The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1941, Page 2

Saloon Bond, - Tax Commitfee - Bills Vefoed - Governor Issues Stafemenfl on Disannroval of Two Measures Contimzed from Page One) and normal re-| and the lack ponsibility in some com- provide such facilities, ) \ger than else- al - youngs will drift cocktail bars and saloons aken the legal ob a trend ic distinetly undesirable. The a safeguard with tamper.” on veto i proper facilities reater de tep to W o such and i should not satement Committee Vernor the Tax Reasen for Statement Fifteenth Legislatur number of bills t few days or hours consideration egislature still in session the Iy according to established T dure, communicate to it my rea- cons for veloing any bill that I dc not approve. Since the Legislature has adjourned, however, there is n Jezal requirement upon me to make public my reasons for a veto. How- ever 1 consider it proper to inform the public as to my actions cn pub- and my reasons there- the subject-matter ap me of sufficient general in ¢ vetoed Senate Bill No. 16 y create a Special Legis- mmittee, determine it membepship, define its duties anc s, make @ appropriatien anc . an emergency.’ e Bill No. 16 sets up a spe cial committee consisting of four m\n\l;(x:v of the House anc four members of the Senate, It pro- peses that this committee shall ex amine the Alaska tax structure anc tax problems and report its finding: to any special session of the legis- Jature which may be called in thc calendar year 1941 and 1942 for the purpose of enacting tax or other leg islation The provides tee may bill appropriates $5,000 and that the taxation commit- ‘employ techn: and ex- pert advisors and clerical help, pro- v quarte and facilities for the C uct of its affairs, of the affairs of any subcommittee, advisors o1 L:elp, and may provide or arrange foi transpertation of any members vicors or help nece in earrying out the work of the com- tee.’ 1t also provides that the ‘Committee shall determine the compensation for its own members.’ Nc Special Session “Senate Bill No. 16 therefore as- sumes that a special session will be called and its objective is directed at such special session. T have nc intent at this time to call a specia session or knowledge that a special session will necessarily be needed | The. Fifteenth Territorial Lzislature on convening was confronted with e 4 report of the Treasurer indicating d icit of some $600,000 over antic- ipated revenues for the normal re- quirements of existing departments, It was clearly the duty of the Legis- lature to provide the revenues ne cessary for these needs. The Legis- Jature did no such thing. Instead it authorized appropriations for addi- tisnal projects so that the author- ized expenditures for the coming ennium will exceed anticipated reve- nues by approximately $1,350,000 The cnly revenue measure any mportance which the Legislature aw fit to adopt was an increase of | 100 percent in the strip stamp tu» | of o intoxicating liquors which may bring in increased revenues of $250,- J00. Thus the Territory confronts probable deficit of well over a mil 1all Taxatien Studies ‘Moreover, competent and thor ouzhgeing studies of Aluska tas cture with specitic prapesals f sing revenue have been made. 7 Legislature created the Alaska ning Council and former Gover- Troy authorized a thorough sur- vey of Alaska's tax structure and needs. At almost no cost to the Ter- ritory the services of Mr. James C Rettie, Senior Planning technician of the National Resources Planning Board were secured. He issued a re- port in November, 1938, a thorough impartial study, 64 printed pages in length, was approved by the Alas lanning Council. Meanwhile, {he ed States Secretary cf the Treas® ury ‘had loaned to the Territory at no expense to it the 'es of one of the outstanding nor in the country, Mr. Fred kK Luck, who devoted a cor rable of one year to a study of problems and mmendations for pecitic e th ovement and for the raising of ed revenue. That report, schol- | and exhaustive, 174 mimeo- | graph pages in length, has beer available to the I lature since | the beginning of this session and o] anycne else who may desire it. In| addition to that, at no expe to the | Territory, the Governor, for the scle | purpose of assisting the Legislature meet its problem, secured one of the | nation’s outstanding experts in draft- | ing tax legislation, in the person m‘ Prefessor Alfred Ha ni- | versity of ‘Washingto: Schoo) the last 12 years he has been age in fting tax legislaiion r the Washingten Legislature and sisting it in thus meeting that ite's tax problems. The Territory was fortunate in th ch experl service of their opinion was pre- the Governor's message Xpense er us in and bnl mcet the situation which were e the Legislature for it e lM('vl ition Legislative Reaction What was the reaction Le: ature? The Senate I perfunctory hearings cn the ini I ure. In these no val nis were made of bill, but sev were sermitted to at flaws in wholly minor bill was there- 1l lobbyis k it, to pic visior ad bee d ten to I'he Berate Yeiused en to receive it, although after by the House i1 wae a very ler version ¢f the original- woderate income t u A General Properly ¢ bill sim larly recommended by mpem who ve thorcughly studied Alaska's roblems, and carefully prep: as kept buried in the House Way nd Means Committee. When final- y both these me res had ved uch summary treatment and the eficit problem was still unsolved Gross Sales ¢ bill was evolved a the Senate 1is was promptiy 1id on the table by a vote of six to wo. It has n clear throughout his recent session that a number ¢f nembers sufficient to defeat any dequate revenue raising program vas not interested either in improv- ng Alaska’s tax structure or in aising the revenues which the Leg- ire’'s own appropriation bills in- ficate it considered necessary. Info.mation At Hand There is, therefore, nothing e gained by appeinting a legisls ive tax committee, which judg rom the personnel selected for seiv- ‘e thereon consists chiefly of those who throughout this last session have een determined not to give the lightest consideration or study to -arefully studied, intelligently draft- d, tax measures. The information vhich such a committee allegedly eeks is already in existence. As in- licated above, it is to be found ‘n he three reports of Mr. Rettie, of he Planning Council and Mr. Fred- rick C. Lusk. There is no reaso: vhatever to believe that this tax ommittee consisting of four Sena- ors and four Representatives can 1dd anything appreciable to the in- ormation now at hand. he author of the bill, Senats 3ill No. 16, Senator Sullivan, intro- luced this measure before the ses fon was half over and at no t'm »elfore or since showed any int n tax proposals other than to ob- itruct them, sabotage them, and bur; hem at the earliest moment with- ut consideraion. I have relucancly oncluded that this proposal ema- 1ating from him is not based on sincerety. Appropriation Insufficient “Finally, if we are to assume that | his committee intended to do a erious job, it is clear that the $5,000 cught is wholly inadequate. 1 ommittee would consist of fou jenators and four Representatives, | cattered from Nome to Ketchikan. Che mere travel expenses for r two meetings, plus the provision or their compe! tion would scarce- y leave any appreciable amount for he employing of “technical ‘and ex »ert advisers and clerical help,” provide quarters and facilities for he conduct of its affairs,’ etc. Ha his proposal been worthy of seriou :onsideration $25,000 would have een appropriated and arrangements nade that would have indicated the nmittee’s desire to achieve intelli- ible results. To be sure, these pro- josed studies could have been little ther than duplication of what has Iready been done and done most cmpetently. But with the wholly in- dequate funds voted by Senate Bill ncthing worthwhile could be shed. It would result me y in a waste of $5,000 of the Ter tory’s money. “Those who allezge that the Ter- tory had not had sufficient ad- #nce notice of a proposed tax pro-| ram, (although its own Planning | had been working on the am for three years) and who lleged that time was lacking for the epresentatives of the people and for heir constituents to become famil- ar wih the program, can profitably furing the next two years study both he three above mentioned tax re- and the drafts of the income d property tax bills w! with ummaries thereof were laid before he Fifteenth Territorial Legislature. rh represent all the material the egislature needs. To be sure income iata for the next two years will be 1eeded, and since the Legislature has een fit to abolish the Planning @@ one Council, the problem arises where hese statistics are to -be secured, Without such a fact-finding agency ny Le ture or committee there- { will find itself severely handi- apped Lobbyists Mentioned Of course, it is clear to any fair- ninded Al n despite misrepre- entation by the lobbyists and thei | ‘pokesmen, that these well-drafted | ‘ax measures were not presented (e he legislature ‘to pass. They were 12 islation based on pains- king iny igation and experience 't was the Legislature’s duty to study hese measures, to a , to nodify them, and to#.dopt such part »f them as seemed desirable to meet the financial needs of the Te ritory or fajling to do that, to provide an wdequate substitute of its own crea- tion. A certain number of Senator Veferan PAA Pilofs Set Mileage Mark DC-3 Carries Heavy Load- Soeed 1,356 Miles in 8 Hours, 7 Minutes behind a dog team wearily, bitterly fighting to travel a few miles in a leng day can look with eyes agog at the record number of miles travelled yesterday by planes in the Alaska Division of Pan American Airways. | Veteran Alaska. Pilot Al Monsen left Juneau yesterday morning in the Douglas DC-3 with a load of 17 passengers bound for Fairbanks. When he landed in Fairbanks Pilot Monsen took on three passengers for Juneau, turned around after re- fueling and returned to Juneau.| .| When he arrived, just eight hours and seven minutes lapsed time from the time he left the Juneau airport, he had traveled 1356 miles! The eight hours and seven minutes rec- ord includes time taken to refuel, take on and discharge passengers, | is not mere flying time. Piloted by S. E. Robbins, PAA pilot who was commander of - the first Sikorsky Clipper run to Juneau, {a PAA Lodestar flew better than 200 | miles an hour yesterday as the *zhm took off from the Fairbanks airport hound for Seattle via Juneau. At the Juneau airport the ship landed and refueled, immediately took off again for the States. It had taken threé hours and 18 minutes on its run to Juneau from the Interior. ‘When Pilot Robbins gently landed the plane at Boeing Field in Seattle elled 1,620 miles in lapsed time of eight hours and 15 minutes. much weakened form, the personal and corporate income tax bill ceived virtually no consideration in bill never was even presented to its committees in the House. This program, however is now before the people of Alaska and its represen- tatives—those now in office and these who may be elected to office in September, 1942, Therefore, there will be very opportunity in the in- tervening two years for anyone who really desires to do so to become ac- quainted with Alaska’s financial problems, with its present sources of evenue, with the inequities and in- sufficiencies of the present tax structure, and with the serious pro- | posals that have been made to im- prove the situation and to provide a | moderate, sound, equitable tax sys- | tem which will furnish the revenues | necessary to operate the affairs of our Territory, and to insure iis growth, development and prosperity.” PAA DOUGLAS MAKES FLIGHT TO FAIRBANKS | | [Plane Carrgs—lé Passen- gers fo Inferior-Flies Southbound Today PAA's Douglas DC-3 roared out of Juneau on a round trip to Fair- banks yesterday with 16 passen- gers from Juneau for the Interior and returned later with three pas- sengers for Juneau from Fairbanks. Passengers leaving Juneau on| the ship were Ed Ewen, L, Poulm S. Berior, Fred French, P. Bing-| ham, Mr. and Mrs. H. Paige, R. A. Brown, Mr, and Mrs. Alex Mathe- sen, Mannie Olson, Leo Rogge, mar Nordale, Lonise Harper. The ship returned to Juneau with Mrs. E. L. Shermer, J. G. Rivers and Matt Borgiori. Today the plane left for Seattle from Juneau with Ben Mozee, Mrs. Jeanie Polson, Vera Unudrok, J. S. Robbins, Mrs. Marjorie ‘Maloney, Matt Borgiori, Don Lozzie, Mrs. E. L. Shermer and William Benson. One PAA Electra left Fairbanks yesterday to come to Juneau for six passengers bound for Fair- banks. Passengers leaving on the special flight were J. Boulanger, W. Grip, Nick Barbari, Tony Nordale and Mr. and Mrs. bert. B Mrs. Tanner Winner, | Grand Pinochle Prize In the last of a series of pinochle parties sponsored by the Sons of Norway and held at the I. 0. O. F. | Hall, Mrs. Eli Tanner was named winner of the grand prize. Awards for the card party Sat- urday night went to Mrs. O. Bodding |and Ture Holm, first; Miss E. Doug- |las and O. Swanson, consolation. ————-— HELEN GORDON SAILS Helen Gordon, - employee. of the Unemployment Compensation Com- mission, Alaska sourdoughs who spent days | yesterday afternoon he had trav- | i and Representatives took their re-| sponsibilities and their task seri-; ously. But the net result was that,| though passed by the House in a| re-! the Senate, while the properly tax| THE Halibut Boals Take on lce; Leave Juneau PRESENT CITY ADMINISTRATION | CITES RECORD Great Gams Claimed in Financial, Physical Status of Cify Pointing to the physical and f cal improvements which have been Preparing for the 1941 halibut | season, 22 of Junecaws fleet of 38 halibuters loaded with ice and | supplies at the Juneau Cold Stor- | age over the week-end in antici- | pation of the season's opening to-|Wwrought in Juneau under his ad- morrow ‘morning. !'ministration, Mayor Harry I. Lu- Yesterday and today the fleet,|cas today asked the people to| which landed almost two million pounds of fish at Juneau last year,| was sailing out of Gastineau Chan- nel bound for areas 2 and 3 | nis, Floyd Fagerson,, Hen; Boats loading with supplies in|schmidt and J. A. (Curly) | preparation for sailing and boats| for Councilmen. }nh-endy sailed are.Ayona, Marting Interest on outstanding indebted | Brandall; Addington, Olaf Westby; {ness has been cut as much as | Arden, Olaf Larsen; Marge, Ed|percent on some bond issues mM('l | Skaret; Saga, Arnt Neilsen; Ida|a refinancing plan worked out by |11, John Sonderland; Ford, Ole|the Lucas administration and put Brensdahl; 81-D-337, Carl Westby; | into effect a year ago. The annua 1 |31-A-217, John Pademeister; Eyplu(.lsavllll, on interest alone, under | the Peoples Ticket, | nimself for Mayor consisting of and Elroy Nin-| Messe Ma in 70 \er, Magnus Hansen; Fremont, Olaf | refinancing, will amount to $3.2 winther; Hyperien, Osear Oberg; Since April 1, 1938, the City has | Dixon, Emil Samuelson; Helen, rédeemed $28,400 in bonded indebt- John Willis; Tundra, P, Oswald;|edness, as compared with only $10.- | Curlew, George Kenney; Carol H., 000 retired in the previous 13 years ’Ed Hansen; Emma, Tom Ness; Di- by former administrations, |ana, Wd Johnson; 31-A-303, Ing-| Interest Saved ) |vol? Anderson; Vigilant, George Under the program now in ef-| | Davis and Mabel, Ole Jackson fect, the ‘savings in_interest made First halibuter to leave Juneau by refinancing will redeem the en- for the banks was Magnus Han- tire bond issue in 15 years. The City | sen’s Explorer. now has cash on hand tolaling The remainder of the fleet will $39.000. Definite plans for purchase by {leave Juneau at times set by fish-| ermen's regulnhons { the City of the Juneau Water Com- pany utility are being worked oul [ t present. This purchase is advo- cated by the Peopl T Lucas, in a statement to the peo- ple of Juneau, today pointed wit pride to the Fire Department, Po-| lice Department, City Engineers' of- | fice, Street Department, Health De- | | partment, Library and recreation PAA CARRIES \ RECORDLOAD ONLODESTAR | Bowl. Tax Reduction Planned It i ‘ “Owing to the present manage meul of City operation: Lu said, * Seven Passengers Arriving| from Seattle After set up a fine cash balance in the| treasury. Test Completed provements- in the past two years | should produce some profit. We { _ therefore stand ready to pay a Oarrying. ts largest load of pas | dividend to. the people in the nul sengers since its inaugural flight, a PAA Lodestar is scheduled to land duction of taxes this year. We see| in Juneau this afternoon from Se- | no reason why this cannot be done,| attle with seven passengers aboard. \Wl(“loul impairing any other e: All passengers are booked through | ! pense of operation of the City.” | to Fairbanks. B NG Passengers are H. Hefflinger, T. Rosander, John White, J. A. Korba, | Brick Jacobs, Sam McClellan and A.| H. Stone. The ship is carrying mail | |and express. On previous runs, the ship, ])mr‘ ‘John Hermle Is Batk_ from South | Game We feel that the invest-|change the beaver ment the people made in local im-|other part of Ah.skn of a fleet of three Lodestars used by John Hermle, of the Home Grocery Frank Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Hjal-| "| Steel “1$4.03%. Charles Herbert and Stephen Her- is a passenger Seward- Sihound on the steamer Yukon; PAA on the Alaska run, had been 2 limited to few passengers. Yester- |WAS 2 returning passenger to Juneau day, however, a check run was com- Saturday evening aboard .”w Alaska | pleted in a Lodestar which ca‘ned‘sv.dmslnp Yukon, following several the test flight to Fairbanks, and|Weeks on business and pleasure in| then from the Interior to Seattle in | the states [ eight hours and 18 minutes, Tt js| Hermle spent three weeks in Se-| [thought that today’s record load of attle, and several days in Yakima,| passengers on the plane is a direct | |result of an extremely successful se- |ries of survey flights made by CAA officials in the Pan-American Air- ways' plane. Washington he traveled to Califor- Inia, going to San Francisco where| | he remained one week, and then to | san Jose where he spent a week vis- | iting his parents, Mr. and Mrs, An- - drew Hermle. e VIC ROSS TAKES 2 SITKA POSITION, « 30C2s s, 'll of Skagway arrived in Juneau on More than two and one-half |the southbound steamer Columbia. years' service as Deputy U. 8. Mar- | | Accompanying Rapuzzi on the short shal ends today for Victor C. Ross, ,mp is his wife. They are registered | who has resigned to accept a posi- | lat the Gastineau Hotel. R Trv a classified ad in The Empire | tion as an electrician on the naval | | air base at Sitka. | Ross joined the staff of U. S. - |Marshal William T. Mahoney in | July of 1988. Previously he had been | 2 member of the Legislature. He is leaving on the North Coast | | tomorrow for Sitka, where he will be empwyed by the Siems Drake | Puget Sound Company. Mrs. Ross is already in Sitka, where Ross was assigned as deputy a few weeks ago. S G S S NEW YORK, March 31--Closing quotation today, the last session of month of Alaska.Juneau mine stock | the New York Stock Exchange' this is 4%, Anaconda 24)%, Bethlehem 6% - Commonwealth and Southern 4, Curtiss Wright 8%, Geneéral Motors 42%, International Harvester, 48'2, Kennecott 34, New ¥York Central 127%, Northern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 56%, Pound DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Joms ayerages: Industrials, 122.72; rails, 28.67; utilities, 19.69. | PRICES SATURDAY Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- neau mine stock last Saturday was 4%, American Can 86'4, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 76%, Com- | monwealth and Southern 7/16, Cur- tiss Wright 9, General Motors 42%, International Harvester 47 3/4, Kennecott 33%, New York Central 12 3/4, Northern Pacific 6%, Unit- ed States Steel 57%. Pound $4.03%. gl sy, o i WARD RETURNS Ray Ward, Regional Fiscal Offi- cer for the U. S. Forest Service, re- turned on the steamer Yukon from an official visit to Ketchikan, S e S Subscribe for The Empire. To6 Bic FOR UNCL wuniform. There wasn' walst, 33-kwch leg, 4 hleuvo(hh!“mniflx- od inch chest and 1 -onul size army blouse fits? 1941, Dau|h|er of Otio Suifer Passes Away Mrs. Paul Charles Dies in| Kefchikan-After Three ™ Weeks [lIness KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 381. Otto ‘study the record and then vote for |—Mrs. Paul Charles, 28, daughter of | Seattle canneryman died in the Ketchikan hospital yes- Sutter, terday after a two weeks illness from ! pulmonary embolism. the former Mildred Mrs. Charle Sutter and was graduated from the University of Washington. She was a Seattle resident until seven years lago when she married a Ketchikan man. the Alaska Fishing News. She was business manager of The parents of the deceased are taking her Seattle funeral. Beaver Season body south today for a A 20-day special season “for m taking of beaver in Fur Districl Number One, South t Alaska er per trapper is set me Commi; will be clesed for the taking of the | animals. Open se: . the first ! an beaver | facilities which are being provided |y tng gistrict for years, will-be from ‘ror the City's children at Evergreen {Aps1 1 to April 20. All beaver skins | taken in the district must be submit- » cd to a sealing officer of the Alaska Coemmi The new regulation does season in | sion for sealing with- |in 15 days immediately following the ‘the Council has been able to!cjose of the open séason. not any HOSPITAL | NOTES Admitted ~ for. surgical ment Hospital. care, | Esther Howard is at the Govern- John Bremner of Yakutat under- erniment Hospital this morning, ,went a major operation at the Gov- A baby g was born Sunday morning at the Government Hos- pital to Mr. and Mrs, Benjamine See. Gertrude Law admitted to the pital today for medical care. son of Hoonoh was Government Hos- Sam Eaton of Ketchikan was dis- missed from medical care at the Wash. After completing his trip in|Government Hospital and returned to the First City on the steamer Columbia. Mrs. Leona Hamilton and Edward were dismissed from steamer Columbia. Marjorie Harris Mrs. daughter were dismiss the Government Hospital. 5 e son the | Government Hospital and returned to their home in Hydaburg on the; The Daily Aiaska Emplre has the largest paid circulation of any Al ska newspaper. SAM—A nuntfi me his duction into the army Pvt. Vincent F.Kennedy, 24, (above) had 't one at Camp Edwards, Mass., big en foot physique with its 52- inch neck. See . bow & sens tomorrow. A limit of ten beav- | by the Alaska ion. Admiralty Island and hahyI ed today from | . | DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY MARCH 31, THE WEATHER “(By ‘the U. B. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m., Mar. Rain tonight and Tuesday; little change in temperature; lowest tem- perature tonight about 39 degrees, highest temperature Tuesday 44 de- grees; moderate southerly or southeasterly winds. Forecast for Southeast Alaska: Rain tonight and Tuesday; little change in temperature; moderate mutheast.erjy winds except fresh southerly in sounds and straits. Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alasks: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Fresh southeasterly winds shifting to- westerly Tuesday; rain; Cape Spencer to. Cape Hinchinbrook: Fresh to strong southeasterly winds shifting fo southwesterly late tonight; rain; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurréction Bay: ‘Moderate to fres) southerly to southwesterly winds; rain or snow showers; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: Moderate to fresa sout,hwester)y winds; rain or snow showers, LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.65 42 . 56 S 2 Cloudy 4:30 a.m. today 29.65 38 n 8 6 Cloudy Noon today 29.01 45 54 S 4 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS | TODAY Max. tempt. | Lowest 4:30a.m. Precip. 4:30a.m Station last 24 hours temp. “temp. 24 hours Weather Barrow =14 =19 =18 0 \ Clear Fairbanks 31 2¢ 21 0 Cloudy Nome 29 24 26 .02 Show Dawson 34 10° 12 . Cloud: Anchorage 38 32 32 0 Cloud; Bethel 40 32 3g' 01 Snow st. Paul 39 29 32 0 Clear Dutch Harbor .. 46 35 36 20 Cloudy Wosnesenski 40 | 34 34 .09 Snow Kanatak 41 | 34 3¢ 49 Bnow Cordova 40 33 37 90 Rain Juneau 42 | 35 38 0 Cloudy Sitka 51 36 36 0 Pt. Cldy Ketchikan 49 | 1 38 0 Cloudy Prince 'Rupert .. 49 | a3 38 0 Cloudy Prince George . 72 25 n 03 Cloudy Seattle 68 48 48 0 Clear Portland:, 0 47 47 0 Cloudy San Prancisco . 65 4 50 122 Rain WEATHER SYNOPSIS A deep low situated over th: Bering Sea and western Alaska was bringing a flow of cumpnrativ 2ly . warmn maritime air over most of Alaska. This overruniing 'mois. air is causing cloudy skies over all of Alaska except extreme northorn portions. . Rain or snow was falling ‘this morning aléng the coast of the Guif of Alaska from Sitka to the Aleuutian Islands, and at s me points in the Kuskokwim Val- ley and Seward Peninsula. ' Rain o snow was falling during the past 24 hours generally lover this' 'sam> area. Temperatures remained slightly abové normal over most o' Alaska, with lewest temperature minus 18 degrees reported thi§ moraing at Barrow. Overcast skies with high eeilings and unrestricted visibilities prevailed this morning over the Juneau-Ketchiank airway. J The Monday morning ' weather chart indicated a deep low center, with' lowest ‘pressure: about ' 980 millibars - (28.94. inches) was nearly stationary over the Bering Séa. A storm frontal trough with shift- ing winds extended from:the low ceiter .northeastward:.to near Tan- ana, thence southeastward througa Prince William Sound to lower latitudes, and was expected to move eastward about 500 miles dur- ing the next 24 hours. A second low center of about 996 millibars (29.41 inches) was located about 4@ degrees north, 130 degrees west, and a third low center of 986 millirars ‘(20,12 vinches): loeated at 37 degrees. north, 130 degrees west. A high center of about 1030 milii- bars (3042 inches) was located n-ar 40 degrees north and'158 de- grees west, and a second high cen'er of 1033 millibars (3050 inches) was located at 30 degrees north ani 160 degrees west; a high pressure system was located somewhere t) the north or northeast of Barrow. Juneau, April 1—Sunrise 6:28 am., sunset 7:38 p.m. NAZIS CANCEL /MASS EX0DUS TR & . Bleg g i g otk y Unexpededly Refuses fo Allow Swiss- ; Visif BERLIN,,W!;Gb 31—The usual| monthly ‘three-hour opetiing of the‘ Swiss-Alsatian border to permit an; excharige of visits among ' the fron- tier' populations was ' unexpectedly cancelled today. “Tension in the na- tional situation™ wns given ‘as the| reason. 3 \ “The action followed upon the in-| '| terruption ' of' railway comm\mxcn—‘ | tionts Friday between Geneva and} | unoccupiedt France by’ way of Belle- | garde .in occupied France. ALDER RETURNS U. S. Coast Guard/vessek-Alder, in lighthouse. service, ‘returned to Ju- aeauw todayifrém ‘a short trip to Sentine} ' Island . light wflh a lud of ccnstruction materials. SCOUT 'MAN LEAVES" Amby, Frederick of: the Seattle Council of the Boy Bcouts of Am- crica. is @ .westhound. ‘assenger from Juneau .on, the ' ‘steamer.. Yu: | kon. Frederick was in Juneau :for several days on a survey of Alaska | for a proposed: establishing -of | Scout headquarters in the « Tervi- | R R A BRUSH FIRE A column of smoke from a brush fire on the Basin”Road called Ju- neau firemen out at 7 o'clock Sat- urday ‘evening. The blue was quick~ ‘1yextmgnuhed ———-ee——— Retail florists enjoyed a 'big year in 1939 with total sales amounting to $149,000,000, accord- | ing to the Census. This was 51 per-| | cent greater:than for 1935. : ———.————— More than 12 mflllm proof gal- lons of ‘brandy are used annually in wine manufacture in the U. 8, according to the Census. ; ‘Per capita production of cigar-| ettes in the U.S.yearly hasreached an equivalent of 68 packs of 20 cigarettes each, Census figures! show..This would be equivalent to! 80 packs per capita for all of srok- ing. age. —eo——— More than 420. million handke- chiefs valued by factories at $20,- C»oouoouremadeinthevsm year,according: to.the Census. OF LEGISLATORS \bers of the 15th Territorial Legis- | was accompanied by his wife. Sen-| | of Pairbanks. “ FROM CAPHAL Members Sc_aii_ervon West ! and Soulhbound Boas, Planes fo Inferior By steamer and airplane, mem- lature left Juneau over the weekend for. their homes throughout Alaska. Leaving for the Westward on the steamer Yukon. early yesterday were Senator Edward Coffey and Reps. Almer J. Peterson, Harvey Smith, Jesse D. Lander and W. A. Egan. Accompanying Peterson was his | | daughter, Shirley, who served as a. Clerk on the Senate staff. Also aboard the Yukon were Mrs Leo Rogge, wife of the Fourth Di vision Representative; George Str |83, Sergeant-at-Arms of the House | Karl Drager, member of the 14th Legislature, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry G. Watson of Fairbanks. Going south on the steamer Co-: lumbia last night were Reps. Leon-| ard ‘Smith, Stuart L, Strangroom and James V. Davis. Stangroom ator Don Carlos Brownell of Sew- ard was a. passenger for Seattle and Senator and Mrs, Norman R. Walker for. Ketchikan, Also aboard ‘the .Columbia werc{ Pete : Gilmore, Sergeant-at-Arms in the Senate; Estella“Draper, Secra- tary ‘to the Governor; George: W Folta, Alaska Counsel-at-Large fci the Department of Interior; Earl, W: Knight and wife. ‘!'Leaving ‘Junieau yesterday by PA A planes’ for ‘the Interior were Sena tor and Mrs. Hjalmar Nordale an Reps. Leo W. Rogge, Frank Gor- don and Charles Herbert. Mrs. Her- bert accompanied her husband. “Senator O. D. Cochran had al- ready left early last FriGay morn- ing jon the North Sea'for Seattle. | ‘The 'only ' Legislators ' remainin in the Capital besides the Junea members, are Senator Leroy Sulli van. and Reps. Howard Lyng an Frahk Whaley 'of 'Nome, Rep. H. H McCutchieon of Anchorage and Sen- ator C. H. (Alabam) LaBoyteaus for the are requested ‘o meet the: Cif Hall “Thutsday evenh( Aptfl s, at ro‘bM- e |