The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1939, Page 8

FIRE DANGER | GREAT, SAYS DEPT. CHIEF, Equipmentitgflequate for Profection - Truck Immediate Need Shocking inadequacy of Juneau Pire Department equipment was demonstrated in the Goldstein Bullding fire, the City Council was told last night by Fire Chief V. W Mulvihill, who urged that steps be taken immediately to bring the ap- paratus here up to date. The Goldstein Building, Chief Mulvihill said, was considered far from being the most dangerous in town from a fire standpoint. Many | other structures here will burn with money to repay Felix Andrea for| greater speed and more disastrous effects, he declared. | An immediate need, the Chief said, is a new fire truck to be added to equipment already in use. He! estimated cost of a combination ladder and pumper truck such as is reguired here at $7,00 - 20 Years Old The present fire truck is 20 years old @nd is nearly obsolete, Mulvihill | said, He recommended its retention, | however, for emergency use if two fires, broke out in the City at one time. Council authorized Chief Mulvihill to obtain information and pricés on a new truck | ,Aubwher need is new fire masks, these now belonging to the Depart- mént having proved “absolutely warthless” in the Goldstein Build- ing fire, the Chief said. He recom- | menfed “throwing the present masks | insthe bay.” | L s Fire Net Dangerous | ‘!‘a,a suggestion that the City buy a fife net, the Chief angwered that | he, ‘gd been convinced by OMiefs in large cities Outside uf there were 15 trained men | tozhandle such a net and to drill regularly in its use, more people | woul@ be killed jumping than would bessaved. years ago, the Chief said, the !‘l;e_,: Department had requested fuhds to buy a fire ladder but were tdified down. The volunteer fire- menethereupon contributed $350 out | oft fheir own pockets to buy the| ladgér. That ladder, the Chief de-| clared, was used in the Goldstein fire to carry two trapped persons, from the burning building. “If we hadn't had the have been burned to death.” TODAY in the HOUSE Bills Introduced House Bill Committee on Labor, Capital and Immigration, changing jurisdictfon of the Work- mens Compensation Act and mak- ing it compulsory. House Bill 88, Dowd and Porter, asking Second Division airplane field monies. House Bill 89, Dowd and Porter, asking money for Kotzebue Air- field House Bill 90, Dowd and Porter, | asking road and airfield monies for Candle. House Bill 91, relative to licens- ing peddlers and hawkers. House Bill 92, Rogge, asking funds to maintain and repair Ter- ritorial Building in Juneau House Bill 93, Rogge, asking burial of Sam Callahan. House Concurrent Resolution No. 1, Walker, asking Congressional In- vestigation of the Bureau of Fish- eries. Bills Passed Senate Joint Memorial No. 3, con- demning the report of the National Resources Committee. Senate Bill 38, relative to dura- tion of chattel mortgage liens. Senate Joint Memorial No. 2 asking Federal assistance in elim- inating wolves from Mount Mec- Kinley Park Senate power to neries. Senate Bill 23, relative to indus trial and agricultural fairs. MELODY SHOP IS tax native-owned can- MOVING LOCATION| Planning to be opened for busi- Fire | ness in their new location on Front | : : that | gireet in the Old First National | through the bullding, creating alaqu)y and there rests upon the tax- Bank building, the Juneau Melody Shop is now engaged in the pro- cess of transporting the stock and bottled goods from their present location at 135 Franklin Street. The shop has been in the present and at site for five years plans operate permanently store. Doors will be opened in the new store by next Wednesday - Forty-three University of Georgia ladder,” | co-eds were able to get room and Mulvihill said, “there is no doubt‘buard at a cooperative 4-H cluhl in my mind those two persons would home for $10.37 a month during the | 1938-39 term. ld TEACHER’S Joint Memorial 6, asking | musical THE MYSTERIOUS 'MAN SOUGHT, ~ ED.R'S TRIP; Secret ServEAgenis and State Police Look for | Suspicious Character FLORIDA CITY, Fla., Feb. 18. ecret Service agents and State Police today searched the | underbrush beside President | Rocsevelt's train, for a man | seen moving mysteriously just befere the President left for | Key West by motor. The man darted into the bushes as the police rushed up. The Secret Service put a heavy guard alongside the | roadside where the man dis- appeared and search was con- tinuing when the President left. Extra precautions were taken on the trip from the time the Precident left the White House until he was safe aboard the cruiser Houston. POST OFFICE | | | DOORS (LOSE | | | Effective next Monday, the Seward | | street doors to the entrance of the | | Federal and Territorial Building will {be closed from 11:45 to 12 noon and | | from 3 to 4 o'clock in the afternoon. | | Postmaster Albert Wile, Custodian | \of the building, says: ! “School children, both young and, old, are using the Post Office en-| |trance for a regular thoroughlare“ | noise and commotion that is unbear- | able. The children race through the halls, down stairs and have gener- | ally become a nuisance not only to | those in the Post Office but in other sections of the building, as well as the general public. I am therefore going to lock the Seward Street en- the ne‘v(: | trance for 15 minutes before the noon | hour and for one full hour, 3 to 4, in the afternoon.” | | 'VESPER HOUR BE HELD TOMORROW Another of the Vesper Hour ser- " |vices will be held tomorrow eve- ning at the Northern Light Pres- byterian Church with Ernst Oberg at the organ for the services, and the young people’s choir singing favorite hymns. Topic for the evening will be | “East and West Meet,” which will take in interesting points of China, | Japan and Korea. FLASKA M DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE Federal Income Refurns A taxpayer, though single, who| supports and maintains in one household one or more individuals who are closely connected with him | by blood relationship, relationship by marriage, or by adoption, and whose right to exercise family con- | trol and provide for these depen- dent individuals is based upon some moral or legal obligation, is the head of a family and entitled to the same exemption allowed a married person—$2,500. Also he may claim a $400 credit for each dependent, if such dependent per- son is‘under 18 years of age or is by reason of advanced age or poor health (mental or physical) incapable of self-support. For example, a widower who supports in one house- hold an aged mother and a daugh- ter 17 years old is entitled to an exemption of $2,500 as the head of a family plus a credit of $400 for each dependent, a total of $3300. The $400 credit, however, does not | apply to the wife or husband of a taxpayer, though one may be to- tally dependent upon the other. Several factors are involved in determining whether a person who files a return as the head of a fam- | tily is to be thus classified. The ele- ment of either legal or financial dependency must exist. A taxpayer who supports in his home minor children over whom he exercises family control is classified as the head of a family, even though the children may have an income of their own sufficient for their main-, tenance. If he does not support| them, by reason of their own in- come, but does exercise family con- trol, he cannot be classified as the head of -a family. If an individual supported is an payer a moral or legal obligation to provide a home and care for such individual, the exemption as the head of a family is allowed, provided the individual is financi- ally dependent. If the individual is not financially dependent, the exemption, even though the tax- payer maintains the common home and furnishes the chief support, does not apply. For income-tax purposes there can be only one head of a family| and the exemption cannot be di- vided. Not infrequently claims for | the $2,500 exemption are received | from two or more members of a | family. It should be remembered that| a single person, whether or not the head of a family, is required to file a return if his or her net income for 1938 was $1,000 or more, regardless of whether the return is nontaxable by reason of the $2,- 500 exemption. HOUSE GIVEN SATURDAY, FEB. 18, 193 iR BOAT HARBOR . | T0 POUR NEW WEALTH HERE AdvantagesTf Develop- ment Is Cited af City Council Session Millions of dollars will pour into Juneau as a result of construction of the small boat harbor, now under way, it was declared last night by fishermen attending the City Coun- cil meeting. Bob Burns of the Alaska Trollers’ Association predicted that 3,000 fish- ing boats would touch at Juneau each year henceforth as a result ox‘ the boat harbor’s establishment. Councilmen passed an ordinance authorizing issue of $48400 in gen- eral obligation bonds, as voted by the citizens, to finance the City's share | in the harbor’s completion. Engineer Coming James Truiff, Government En- gineer, is a passenger on the North Coast for Juneau where he will in- spect progress on the harbor andj| make arrangements for calling bids for dredging the basin. Truitt is the son of Attorney General James S.| Truitt. Army Engineers have agreed to a request of the City, Mayor Harry 1. Lucas said, to call for alternatej bids on bucket dredging and suc- tion dredging of the harbor. The City desires that the work be done by suction dredge so that dredging spoils can be pumped over the bulk- head now being built at the rear of the harbor to form a land .fill. Mayor Lucas said he had been in-| 15 cheaply by suction dredge as by | ucket dredge. It is the City’s plan| iredge bids prove higher. Three Boats Arrive Among those speaking briefly on the advantages of the boat harbor! was Harold Aase of the Deep Sea, Rishermen’s Union who said news! of the harbor’s construction has al-! ready brought three new halibut boats to Juneau. These boats, hav- ing a value of $20,000, employ 14 men and will catch more than $30,- | 000 worth of fish in a season, Aase | said. He asked that the city furnish | running water, toilets, life rings,| lights and pikepoles at the harbor. A request of Jack Wilson of the| Alaska Trollers Ass dredging rof the bar channel so that boa clation was for in the upper from Icy| | Straits, Chatham Strait and Lynn| Canal could come to Juneau with- out having to make the long trip around Douglas Island. The bar, only a mile long, could be dredged | in four days by a firm with modern equipment, he stated. | 1,500 Boats Boats in Southeast Alaska which would use the Juneau harbor were enumerated by Burns as follows: Trolling boats, 805, valued at $1,- 610,000. { Halibut boats, 185, value $3,330,000. Seine boats, 533, value $2,282,000. | He said there were 5800 boats PARTIES TO MAKE HUNT | BY CHARTS Pre(autionfien fo Pre- vent Scouring Same Area Twice (Continuea trom Page One) part of the day in the morning with Don Harwick as observer. Weather at the area was poor visibility with drifting clouds. There was a slight precipitation and a ris- ing wind this afternoon. Now for six days missing some- where in an area described roughly as 256 square miles radius of Grand Island are Pilot Lon Cope with five pasengers, E. E. Ek, Juneau; John Chappell, Juneau; Earl Clifford, Ju- neau; George Chamberlain, Anchor- age, and Jack Lennon of Wrangell. No Indications The lost Marine Airways plane equipped with Very pistols for the firing of signal rockets disappeared in a mysterious fashion 10 minute: out of Juneau last Sunday after- noon. Since that date approximately 200 men in planes, on foot and in boats have combed the area and have found no trace, either on land or water. No passenger baggage, plane fabric or other item has been seen floating on top of the water. No fires or signal rockets or brok- have been spotted. Visibility yesterday allowed utely cover the section and investi- gate at close hand details ob- scured by plane speed from air ob- Servors. e SENATE REFUSES T0 PUT TOBACCO IN RUM STORES Mixers, Chewing Gum and Candy Also Verboten -Long Calendar (Continued Trom Page One) ator Cochran declared such a move would be “a great step backwards” and would have the effect of allowing the sale of liquor in all stores. Sen- ator Sullivan explained he proposed the amendment in order to show his opposition to the bill. Welfare Records Another bill indefinitely postponed today was Senate bill No. 41 which Icinl Security Board. A letter from the latter agency explaining the purpose | of the bill was described by Senator Cochran as “just as clear as mud.” The Senate passed by a vote of five to three Senator Joe Hofman’s Senate bill No. 30, regulating rail- roads, after the Third Division solon jexplained its purpose was to combat autocratic and arbitrary manage- | ment of the Alaska Railroad. Sen- ator Hofman said the bill's provis- | lons that two men must be provid- |ed on each gas car and other car- | rier because experience had proved {“one man alone on a coach is about { as useless as a man who has no legs |1s in a footrace.” | Three much-amended and thor- oughly-rewritten House measures | were passed. They are Rep. James | Davis' House bill 29 setting up a | Pioneers’ Home Trust Fund; Davis | House bill 13 restricting travel out- side Alaska by Territorial officials, and Rep. H. H. McCutcheon’s res- |olution honoring the late Edward W. Griffin by naming the Kodiak | General Hospital the Griffin Memor- ial Hospital. No Bronze Plaque | The last measure as passed con- |tained no provision for an appro- | priatnion for a bronze plaque for the hospital, merely requiring that the | building be marked with its new name. | Defeated on final passage when | the Senate split four to four in the | vote was House joint memorial No. 22, Rep. Frank Gordon’s plea that the organic act be amended to change the residence requirement | for divorce from two years to one. | Nepotism Bill Doomed | Senator Roden’s nepotism bill | found the Senate divided four to four on proposed amendments, on a motion to postpone it indefinitely |and on a move to advance it to fin-| The bill would prohibit | ;al passage. | Territoriy officials to give employ- formed that the work could be done|en trees signifying a ground landing | ment to relatives, After a motion |to change the fine for infraction | Two other Senate bills sailed by second reading without difficulty. They are Senator Roden's Senate bill No. 51, providing that persons called for jury duty be paid $1, and Senator Rivers' Senate bill No. 53, relating to garnishment. Three measures were continued in second reading. They are Senate committee substitute for House bill No. 47, licensing junk dealers; House bill No. 16, directing calling of bids | on all purchases of $50 or more, and House joint memorial No. 1, the mer- ‘chnm marine “foreign shipping” | measure. | The Senate adjourned until 11 o'clock Monday morning. | SES AR, g SR O NORLITEMEN DINNER iS TUESDAY NIGHT Reservations for the Norlitemen dinner are now being made, and may be had by calling 373 not later than Monday night. The monthly affair will take place Tuesday evening at 6:30 o'clock in the Parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, with Mrs, Vena Crone in charge of the dinner. Main event of the evening will be a debate on the question, resolved, that “Alaska should have a Nation- al Guard.” Those on the affirma- tive side are Paul Danzig and George Sundborg; on the negative, Maurice Johnson and Sherwood Wirt. Judges for the evening’s debate will be Judge J. F. Algxander, George W. Folta and Charles W. Hawkesworth, e 3 MAIL T0 BE SENT SOUTH, NORTHLAND Mail will be dispatched for the south on the Northland which goes south from Juneau on the present trip. As the time of arrival and departure is uncertain, Postmaster alfrom $250 to $50 was lost, Senator (Wile urges letter-writers to 3zet pay the difference between the|thorough reconnaisance of the sec- | Cochran proposed making the penal- | their mail in early. Mail will close wo types of work if the suction|tion but produced no results. Hope |ty “death without benefit of c]gmy_"‘for the Northland several hours {of finding trace of the lost ship now | The bill will come up for final pas- i rests with land parties who will min- | sage next week. before the vessel oils because it must be weighed, etc, as no mail clerk is aboard. | the MARCH OF TIME because Withdrawal privileges. CURRENT RATES éu)oe'cwt }aomllé : ;lAVOUR; Teacher's never varie! ‘QUAI.ITY. 32 Constant through MARDI-GRAS the years. TASTE .:.Smooth—just right! STURDINESS. ;. Men like quality. BOUQUET.:. Teacher's is _‘ANG...Dofinlhly there in balanced flavour. say “TEACHER®S?!” Life at — i 3 i | i i 2 i its hearty pleasant. Teacher's 86 PROOF ) [ sotE u. 5. AGENTS; Schieffelin & Co., NEW YORK CITY . IMPORTERS SINCE 1794 | “Get that Mellow Feelin’® > MARIAN BORDERS Positively in the ““Groove® with “Solid” Swing . .- . Enjoy Her Variety Program .. Have the time of Your EVERY NITE 9 P. M. DANCE Monday Night February 20 Parish Hall Given by KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Wesley Barreti's Orchesira Admission $1.00 [ | | [ | “The NORTHERN" TONITE—2:30 A. M. “The Spot Where You Find Them Al BESSIE REEDER—Hostess. “Let Yourself Go” WAC MEASURE THIS MORNING Many Bills Flood Calendar as Deadline of Ses- sion Nears (Continuec¢. from Page One) uninvited soliciting a nuisance sub- ject to fine and sets up a system of licensing for peddlers, hawkers, itin- erant merchants and auctioneers, the “merchant” term applying only to sellers at retail. House Bill 92, by Rogge, asks $17,976 for repair and maintenance of the Territorial Building in Ju- neau. House Bill 93, also by Rogge, asks $195 for Felix Andrea in the burial expenses coincident with the death of Sam Callahan at Lonesome Riv- registered in Alaska, in addition to would allow the Department of Pub- which some 200 trolling boats come |lic Welfare to withhold its records to the Territory each season from from the public. Senator Henry Ro- Outside. -|den explained he introduced the bill ————— |at the behest of the Unemployment BASKETBAL DANCE EVENT HERE TONIGHT Tonight the Basketball Dance, presented by the players and of- ficials of the City League, will be an event in the Elks Ballroom. Proceeds from the dance will help defray expenses for entertaining teams from Southeast Alaska who plan to come to Juneau for a bas- ketball tournament in the near future. Dancing will start at 10 o'clock and the public is cordially invited to attend. e————— o CONTINUED SUCCESS! On every side," Acrmni} wins hearty applause for its. flonous, full tone. Its per- lonmance is worthy of a fine |grand! For all its compact. ness, it has the exclusive | Acrosonic scale and full 88 note keyboard. , Very con- \venient terms, . % Built by Baldwin ALASKA MUSIC © SUPPLY STORES AT JUNEAU and SITKA 1 Compensation Commission and So- marches on NO ONE CAN STOP THE MARCH OF TIME, BUT WHILE IT MARCHES IT CAN BE MAKING MONEY FOR YOU. The individual who saves part of his earnings regularly and places them in our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT is making splendid use of his money is busy eevry minute earning dividends which are compounded semi-annually. Every account insured as to Safety to $5,000.00. Generous profits. o OF INTEREST 4 o ALASKA FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSN. — OF JUNEAU TELEPHONE 3 OPEN AGAIN TUESDAY DUE TO THE LATE ARRIVAL OF FIXTURES AND SUPPLIES . . BE- CAUSE OF THE SHIPPING TIE-UP . . OUR RE-OPENING HAS BEEN DELAYED BUT WE ARE NOW AGAIN READY TO A COMPLETELY RENOVATED . . 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