EX-TEACHER
COVERS WAR
WITH CAMERA
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By ADELAIDE KERR
AF Features Writer
Therese Bonney, who has al
ready photographed on several
"War fronts, wants to use her ■
Camera on another assignment
different from any other worn- j
an’s.
V/hen the Nazis have been
Ibeaten back from occupied coun-,
tries and Allied governments and
relief have moved in, she wants
to show what democracy does to
the lives of those who have been
enslaved.
She wants to drive home one j
more lesson to the peoples of the I
Front-Line Photographer
THERESE BONNEY
World—to show them poignantly
just what war does to people, and
just what freedom and democracy
Can do.
“That job needs to be done,”
she told me in her New York
apartment “And I want to be
the one to do it I have always
tried to take pictures which
would interpret peoples to peo
ple.
Miss Bonney has been training
her cameras on war scenes since
the summer of 1939. She went to
Finland in June of that year and
was there when the Russo-Fin
nish war broke.
Miss Bonney photographed the
results of war again in Spain
after the Spanish Civil war. And
when the Nazis invaded France,
she rushed to the Meuse front
and began the picture record of
that struggle. Homeless Tofugees
streaming down the road, desert
ed cottages, starving children and
many other wartime tragedies
have been recorded on her nega
tivs.
“I had some close shaves,”
she said with a reminiscent
grin. “My tin hat got me in
trouble. It was a German model
which I had bought in Fin
land. 'When I wore it in France
the French thought I was a
parachutist and arrested me. I
talked my way out of that—
and I certainly changed that
hat.”
Back in this country Miss Bon
ney showed her outstanding pho
tographs in a number of exhiibi- j
tions under such titles as “To
Whom the Wars Are Done,” and
“War Comes to the People.” Re
cently she published a book of
pictures, “Europe’s Children.” j
showing the effect of war on the
children of the continent. She has
received the French Legion of
Honor and Croix de Guerre and
the hite Rose of Finland.
Miss Bonney is a tall, dynamic. |
dark-eyed woman who works
with a single-purposed drive. She
punctuates her words with swift
clipped gestures and speaks in a |
swift steady stream. She was born j
in Syracuse, N. Y., but has spent
most of her adult life abroad. She
worked her way through four
colleges and emerged with a doc- ;
tor’s degree from the University j
of Paris with the idea of becom
ing a teacher. But the idea of
teaching boys and girls to con
jugate the verb “to love” seemed
deadly dull to her, so she turned
to photography.
Though she has devoted her
life to the camera art. Therese
Bonney remains a teacher. Her
pictures always drive home a
point—rthe kind of points she
might have made as a professor
on a classroom platform.
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COLLECTION OF
ALASKA TAXES
SHOW INCREASE
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Uncle Sam’s collections from
Alaska taxpayers increased near
ly one-fourth during the last
year.
Exactly $4,944,678.24 in all
I forms of interna] revenue was
collectel in the Territory
during the 1943 fiscal year end
ing June 30th. That is five times
the amount obtained in the fis
cal year 1940.
These figures were disclosed
today by Clark Squire, collector
of Internal Revenue for the dis
trict of Washington and Alaska.
I They do not include Victory tax,
which for the first thTee months
| amounted to $326,986. Figures for
the second three months are not
available because reports for
that quarter were not made until
after close of th fiscal year.
For the fiscal year 1942 total
' collections for Alaska were 64,
015,534.93. The increase for 1943
was $929,143.3.1, or 23.1 percent.
The increase for the entire coun
try was 71.4 percent total col
lections having jumped from 13
billions to 22 billions throughout
the nation.
For the state of Washington
alone the increase was 127.4 per
cent. The amount collected there
advanced from 126 millions to 287
millions. The total for the dis
trict (Washington and Alaska)
for the last fiscal year was $291,
970.440.31. ,
Reason for Drop
Principal reason why Alaska
showed such a small percentage
increase is that corporation in
come taxes dropped half a mil
lion dollars—from $730,859 to I
$227,312, a decrease of 68.9 per
cent. Washington, however,
showed an increase of 41 percent,
making a net increase of 38.3 per
cent for the district. Only one
collection district showed any loss
—Pittsburgh district in Pennsyl
vania, for 7.8 percnt.
Alaska’s decrease in this kind
of tax was due to the fact that
some large corporations have
ceased operating during the
emergency and others have
moved their offices Outside and
: are filing returns elsewhere.
Individual income tax collec
, tions here increased 19.5 percent
| (from $2,463,706 to $2,943,572)
1 but not quite enough to offset
I the corporation loss, so the in
come tax collections showed a
decline of less than one percent.
Alaska Is Sixth
From the standpoint of miscel-1
laneous internal revenue includ- j
i ing excess profits, only five dis
tricts had a larger percentage J
increase than Alaska. These tax
es in the Territory soared from
j $442,360 to $1,332,887, or 201.3
percent. The increase nationally
was 88.2 percent.
Employment taxes in Alaska ad
vanced from $378,608 to $440,906,
or 16.4 percent. The national in
crease was 16.4 percent and for
the whole district of Washington
! and Alaska, 62.5 percent. These
figures, too, were affected by the
filing elsewhere of returns cov
ering employment in Alaska.
Percentage increases for Alas
ka were heaviest last year and
two years ago. Total collections
here went from $975,799 in 1940
to $1,550,680 in 1941 and to $4,
015,534 in 1942, for successive
increases of 59 and 159 percent, i
Admission—Dues
Taxes on general admissions
and club dues in Alaska jumped
from $60,930 for the 1942 fiscal
year to $172,454 for the 1943 fis
cal year, ending June 30.
The increase amounted to
111,524, or 183 percent. Through
out the nation the increase was
32 percent.
Figures on collection of mis
cellaneous taxes in Alaska were
reported recently by Clark Squire
collector of Internal Revenue for
the district of Washington and
Alaska, with headquarters in Ta
corpa.
For the fiscal year 1940 the
admission taxes in Alaska was
only $26,026. In that year the
tax on telephone and telegraph
messages was $2,040, but it
mounted to $35,682 for the fiscal
year just closed. The amdtmt
collected on safe deposit boxes
increased from $605 in 1940 to
$2,728 in 1943.
Subscribe to the Nugget.
POINT HOPE GETS
NEW MINISTER
FAIRBANKS — Bishop J. B.
Bentley and Mrs. Bentley of Ne
nana and the Rev. William Jones
Gordon, Jr, and Mrs. Gordon of
Seward visited in Fairbanks en
route to Point Hope on the Arctic
coast, where the Rev. Mr. Gordon
will take charge of the Episco
pal Mission.
The Rev. Mr. Gordon, who is
25 years old and has been min
ister in charge of the church at
Seward since March 1, was mar
ried at Seward July 16 to Miss
Frances Lewis. July 24 he was
advanced to the priesthood at St.
Mark’s Church in Nenana by
Bishop Bentley.
At his new post, Mr. Gordon
will succeed Archdeacon Freder
ick W. Goodman, D. D., who is
retiring after 18 years of service
at Point Hope.
Mr. Gordon is a native of North
Carolina and a graduate of North
Carolina University and of the
Episcopal Theological Seminary,
in Virginia.
THE LITERARY
GUIDEPOST
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By JOHN SELBY
“WHAT TO DO WITH ITALY”,
by Gaetano Salvemini and
George La Piana (Duell, Sloan
& Pearce; $2.75),
One of the unlucky things
about publishing books is the
time lag between the day the
manuscript is finished and the
day the book goes on sale. In a
world whose tempo is presto, the
lag can do great damage. It has
done just this with the most im
portant and most sane book on
Italy I have seen in a long time
—“What to Do With Italy,” by
Gaetano Salvemini and George
La Piana. Salvemini is a refugee
from what used to be called Mus
solini’s fascism. La Piana is Pro
fessor of Church History at Har
vard. Both men are dangerous to
fascism because each has brains
and each has knowledge.
But their book was completed
when things were only begin
ning in North Africa, and al
though it is supplied with an
afterword dated July 8, 1943,
this was still too early to ,atch
the result of the Sicilian opera
tions. The public is unfomately
likely to think that events in
Italy have outmoded Messrs. Sal
vemini and La Piana’s writing,
whereas they have only pointed
it it up.
The book is wntten from the
thesis that the Italian people were
betrayed, not only by the wealthy
and the Italian military, but by
people like you and me. Musso
lini was six years crushing Italy
1 into the mold he had chosen fbr
| it and during most -of this time
1 the world appeared to feel that
closer adherence to timetables
; was the be-all and end-all of the
J matter.
j And perhaps even more im
I portant is what the two men have
to say about the Church and fas—
; cism in Italy. It is possible that
a more complete and better rea
soned study of this complicated
and dangerous subject has been
printed, but if so, I have not seen
it. Obviously the authors feel
i the Church, or more exactly, the
Vatican, has played with fire in
; the matter. But any statement
of so delicate a matter cannot be
condensed into a paragraph and
I have no intention of trying.
There are dozens of important
points beside, and not the least
of these is the authors’ insistence
that we make it clear to Italy,
now, that we are not planning to
salvage the House of Savoy if
the people of Italy do not want
it. What used to be called Arngot
could use a few hundred copies
of “What to Do With Italy.”
CLAUDETTE COOKS
Claudette Colbert the motion
picture star, has a new trick for
meatless Tuesdays and Fridays.
She serves patties made from this
recipe: Peel and boil three pota
toes in salted water until done.
Mash the potatoes and add two
beaten eggs, one cup of walnuts,
milk, salt and pepper to taste.
Shape into patties and fry in
peanut oil until golden brown.
Tell them you saw it advertised
in The Nugget.
WHAT IT MEANS
BATTLE OF
CARGO SHIPS
By ROBERT M. FARRINGTON
WASHINGTON — We have
won another great naval battle
against the Japs—a piece-meal
battle that is still being fought,
but just as real as the smashing
victories at Midway and in the
Coral sea.
It is the battle of merchant
shipping.
We are sinking about three
Jap ships for every one built
and this crushing rate of destruc
tion could force the Japs into
withdrawing from Wake Island,
Rabaul and the Marshall islands,
though not without a fight.
After a heavy raid such as at
Marcus island, the Japs have to
send fresh supplies and equip
ment to repair the damage.
Knowing this, our submarines lie
in wait and sink the cargo ships
which are now almost as precious
as warships to the Japs.
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Because she badly needs ship
ping to get ready for the allied
drive on Burma and to bring
home raw ,aterials from Malaya
and the Dutch East Indies, Ja
pan may have to stop reinforc
ing her outermost bases and with
draw her forces (as at Kiska) or
abandon them to futile death (as
at Attu).
Japan started the war with s
6,400,000 tons of shipping’ the
the third largest merchant fleet
in the world (Britain first; U. S.
second). By seizure of foreign
ships and new construction, she *
is believed to have increased this
to 7,500,000.
In the 21 months since Pearl
Harbor, and more particularly in
the past six months, we have
sent one-third of this fleet to the
bottom—2,500,000 tons.
No nation, and certainly not
one with the material shortages
of Japan, can stand body-blows
such as this for long. Even by
overloading ships and postponing
drydocking and repairs indefi
nitely, as she has done since 1940,
it is doubtful whether Japan has A
enough shipping for the 2,000
mile run to Rabaul, the 4,500 to
Rangoon and To her thousand is
land strongholds, all at the same
time.
There is no hope for Japan in
balancing her losses against new
construction as we have tried to
do in the battle of the Atlantic.
Japanese shipbuilding has been a
closely guarded secret since 1939,
but about 500,000 tons a year,
which is more than her pre-war
peak, appears to be a fair esti
mate.
Because of a shortage of steel
(they aren’t getting U. S. scrap
any more), the Japs have been
blilding wooden ships, but it is
the essential shortage of ship
building facilities and the hun
dreds of component parts such
as valves tubes, gauges, oil cups
etc. which constitute an unbreak
able bottleneck. 4
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