The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1941, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MONDAY MARCH 17, TAX KIllED BY HOUSE Representatives Return fo| Consideration of In- come Tax Bill gainst the opposition of Reps. Jam- es V. Davis, Harvey J. Smith and Almer J. Peterson. i nese three finally wore the rest 01 llw House down to a point where journ until 8:30 o'clock at which time the bill would be a special order of business IN THE SENATE this moy 1 following the armory bill, was agreed upon. Adjournment Roll Calls Nineteen roll- calls were taken KILLED—S. J. M. 8, by Coffey, asking Congress to pass the Di- 5 ’ 5 mond bill for gradual elimination durmg consideration of the bill of fish traps over a five-year per- s wwiuay night. Most of them were | joq. vote 4-4. tallen on motions by either Davis,| paASSED—H B. 63, by Peterscn | smiith or Peterson to adjowrn. Vari- | py request, to appropriate $30 to ous times of adjournment suggest- repnay Mrs. Anna M.. Chilberg for ed and voted down were 11 o'clock | fynds escheated to the Territory Mondsy. 8 o'clock Monday, 8:15 0'- from a bank deposit. | clock Monday, 7 o'clock Monday,) pASSED—Senate substitute for Killing a cigarette tax bill by a vote 8:30 0'c locl Monday, 6 o'clock Mon- gupstitute for H. B. 40, by Peter- of eight to eight, the House of Re- day and 7:30 o'clock Monday. A gon, to allow judgment debtors an| presentatives this afterr 1 went motion to :\(I_]mun is always in or- exemption of $150 per month. i back to consideration of the income der and these motions had to be paSSED—Subsitute for S.B. 11, tax bill disposed of by roll’ call before Rep- by Roden, to approprite $2,093.30 to From 8 c'clock Saturday evening resentatives could return to con- pay J. A. Bulger, A. M. Geyer, Dun- until 3:30 o'cleck this af m, the sideration of the bill. can Sinclair, C. W. ergfit and N. Hcuse had read 22 pa of the The amendment cutting the rate Lester Troast for a heating plant g1-page income tax bill. It must b® to one and one-half percent car- installed in the Territorial Building read and passed today in order to get into the Senate without a two- thirds vote in that body. The cigarette tax bill of the House Ways and Means Committee ¥ finally brought out on the floor after a three-member filibuster had al but halted progress on the income tax measure. On motion of Rep. Al- mer J. Peterson of Anchorage, the cigarette levy was cut from one and cne-half mills per cigarette to one mill (two cents a package) before the whole bill was killed by a tie vote of eight to eight sh Trap Boost One revenue measure was passed by the House today. It es the license tax on fish traps from $200 to $300 per year, a move which Harvey Smith, author of the bill, claims will increase Territorial re- venues by $45,000 per year Representatives returned to the jncome tax bill apparently as a last resort for raising revenue. As amend- ed up to now, the bill provides for a flat one and one-half percent tax on personal net income instead of on a graduated scale from two to five percent gs in the original bill) and a flat four percent tax on corpdbra- tion income. Late this afternoon the House amended the depletion provision of the bill to make it identical with the Federal act. Under the amend- ed act, a mine may continue to take depletion of 15 percent per year even after the full capital outlay has been taken in depletion. The amend- ment was proposed by Rep. Charles Herbert of Fairbanks and adopted almost unanimously. Night Session * Consideration of the income bill, House Bill No. 120, began at a | when the | Airways, and his family are bound | night session Saturday, measure was advanced to the cal- endar by a 13 to three vote. Thirteen to three continued the vote on all suggested amendments that evening, as the majority made painfully slow progress through the measure tax While the Yukon was in port. vote of 11 to five. A pefore that building was the prop- | motion by Davis to raise the tax erty of the Territory. on corporation net income from PASSED—S.B. 9, by Sullivan, to four to ten percent was left dan- require foreign corporations to file gling at final adjournment at 10:40 amended articles. o'clock Saturday night. PASSED—Substitute for S.B. 55! Davis declared consitderation of and 67—To pay airplane operators‘ the bill by the House to be “un- for emergency transportation of fair, unAmerican and undemocrat- indigents. ic,” complaining that he was not KILLED—S.B. 75, by Brownell, w familiar with features of the legis- extend unemployment compensation lation. to employers of four or more per- Foregoes Devotions !sons (instead of eight or more as When asked if he would look the | at present); vote 4-4. PASSED — S.B. 40, by Brownell, ried by a bill over during the weekend so he would be able to consider it defining the powers of mayors and Monday morning, he raised his | councils. { right hand and swore he would; PASSED—SB. 17, by Nordale, to “even forego devotions” for that extend workmen’s compensation to purpose. officers and employees of the Ter- Opposing a motion to take up the ! Fitory. g | cigarette and fish trap taxes ahead e { of the income tax bill on Saturday | night, Chairman Allen Shattuck of MA" Hm m Km" the Ways and Means Committee said he was not satisfied passage of those bills would produce the necessary revenue. “If we could put on a show like FOR GAME VIOLATION Ward C. Showalter pf Kenai was this every Saturday night, we would not have an tax troubles,” Rep. Frank Whaley of Nome declared at cne stage in saturde.ys proceedl.ngs FAIRBANKS PILOT - AND FAMILY BOUND OUTSIDE ON YUKON fined $100 and sentenced to 30 days in jail, according to word re-, ceived by the Juneau Game Com-| mission office. Showalter pleaded: guilty to a game violation, One front quarter and one hind quar- ter of moose meat was confiscated by the Court and given to a Gov- ernment field nurse for dlstrlbu-‘ tion to local Kenai indigents, He was arrested by deputy U. S., Marshal Ray S. Avery and was sentenced in Kenai Commissioner’s Court by U. S. Commissioner Doug- las Duncan. | TENAKEE POSTMASTER HERE Here from Tenakee on a routine ‘busine&s trip and to have a new B o | propeller put on his motorship, Fred state’s rural areas | Brandes, postmaster at Tenakee, is grew faster in population during|registered at the Gastineau Hotel. 1930-40 period than its urban sesibmmpbidiipdPers-ruin areas, the 16th census shows. ' Empire C‘assififid% Payl 1 Mr. and Mrs. Herman Lerdahl and son, Herman, Jr., of Fairbanks, were brief visitors in Juneau last evening Lerdahl, pilot for Wein Alaska outside for an indefinite visit. New York Don’t Forget to Order Your Copy of THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 1941 Progress Edition Celebrating Alaska’s Discovery and the Fish Industry Gift-Wrapped and Mailed for 25¢ Aund Hany More Articles Too Numerons o Mention Telephone 374 Today THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE off the press SOON R T Order Your Copy Today! FEATURING: Alaska’s Industries Scenery Sport Activities Vacation Lands Government Statistics | / Population Liberally Hlustrated Special Sitka Section’ History Salmon Industry Mountaineering |after the Senate rejected, I94I Count Bonacossa, president of the in one of the military cars Germany uses to transport infantry. Berlin, Cars like this were used in the Nazis" is shown in the rear seat enjoying a rough ride The scene is the proving grounds near lightning thrust through the Low Countries last year, Automobile Club of Italy, IN THE HOUSE PASSED—H. B. 95, the genonl appropriation bill for a total of $4.- 485,852 to run Territorial offices | | for the next biennium. PASSED—H. B. 104, by Lander, :making a technical amendment to the statute relating to bill of ex-| ceptions, KILLED—H, B. 117, by Shattuck for a $60 pension for disabled per- sons entitled to old age assistance; vote 4-12. PASSED—H. J. M. 21, by Egan, asking construction of a highway on the abandoned grade of & | Copper River and Northwestern Railroad. PASSED—H. J. M. 25, by Har- vey Smith, asking that the Coasl Guard station boats in Bristol Ba) | during the fishing season. KILLED—H. B.99, by Peterson, to change the fiscal year to start July| 1 instead of January 1; vote 4-12 PASSED—H. B. 101, by Egan, to raise the boat liquor license from | $100 to $500 per year. PASSED (on reconsideration) — Substitute for H.B. 67, by Jenne, giving the Territorial Department of | Public Welfare jurisdiction over child welfare and increasing from 16 to 18 the upper age limit of chil- dren affected by the law. KILLED—H.B. 118, by Ways and Means, for an excise tax of one mill on every cigarette; vote 8-8. PASSED — H.B. 112, by Harvey Smith, to raise the license tax on fish tmps from s“'oo to 3300 pm year. (OMPENSAIION ACT: EXTENDED NOME WANTS SHELL MAKES PASSAGE OF "0y homooks ARMORY B"_I_ Airways Shuttles Beilween | | Canada, Sitka and Hawk ‘Meeting Further Endorses Inlet in Busy Day " le(IiSlaflOfl fO[ Home | Flying the season's first trip to j Tulsequah on floats, pilot Shell Sim- | mens shuttled back and forth be- | tween the Canadian mining town | and Juneau today, making four trips, |carrying passengers, freight. and | Defense Program NOME, Alaska, March 16—At a meeting held Sunday in the City | to House Ways | unanimous expression of the major- | ity of Nome citizens assembled ata | the necessity and urgency of coopera- Hall by the Directors of the Cham- ber of Commerce, members of the City Council and a committee ap-| pointed at a mass meeting to con- sider and reply to telegrams receiv- ed from members of the Legislature on the subject of armories proposed to be built by the Territory, uhe fellowing wires were written The Chamber of Commerce replied | and Means Commit- tee, Allen Shattuck. Chairman: “Thanks fer your information, our Chamber is powerless to oppose the mass meeting We realize with them ticn with the Federal Government which is spending millions. Shall we be blinded by selfish interest and offer no sacrifice toward prepara- tion to defend our homes?” Mayor Wires Whaley Mayor Henry G. Miller replied to | | Representative Frank H. Whaley oI the Second Divisicn: “Nome ondox'" es armory legislation. And we urge| its passage. The city I offered co- | cperation in every w y. possible. We | reject that it means new taxes and sacrifices. We wish to be loyal and, support our overnor and Presidem.% in the defense program. Nome should | profit from past experience. We were‘ 10 OFFICIALS Senate Pass?Nordale Bill with Appropriation to Cover Employees A bill to extend the workmen's compensation act to cover officers and employees of the Territory, and $25,000 appropriation for ‘he purpose, was passed by the Sen- | ane this afternoon by a vote of five o three. Passage of this bill by Senator Hjalmer Nordale of Fairbanks came three to five, an amendment by Senator O. D. Cochran of Nome which would have deducted $250 per month from the salary of every Territorial employee \for such compensation. A much-debated bill to extend unemployment compensation to em- ployers who in 15 (instead of 20) weeks of the year employed four (instead of eight) or more employees, was killed by a vote of four to four, with Senators Nordale, Cochran, Sullivan and LaBoyteaux against. LOOKING INTO POSSIBLE ESTABLISHMENT OF MILL| James Crawford arrived here from Bend, Oregon, on the Bar- anof and will sail for the West- ward on the steamer Alaska after a brief stop over. Crawford, who has been coming north each spring since 1926 to engage in mining in the Interior, is this year looking for the pos- | sibility of establishing a mill pro=- viding an adequate timber supply is available. | "™MISS JUNEAU" BACK FROM ICE CARNIVAL Miss Valerie Pearce, “Miss Ju- neau,” returned here today on the PAA Electra from Fairbanks. While at the Golden Heart City, she attended the Ice Carnival as a representative of “good will” fmm the Capital City. all sure of Nome's destruction, but | the majority refused to grapple with the problem of fire risk. the re- 1 : ,cult is now history.” | APAASHIPS MOVETODAY After several days lay-up because of bad weather on the Coast and in the Interior, 21 passengers flew north this afternoon in three PAA Electras, ' One Electra landed from Fairbanks late this afternoon with six passeng- ers for Juneau. The northbound Lockheed Lode- star was still grcunded in Prince, George late this afternoon as w. the Douglas DC-3 in Whitehorse. | Both planes are expected to arrive in Juneau today, weather permitting. Passengers arriving in Juneau on/ board the southbound Electra are Jack Carlyle, Valerie Pearce, Ever- ett Nowell, Mrs. Coons, June Ander- son and Eleanor Peterson. Passengers leaving for the north were E. A. Troberg, John Haverlick, | J. Keterines, W. H. Evans,’ Jce Al- /bue, Roy Schwasdall, Mrs. Anna Schwasdall and baby, Ed Ncllette, | Emil Lauren, Fred Torsak, John Hoen, Charles Lewis, Mrs. Edna Lewis, Robert Raichlen, T. C. Nel- | son, J. A. Gustafson, Andrew John- | son, Oscar Gudbranson, Robert | Schwasdall and Martin Bakstrom. | New Schedule By Air fo Alaska Starls : SEATTLE, March 17. — The Pacific Alaska’ Airways today 2nnounced star tof the iwice wekly “breakfast-dinner” sched- ule beginning Thursday from Se- . attle to Fairbanks via Juneau. The flight time is expected to be | 10 hours and 55 minutes. —————————— MRS. COUNCIL SOUTH TO VISIT PARENTS Mrs. W. W. Council sailed south cn the steamer Yukon and will spend |some time visiting with her parents i tne state of-washington. MRS. mail. Pilot Alex Helden carried four pas- | sengers to Sitka in a flight to the Coast today and is scheduled to re- turn this afterncon with five from | the island tewn. Passenzers to Sitka | were E. Whitehead, A. Van Mavern, A. T. Hutchinson and Hal Fairhurst. | Late this afternoon Simmons is| islated to fly a charter trip to Hawk Inlet with Mrs. W. S. Pekovich and family. Yesterday the airways com- pany Sitka and returned with five. carried five passengers to! e RICHEY SAILS SOUTH AFTER VISIT Mrs. Marion Richie, who has been visiting here for the past few weeks with | Frank Foster, steamer Yukon. Mr. and Mrs. south on the her parents, sailed Shifted by Army (Ww Maj. Gen. Collins Maj. Gen. James L. Collins, above, has been assigned to command the Puerto Rican department with headquarters at San Juan. Gen- eral Collins at present is in com- mand of the Second division, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He will suc- eeed Maj. Gen. Edmund L. Daley at San Juan. L e ALL ALIKE? No other ice cream can compare with JUNEAU DAIRIES'. ‘With any flavor of JUNEAU DAIRIES' you'll eat every drop! JUNEATU DAIRIES | { York Central 12%, Northern Pacif- | Pound $4.08%. jat 4% THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU 1 Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Mar. Occasional light rain tonight andTuesday; little change in temp: ture; lowest temperature tonight about 33 degrees, highest Tuesday 39 degrees; light to gentle variablz wind. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Mostly cloudy but with occasion- al light rain tonight and Tuesday, little change in temperature ex- cept slightly colder tonight in sou h portions; gentle to moderate southerly to southeasterly winds, b coming gentle variable Tuesday. ! Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alaska Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Cloudy; moderate southerly (o southwesterly winds; Cape Spence: to Cape Hinchinbrook: Mosily cloudy; moderate southerly to soutieasterly winds; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: Occasional riin; moderate to fresh southerly to | southeasterly winds; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: Occasional light rain;, moderate to fresh easterly t) southeasterly winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather ( 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.92 38 90 s 6 Lt. Rain, 4:30 am. today 29.717 37 94 5 5 i Noon today 20.74 39 91 w 3 RADIO REPORTS TODAY. | Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30a.m Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24 hours Weather Barrow e -19 -17 4 Clear Fairbanks 31 A 5 9 0 Cloudy Nome .31 25 28 iy Lt. Snow Dawson 16 1 1 0 Clear Anchorage .38 | 28 29 [ Cloudy Bethel .. 85 25 26 0 Cloudy St. Paul ... . 27 19 23 0 Clear Atka ... . 43 31 32 0 Clear Dutch Harbor .. 36 31 31 04 Cloudy ‘Wosnesenski 34 32 33 o Snow Kanatak 44 40 40 15 Clear Kodiak 42 34 36 04 Cloudy Cordova 43 33 35 1.37 Rain Juneau I [ 35 3 50 Rain Sitka 45 38 .4 54 Dr Ketchikan 4 40 42 1.09 Rain Prince Rupert ".. 48 41 4“4 o) Rain Prince George .. 47 28 28 [ Clear Seattle 65 38 40 0 Smoky Portland .. 68 36 40 [ Fog San Francisco .. 61 51 54 0 Cloudy WEATHER SYNOPSIS Rain or snow was falling thi; morning over Southeast Alaska, in Prince Willilam Sound, and at s)me points in the Alasko Peninsu- la, Bering Sea and Seward Peninsu a region, and partly cloudy or cloudy skies prevailed elsewhere ov:r Alaska except in the extreme northern portion, where skies were cléar, Comparatively warm, moi air from the north Pacific was moving northward over Alaska with r sulting warmer temperatures and cloudy skies. Rain or snow was re- ported during the past 24 hours at all stations in Southeast Alaska, and along the coast from Southeas: Alaska to the Aleutian Islands, and at some points in the Bering S:a and Seward Peninsula, with the greatest amount reported, 1.37 incies at Cordova, The lowest fex perature reported this morning was minus 17 at Barrow. Over b skies with light rain and some fog and moderately low to low ceilings and visibilities .prevailed this morn ng over the Juneau- Ketchikan air- way. The Monday morning weather chart indicated a low center of north and 159 985 millibars (29.09 inches) was located at 50 degre degrees west; a second low center of 1003 millibars (29.62 inches) was located at 47 degrees north and 13} degrees west; a third low center of 990 millibars (29.23 inches) was located near Bristol Bay. A higi center of about 1026 millibars (30.3) inches) was located east of A aska; a second high center of 1027 millibars (30.33 inches) wg cated at 32 degrees north and 15) degrees west; a third high co ter of 1028 millibars (30.35 inches) was located at 30 degrees nor and 175 degrees west. Juneau, March 18.—Sunrise 7:08 a.m., sunset 7:06 p.m. [P O S MRS CALIFORNIA Grocery and Meat Market 478—PHONES—371 High Quality Foods at Moderate Prices NEW YORK, March 17.—Closing | quotation of American Can today| is 85%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 80, Commonwealth and South- ern 11/16, Curtiss Wright 9%, Gea- eral Motors 43%, International Har- vester 49%, Kennecott 33 3/4, New - “HORLUCK’S DANISH” I Ice Cream Flavors Peppermint Candy, Fudge Ripple, Rum Royal,' Cocoanut Grove, Lemon Custard, Black Cherry, Caramel Petan, Black Walnut, Raspberry Ripple, New York, Rock Road, Chocolate, Strawberry and Vanilla— at the GUY SMITH DRUG CENTRAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY ic 6, United States Steel 57%, DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 123.69, rails 28.06, utilities 19.71. PRICES ON SATURDAY Alaska Juneau mine stock closed last Saturday, American Cani 86 17/8, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 179%, Commonwealth and Southern 11/16, Curtiss Wrght 9%, General Motors 43%, International Harvester 482, Kennecott 33%, New York €entral 12%, Northern Pacif- ic 6%, United Stales Steel 58!, Baltimore, Md. Pound $4.03%. , T ” S 1 The U. S. Army’s most scasoncd‘ nlol.n u. BATES ipilots are being given special @ ' AGENT-—Phone 321 training at Wright Fneld in high- altitude’ flying. O PHONE 374 GLACIER HIGHWAY DELIVERY Room 1—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 374 “SHORTY" WHITFIELD o