The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 6, 1941, Page 2

']Hh DAILY ALASKA EMPlRE, MONDAY, OCT. 6, = appreciated by the CDA, and any-| il . 4 CDA Food Sale one wishing to make contributions THE “Ew TAXES "o 1 may call Mrs. Hector MacLean s Planned f == There Is a Slight Fee of S anne Or CDA MEMBERS TO SEW TOMORROW, PARISH HALL Next Saturday:’ semvers of e camoic pauen- 40 000 000 " You i ters of Ameriea will meet tomorrow 'o n morning at 10 o'clock for their A food sale pl weekly sewing session for Red Cross | bers of the Catholic {|work. The sewing meet will be| America will be held next in the Parish Hall | e ew axpayers ! u day, October 11 gl <. P ) ! cjock in the morhln ' MOTHER OF MRS. BAKER ! be held in the new Sears-Roebuck Arives nere ox visit| [ NEW MEMBERS OF THE TAXPAYERS CLUB buildin Mrs, Bertha Newsham has ar- In charge of the sale are Mis. yived here from hmere, Wash., | Jack Harrington and J. K.ito visit her da s. Ralph | 1 McAlister Baker, wife of the Baker of | Donations for the the Bethel Mission Prevent Fire Loss thra Comstruction! Build With Fireproof Materials WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF AIDS TO FIRE PROTECTION Cedar Grain Siding for Roofing Johns-Manville Products Rockwool Insulating Materials Sheet Rock Plaster Board All Kinds of Fine Lumber COLUMBIA LUMBER CO. of Alaska PHONE 587 S —————— . 5t s By LUCRECE HUDGINS AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON—In 1942 Uncle |and child in the country. On toa] of that, state, county and munici- pal tax collectors will take an ad- ditional $69.62 per person. That's the way things would he [IF the estimated 22 billion dollar % bill for 1942 (counting the new federal tax of three and a half billion and the expected state and local levies) were divided equally among the population. The Treasury expects the na- | tional income next year to be 90 | billion dollars. But before we can ! | begin jingling this around in our | pockets we're -going to have to turn over about one quarter of it |to the various branches of gov- ernment. No Longer | | | i | | So Exclusive The Income Taxpapers’ Club, | otherwise known as the Society |of Perpetual Gripe, will welcome 2,256,000 additional members into |the organization next March 15. |Congress has considerately re- Imit these additional citizens to share the fun. A slight initiation fee of $40,- 000,000 will be charged these nex members, which is approximately ers. Bringing understand them, together something like this: If you are a single man or a career girl earning $20 a week you now pay Uncle Sam a mere seven and a half cents a week. In 1942 you'll have to cut 41 cents out of the budget pie every week and serve it to the government. Taxes as a Budget Item . If you are a married man with no dependents, earning $40 a week, | You never before had to worry | about income taxes. But your duy THANK GOODNESS WE’RE INSURED . .. It’s terrible to sce house and home go up in smoke, to see cherished belongings destroyed, a familiar laid waste, but how much worse it can be if there is no insurance to replace these valued pos- The money from your insurance policies will enable you to duplicate everything you thought lost. Fire annually destroys millions of dollars’ worth of property . Fire Prevention Week is a good time to investigate the merits of good insurance. seene sessions. Saving 20% on Fire Insurance JUNEAU INSURANCE AGENCY STANLEY V. GRUMMETT, Manager PHONE 253 the federal tax collector 81 cents,” or enough money to keep you m cigarettes. stairs where we little fellows can! the picture fits| | |duced exemptions in order to per-; the price of 100 new super bumu-; the figures down-| If you are married, have twoeSt: Phone Blue 730 (Each figure represen}:s one million people) dependents. and net $60 a week, \ou too, are a newcomer to the ncome Taxpayers’ Iee will be $1.12 a week. | sam is going to take the equivalent i~ You may think it would be nice of $97.03 from every man, \knmmum have a million dollar annual income, but at $19,230 a week you would have to kick back $14,098 to the federal collectors, which is $283 more a week than this year. And you might shed a tear for the multimillionaire. If he has a net income of $96153 a week he will hand over $75,444 of it to the U. S. Government, One Feeble Ray This being the situation, the peo- | ple’s representatives have a pretty good idea of just how black things are going to look to Mr. Average American on the evening of next March 14 when he gets to fooling around with a scratch pad. So the gentlemen on Capitol Hill got a lot of government account- ants to do the paper work, the de- ducting and crediting and exempt- ing, so that all the taxpayer who earns less than $3,001 will have to do next March 15 is look up one figure on a simplified chart and send in a check for same. This process is known as Sugav | Coating the Tax Pill, meaning tha,I you don’t know what’s hit you un- til after you've swallowed the medicine. (Temorrow: Paying Pennies for Defense.) Junior CDA Meets Tuesday Afternoon| Troup 1 of the Junior Catholic Daughters of America will hold a business meeting tomorrow after- noon in the Parish Hall following school hours. Mrs. V. L. Hoke and Mrs. George Rivard are councilors| for the group. Troup 2 of the organization is to | has come, oldtimer. In 1942, every 'meet Thursday afternoon at the week youwll have to set aside ror‘same place. o Alice ~Irene Carte—Teacher. of Piano—Classic or Swing. 526 12th S2i kitady. Club and your 19 DONNALANE SEEKS HELP OFF ALASKA Coast Guarder Is Rushing . Through Storm fo Aid ! Distressed Freighter | SEATTLE, Oct. |urday to the assistance of wooden_ freighter | reported in need of aid 120 miles tfrom St. Paul Island. | The Hermes radioed she I making slow progress toward the Donnalane because of a, storm and a imight need the assistance of | Navy plane to find ‘the motorship. The Donnalane reported the en- gines were stopped, temporarily | The Donnalane was a former | herring saltery which had been idle in,. Cake Union but was recondi- tioned and left Seattle September 16 loaded with coal for Nome The Donnalane carries a crew of 34 men. . The Hermes is éxpected to reach the Dommlane todny PAA CANCELS HOPS FOR DAY | Two Pan American Lodestars at | Seattle and another at Prince George, B. C,, cancelled northbound | flights today after weather condi- tions prevented takeoffs, PAA of- fices here were informed this af- ternoon. Trips will be attempted tomorrow. A snowstorm raging around Whitehorse, Y. T, caused cancel-| lation of a scheduled Electra flight from Fairbanks to Juneau, while another Electra here awaited fur- ther weather data before attempt- ling to hop w Whitehorse. |ACA PILOTS MAKE ‘ TRIPS TO ISLANDS | - On a flight to Sitka today Pilot | Alex Holden, Alaska Coastal | lines, took Steven Hoag, John Gaf- Uney Fred Lenthle, and N. | Eachran to Sitka and M. Hu:lev to Tenakee, returning with E. E. and R. McDonald. Going to Tenakee again, | lciz, Mary Rinehart Charles Charles Obert. Pilot Shell Simmons flew Paul Coke to Chichagof, Bob Lyman and Andrew Kaarko to Hirst and Mr. and Mrs. Willis Booth to Sit- ka, returning with Ossian Palen from . Sitka. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINHIIWIII|IUIIII' |IIIIlIIlI|"llIIIflIlllllllllil"llllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIlIIL- I FIRE PRECAUTION TR RTREELO S O wr pr during fresh start. fire precaution. £ E il ed house,.a homeless family, respecter of individuals. autions and avoid carelessness that leadn1 National Fire Prevention Week. , But: don’t let it go at that. and if it strikes at you, while we can’t and provide the money for a make insurance your number one spite of all effort, fire strkes, minimize the heartache, we can prevent loss Insurance does it Insurance! N\ l coufii happen to you a disorganized life Flght fire! Take common Ask Ior Complele lnlormafiu Today MeLEAN A John 6. Young, Manager \ Ill||IIIIIIINIIIIllIIImllllIIllll|mmlll||||||Hll!flllmlflm|mmmflflmf’m|m‘!ll!mlflll“mfiml‘ll - to disaster. ENCY A fire is no sense fire prevention Do it now, In 6 — The Coast Guard headquarters said the cur- ter Hermes was steaming last Sat- the Donnalane, which was Air- | McCausland, Tom Dyer, H. B. Fox,)‘ and Mrs. from Chichagof and Sig Aspen,| Myrtle Jones and Mrs. A. Curtiss| fimm!mmmnnmmm|||munnnmummmlmmnnmmmmlmmmmlmumnumlmnmlmmmmnnmmu|||||m|mm_||mnmmum 41. Territory fo Bring School Suif Now Pending af An- chorage to Force $5 Tax Payments 91 Bases The Territorial Attorney .Gen~ eral's office plans to bring several |civil suits against contracting firms ‘Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity =~ Weather doing defense work in Alaska. fo| 4:30 Dn. yesterday 20.58 48 88 SE 9 Rain force the payment of $5 schpol| 4:30 am. today .. 2056 44 100 s 2 Rain s|taxes by defense workmen, it was| Noon today ... 29.66 X 91 3 Overcast declared today by Attorney-Gen- unio l.nons eral Henry Roden, on his return + ' TODAY from the Westward. Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30a.n. Precip. 4:30am. “If they don’t have to pay the Station last 24 hours tenp. tempt. 24 hours Weather taxes, no one has to,” Roden stat-| Barrow . 2 25 33 0 Overcast ed, referring to the defense base; Fairbanks 46 36 36 16 Overcast workers. Nome 46 4 2 04 Cloudy Roden said asuit of this na-| Dawson 41 36 40 .03 Overcast ture is pending in U. §. Commis-| Anchorage 47 | 34 31 24 Clear | sioner’s court im Anchorage now| Bethel . 51 41 4 0 Overcast |against_ the fiem of Bechtol, Mc-| St. Paul 50 48 43 02 Cloudy Con and Parsons, contractors for| Atka & ... B1 47 48 0 Cloudy Ithe Fort Richardson base. Roden Dutch Harbor .. 54 38 40 0 Pt. Cldy | |will return'to Anchorage to repre- ‘Wosnesenski ... 55 46 . 48 0 Pt. Cldy sent the. Territory in the action| Kodiak .. 56 46 48 0 Pt. Cldy when the suit is appealed and| Sordova .41 38 39 08 tried in the Federal District Court,| Juneau 18 | “ “ 91 |he declared. Sitka 52 41 £ 96 Anchorage Case Ketchikan .. 50 a3 43 32 Cloudy Reviewing the Anchorage case, Prince Rupert .. 53 46 41 a1 Cloudy Roden stated that a territorial Prince George .. 52 41 43 08 Overcast |tax collector called on the con-| Seattle 63 50 51 03 Overcast ‘(ractmg firm and asked for a list| Portland 63 48 49 0 Overcast, of employees. The firm refused to| San Francisco .. 68 3 41 0 Clear (furnish this list and a complaint was filed against the contracting company and their Anchorage representative arrested. The Attorney General’s office ot \Washington D. C., instructed the S. Attorney at Anchorage to | represent the government and ask; | postponement of the case, then a | second. wire from the U. S. Attor ney General stated that the War | Department would instruct all Al- |aska contractors to furnish a list of their employees, desist from de- claring that the tax is illegal and |allow the territorial tax collectox }o make his cllections from the | workmen. It was asked in retun !that the Territory dismiss the | suit The Territory declined ta do this, |Roden said, because under |law, employers are required to fur- [nish a list of employees and also collect the Lax ‘AMERI(AN lEGION AND AUXILIARY TO INSTALL OFFICERS ' Joint Ceremomes fo Be ' Held in Dugout Tomor- row Night-Banquet Holden | took A. F. Leshinen, John Gan- | | Bradford Post of thev American Legion here will not hold their regular meeting tonight. Instead, the Legionnaires will meet with members of the Ladies Auxiliary tomorrow night at the Legion Dugout for joint installa- tion ceremonies, to be preceded oy a banquet being prepared by tne women. 7 Acting as ‘installation officers, who will seat new officers elected recedtly by th& two groups will be made up of past commanders of the Juneau Legion post. Holding down the commander’s chair dui- ing the ceremony will be Homer G. Nordling. Other installing offi- cers will be Waino Hendrickson, Martin, as second vice commander; Tom Petrich, as adjutant; Bert A. Lybeck, as chaplain; Willlam O. Johnson, a$ sergeant-at-arms; and Mervin M. Sides, as past comman- der. New officers of the Juneau post to be installed tomorrow nightare Claude C. Carnegie, commander; Fred Cameron, first vice comman- der; Alfred Zenger,” second vice commander; George Gullufsen, ad- jutant; Leo J. Jewett, chaplain; Jim Soufolis, sergeant - at - arms; John H. Newman, historian; and Frank A, Metcalf, past comman- der. On the Legion executive com- mittee for the coming year are Erpest M. Polley and Russell R. Hermann. Auxiliary officers who will be installed are Marion Hendrickson, president; Ann Day, 1st vice presi- dent; Mabel Lybeck, 2nd vice presi- dent; Ethel 'Johnson, secretary- treasurer; “Ted” Johnstone, his- torian; Dorothy Manthey, chap- lain, Agnes Keifer, sergeant-at- arms; Edith Sheelor apd Vollie Stewart, executive committee. Past presidents of the organiza- tion will be in charge .of the ir- stallation and the. refreshments. There will be no reguhr busine-s meeting. A visitor in Junean today Wwas Vincent Soboloff, old timer and trader at Angoon.. ¥ i, BUY DEFENSE STAMPS Tax Adions FORECASTS: Juneau and vicinity: Clear day; colder tonight with lowest iable winds. Wind and weather Dixon Entrance to northwesterly winds, My brook: moderate to fg‘m ne Cape Hinchinbrook easterly winds, sections. THE WEATHER (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U S. DEPAE'I'H!N‘I‘ OF COMMERCE, WEATHER BUREAU whed to partly cloudy tonight and Tues- temperature about 36 degrees and frost in low places, highest Tuesday 51 degrees; light to gentle var- Southeast . Alaska: . Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; colder tonight; gentle to moderate westerly to nofthwesterly winds moderate to fresh northerly in Lynn Canali. . “e Guif of but tonight and Tues.: moderaite fo fresh westerly to Cape Spencer to Cape Hinchin- F1y, to morthwesterly winds, fai kesnmmon Bay: moderate to fresh north- fair; Resufrection Bay to Kodiak: moderate hor- therly to northwésterly winds, partly cloudy. LOCAL DATA WEATHER SYNOPSIS Moist maritime air had penetrated all of: Alaska during the past two days but the air was dryer and cooler this morning over most Partly cloudy to cloudy skies prevailed over Alaska this morning exeept clear to partly cloudy skies along the south coastal area west of Yakutat and local siowers were falling over South- east Alaska. Rain had fallen during the past 24 hours from Southeast Alaska. Rain had fallen during the past 24 hours from Southeast Alaska to Fairbanks aid Cook Inlet and from Attu Is- land to the Bering Sea and ove: the Seward Peninsula. The greatest amount of rainfall was 91 hundredths of an'inch which was reported at Juneau. The highest temperature yesterday after- noon was 55 degrees at Sand Point, south of, the Alaska Peninsula and the coldest this morning 25 degrees at Barrow Broken clouds to . overcast with local showers, moderately low ceilings and fair to good visibilities prevailed over the Juneou - Ketchikan airway this morning. The Monday morning, weather chart indicated a deep low pres- sure center was.located to the east of Alaska with a trough ex- Alaska | Members of the Alford John| ‘Washington and Oregon. oden fo Rule n Hardeastle- Cauble Dispute Ilornesmeneral fo Issue Legal Opinion on Com- pensafion Board A legal opinion as to just who is eligible to fill the third position fon the Territorial Unemployment written either this afternoon or tomorrow .morning by Territorial Attorney-General Henry Roden, it (was learned today. Roden, who arrived here on the McKinley yesterday from the West- ward, conferred with Dr. Noble Dick, of Fairbanks, and Robert Bragaw, of Anchorage this morning regarding the man legally entitled to fill the third. post on the board, Meanwhile, R. E. ~Hardcastle, Ketchikan man whose term expired jon the board last February, left as first vice commander; Ralph B. \this morning on the McKinley bound for ‘he First City. A letter addressed to Dr. Dick and Bragaw stated that he was leaving because of the press of business and would be ready to take his place on the board whenever he is certified as the man entitled to the position. Rev. John L. Cauble, of Juneau, who was appointed. to the board by Gov. Ernest Gruenipg atfer-ad- Jjournment of the. iegislature spting, and without the req legislative approval, is due to luvfl tending to Sountheast Alaska ani southward along the coast A high pressure center of 30.65 inches was located at 48 degrees north and 152 degrees west and a crest extended into the interior of Alaska. Juneau, October 7—Sunrise 7:14 a.m. sunset 6:17 p.n. | jat the 13th Naval District ship- Compensation Commission will be! t [, to high FamiliesGo _ South With * Coast Guard With many wives and children of the ship’s personnel aboard, the Coast Guard cutter Haida left its Juneau base at 10 o'clock night enroute to \ Bremerton, where the vessel will be drydocked yard for repairs and annual over- haul, Officers said they had received no notification that the Navy may take over the vessel, placing it under Navy operational direction for the duration of the national emergency. The Haida is the only Coast Guard - cutter usually as- signed to Alaskan -waters which has not yet been taken over by the vay Remaining under Coast Guaril direction in Territorial waters, however, are several smaller patrol boats, ; Flakne, Mr.. and .Mrs. Robert Duckworth, .A. Blackerby, C. Lom- bardo,. W. iConnell, D. N. Gunter, T.. Mage, P. Koshman, H. Rosen- holm, ©. M. Cal 1, V. Hansen, J. MeGinnis, P.#Poluha, H. M. Campbell, A. | oslie, A. Hagen. ——————— MARRIAGE BUSINESS BRISK Married, at. Douglas Saturday ening.. by 'U. 8, Commissioner x Cray were Sid Benson and Mary Grant, Jocal native couple. Due to get their license today were here next week to take: a- pastorate in Longview, Washington, church Beginning the second week of their annual meeting, Dr. Dick and Bragaw conunued today. to conduct business * of quorum of the -board. Louise Now , Southbound Thirty-one :passengers from Ju- neau sailed for the south on the| steamer Princess Louise of the cmodkn Pacific Railroad Com- pany this morning. They were: Mr. and Mrs. Otto Pfeifer, U. Kronquist, S. G. George, Mrs. L.' the Unemployment|yn, g pj Compensation . Commission 85 8| giock Refress Gordley, E, R. Saloum, Mrs. L. J.| Palmer, Mrs, A. Couey, Mrs. Alice Nordale, Miss Mary wnam James Barrager, Jr., P. W. ‘A. Campbell, Mr, and Mrs, Joseph Daisy Fox and Steve Guanson. PIONEERS ATTENTION! Regular monthly meeting Igloo this evening at 8 eshments to follow regular meeting. CHARLES CARTER, Acting Secretary. —————————— NOTICE! The Juneau Woman’s Club will meet in the Alaska Electric Lignt and Power Co. penthouse Tuesday at 2 pm. adv. B. SMITH, adv, Secretary. i = last - & ¥ -a K o »