of Mr. B. Frank Heint
zleman. Regional Forester for
Alaska, by Mr. Wellamn Hol
brook, Acting Forester. dated
February 7 anl addressed to the
Chief of the Forest Service,
Washington, D. C. This letter
was incorporated in the Hous.
Rcport and it is as follows:
Chief. Forest Service
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
The Civilian Conservation
Corps is facing the possibility of
greatly reduced enrollment, if
not suspension of work projects
in the Indian villag s of Alaska
as a resu t of the 2-vear limita
tion on enrollments.
Fishing and seasonal ocupa
tions usually engage the Indians
during the summer and we em
ploy them on Civilian Conser
vation Corps projects adjacent
to their villag s for the rest of
the year. Ordinarily these work
units cover a large percentage of
the qualified men in the commun
ity so that we reemploy many
of the same p> rsons year after
in filling our quotas.
Our Alaska coast Indians largo
ly have their own homes and
live n isolated I di .n communit
ies. They have lit le opportunity
for advancement, and we will
have them as potential enroll es
as lmg as the Civilian Cons rvo
tion Corps exists. If the 2-year
limitation is to be applied here,
the majority of these men will be
retir d from the Civilian Conser
vation Corps and there will be
few others to replace them. We
strongly urge, therefore, that an
eff. rt be made to waive the 2
’ sr limitation insofar as Ala^k;
Indians are concerned. A d'fTev
ent situation exists w ll respect
to the whites, and no waiver is
asked for them.
The 2-year limitation wi'l soon
make it imp issible for us to main
tain the 50-50 ratio which is now
in efT el between whites and na
tives. Furthermore, it will soon
bar some of the older natives
whom we now enroll as totem
pole carvers and for other native
art work. Their services are prac
HeaTy mdisp nsible to that part
of our program.
It is earnestly requested that
suitable action be taken on this
matter as soon as possible.
Excess Profits and Other Taxes
Several inquiries have come to
me cone rning certain provisions
of the recent Act of Congress,
approved October 8. 1940, Public
Law No. 801, commonly known
as the “Excess Profits Tax Act”
but technically referred to as the
Second Revenue Act of 1940.
Those qu stion are of particular
interest to Alaska and concern
to taxes imposed by the Act with
respect to (a) incomes from the
mining of strategic metals and
(b) abnormalities in incomes in
any taxable period.
With respect to th,? exemption
of incomes derived from the min
ing of strategic metal?, an ex
emption was made by the Senate,
but was modified in Conference.
It can b. best explained by quot
ing here the two paragraphs of
the Conference Report relating
to the subject. They are as fol
lows:
Section 731. Income From Min
ing Strategic Metals (Sec. 730 of
Smate Amendment).
“This section is new in the Sen
ate amendment, no comparable
provision having been contained
in the House bill. It exempts
from excess-profits tax income
d rived from mining, reduction
or benefication of tungsten, quick
silver, manganese, platinum, anti
mony, chromite, and tin or the
ores and materials containing
suuh metals. These materials
have ben declared to b strategic
materials by the War Depart
ment. The exemption provided
in section 730 is intended to en
courage their domestic produc
tion.
Under conference agreement,
this section is changed to section
731 and it is given a new cap
tion. It exempts from excess
profits tax that portion of th:
adjusted excess-profits net in
come of a domestic corporation
which is attributable to mining
within the United States of tung
sten, quicksilver, manganese,
platinum, antimony, chromite or
tin. The tax on the remaining
portion of the adjusted excess
profits net income is an amount
which bears the same ratio to the
tux computed on all the adjust
(' I excess-profits net income as
such remaining portion bears to
the entire adjus' d excess-profits
nut income.”
It will be seen from the forego
ing that the exemption of such
income is still substantially re
turned in the Act.
As to the other f atures of the
A't mentioned, with respect to
abn rmalitie? in income in any
x ib e period, the Act in section
721. subdivision (3), now provid
es that income derived from min
ing in any particular year which
may be consider d abnormal
may be spread out over the per
iod of devel pment. This is part
icularly helpful to taxpayers
who may soer 1 several year
”d . con?:d' i"ilde amounts of
' money in d velopment of proper
j ties and then, when fully equip
j ped and developed, receive ab
j normally h gh income in a sub
sequent year.
_
Nationality Laws
By a bill recently passed and
appi v d by the President, Pub
lie Law No. 853, the nationality
(laws of the United States have
been codified and to some extent.
■ revised.
There is one feature of the Ac!
I which is d serving of special at-,
iention and that is the provision
which presumes that certain na
tionals of the United States who:
remain abroad more than six
months shall have expatriated
i themselves. These paragraphs of
J the Act ar? aimed at those per
j sns who undertake to assume
dual citizenship. That is to say,
to be citizens of the United Stat
es and, at the same time, to be
! citizens of some foreign country,
and perhaps, serve in the mili
tary forces of such foreign coun
try or accept some other service
under its government. The sub-1
ject in question can best be un
derstood by a quotation of sec
tion 401. -ubnction (c) and (d)
and a ! of section 402 of the Act.'
They are as follows:
“ Sec. 401. A person who is a
national of the United States,
whether by birth or naturaliza
tion, shall lose his nationality by!
(e) Entering, or serving in the
armed forces cf a foreibn stat '
unles expressly authorized by'
the laws of the United States, if
he has or acquires the national
ity of such foreign state; or
(d) Accepting, or performing
th,. duties of any office, post or
employment under the govern
ment of a foreign state or politic
al subdivision thereof for which
only nationals of such state are
eligible; or
Sec. 402. A national of the Unit
] ed States who was born in the
Unit d States or who was born
in any place outside of the juris
diction of the United States of a
I parent who was born in the Unit
ed States, shall be presumed to
have expatriated himsclb under
|suhs-ction (c) or (d) of section,
401, when he shall remain for.
six months or longer within any
; foreign state of which he or eith
er of his parents shall have been
a national according to the laws’
of such foreign state, and such
presumption shall exist until ov
ercom. whether or not the in
dividual lias returned to hte Unit!
ed States. Such presumption may
be overcome on the presentation
of satisfactory evidence to a dip
lomatic or consular officer of the
United Stat s, under such rules.
and regulations as the Depart
ment of States and the Depart
ment of Justice jointly prescribe.
However, no such presumption:
shall arise with respect to any'
officeror mployee of the United
States while serving abroad a 1
such officer or employee, nor tc
any accompanying member of j
his family.”
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► OH! FOR A DOC’S LIFE THESE D AYS— Far, far away seem war scares when the Rolling Rock hounds take to the field at Ligonier, Pa., under the watch
_ ful eye of Huntsman Fred Hedges. The hounds were put through their paces for the benefit of socialites attending the Rolling Rock Hunt meet.
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Schenley Distillers Corp., N. Y. C.
1940 Is Peak
Year For Air j
Travel In l. S.
Alaskan travelers to the Unit
ed States will find full summer
schedules in operation by United
Air Lines during the fall and
winter months for the first time,
according to Clyde D. Doran, Al
aska r preventative for United.
"Fail and winter air travel has
become so heavy that we have
not yet taken off a single trip
from our all-time peak summer
schedules,' he said. "Indications
are now that we will c ntinue to
op. rate all our schedules through
out the entire winter..
"The heavy travel In connec
tion with the national d fense
or gram, increased winter va
•at'.on travel and distant fights to
m:j r football game . all ar com
bining to mak - th. 1940 fall and
winter air travel season by far
he greatest in history."
From Seattle, which cO”oects
vith steamboats and Pacific Al
ska p'anes. United has eight
Vghts daily to Portland. Ore..
•i:h three of the fl g'.its contin
i rg to Salt Lake, Chicago and
\ w York on the coast-to-coast
ou e, and four flights continu
•ig southward on the Pacific
‘"ovist route to San Francisco,
,os Angeles and San Diego.
New spaper advertising
d| develop new business
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J O U R N E Y—When his
strength returns, Jan Paderew
ski, now in Lisbon, will continue
on to U.S. to make his home.
The famous Polish pianist will
_ w be 80 years old Nov. 6.