The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 28, 1941, Page 7

. ocmeR 1o CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING ne. Daily rate per line for consecutive 1sertions: [L LT P — Additional days ... Be Minimum charge —..50¢ Copy must be in the office by 2 ‘clock in the afternoon to insure asertion on same day. We accept ads over telephone rom persons listed in hmhm‘ lirectory. FOBRENT | e e | "ROOM fur, house and 2-room apt. Red 404 {EATED | i Bishop Apts. ‘ NE-ROOM house. Private bath. $15 month. 322 Decker Way. Call after 6 P. M. | -ROOM steamheated apartment.! Electric range, hot and cold water. Phone 569, -ROOM steam heated apt., com- i furnished, linen, dishes, sare, bedding, piano, Fri- § ire ‘and washing machine to responsible person. $50 monthly rer Apply at 146 S. Franklin over Triangle Beer Parlor from 1 to 7 pm. PLEAN steam heated rooms, mod- erately priced. Upstairs of 20th Century Market, ' ACANCY, Nugget Apts, $30, up.| 34 EAST TTH—furnished 4-room | apt., oil range, $32. Phone Blue 680 C AGE for rent. Juneau. TWo bedrooms. Phone Thane 3-3 rings. Getchell. :-1{()1),\1 I\xx'}xx.\ 1e pt., couple only, Feldon Apts. Phone Black| 415 | 5 B RS Ly o ! BAROUMES Apts.: 4 rooms, fur- nished, hot water day and night, electric range, refrigerator and ‘laundry conveniences, garage, $30. Phone Douglas 132. HOUSE 1o Douglas 763. FURNISHED house, 3 rooms and| bath, oil heat. Blue 285 or see G. Sheeper at Evergreen Ave. -ROOM pa;tly furnished house, 12th St. Call 67 after 5 p.m. A SHALL Apt. 4 rooms, furnish- ed. Phone 751, or call at 114 W. 6th St. PUNEAU }ZENTAL sERVICE, Calli *us for your housing needs. Choice listings. Phone 633. 4-ROOM hous h bath, bargain for quick sale. 922 West 10th. 6 - ROOM completely o (umlshea house, oil heat, reasonable. In- quire 511 325. Kennedy. Phone Green BAROUMES Apts. Cheap. Phone Douglas 132. HOUSE for sale: one 4-room, one 3-room apartment, furnished. 822 Basin Road. $3,250. 5-ACRE FARM: 2-room furnished house, 2 chicken houses, $550 cash. Bus service, Auk Lake Loop Road. Write P.O. Box 2953. COTTAGE, income property, for sale in Juneau. Very reasonable if taken at once. Phone 3—three rings.—GOeorge Getohell. Miscellaneous For Sale 1931 CHEV sedan. New tires. Anti- freeze, $75. Phone Black 640. 16-FT. CABIN cruiser, inboard motor. KINY early aft. or eve. 9x12 RUG. Phone Black 730. TYPEWRITER. Practically new. Standard size silent L. C. Smith, cheap. Inquire Archway Shop. USED auto and truck parts—larg- est stock in Northwest. Anything from a bolt to an engine. Prompt shipping service. — Hodes Auto Wrecking Co., Portland, Ore. '42 PLYMOUTH 2-door deluxe se- dan, radio and heater. Phone Red 450. LADY'S indestructable _wardrobe trunk; bargain for quick sale. Phone Douglas 134. LEAVING town. Must sacrifice 11- tube Stromberg-Carlson console radio. Call 143. FOR SALE—Used sun lamp; good condition. Mrs. Tom Hall, Ju- neau. CABINET radlo, $10. Curtain stretcher, tea cart, electric man- gle. Green 462. REBUILT Singer Sewing Machines. Non-electric low as $15; portable electric sewing machines good as new $22.50; beautiful console elec- tric sewing machine like new $30; good used vacuum cleaners $7.50 each; bargains in rebuilt %4 h.p. motors. See them on the Motor- ship Hiawatha now in boat harbor or call J. H. Anderson, Singer- Maytag distributor. Phone 711. APARTMENTS for rent: 7-, 5, 4 room. Ph. Blue 200. Perelle Apts. FURNISHED room or office in Triangle Bldg. Call 253 or see & Stan Grummett. LEAN steamheated rooms. Sim- mons beds. 326-2nd St. $3.50 and sup per week. O 4-ROOM furnished duplex apartments, $20. Also, 2-room fur- nished apartments for $16. Phone 621. B'ROOM nicely fur. stm. heated apts. and houses. Windsor Apts. home. Phone Blue 614. 1941 FORD Super Deluxe coupe, heater and defroster. Three thou- sand miles. Bargain. Inquire Cowling-Davlin Co. MODEL “A” Ford, $50. Black 725. SINGER SEWING MACHINES, Maytag washing machines, Iron- rite ircners, Terms: $5 down and $5 monthly. Liberal allowances for your old sewing machine or washer. J. H. Anderson, the Singer-May- tag'man at Phone 711, or call at motorship Hiawatha at Boat Harbor. Repairs, parts, service. WATKINS Products. Phone Black 634. Mall orders taken. Box 1651. VACANCY at Fosbee Apts. URNISHED house and furnished apt. Inquire Snap Shoppe. 'A(,M\}CY, Evergreen Apnrtmerrt;. " Blue 629. [FURN. stmhtd. room. Green 675 ACANCY. HILLCREST APTS. PHONE 439 MODERN house, fireplace, chanrel view, hardwood floors, full base- ment, oil heat, unfurnished. Phone 439. — -ROOM FURNISHED apartment; also 5-room strictly modern un- furnished house. Phone Red 620. [ONE OFFICE room for rent, First National Bank Bldg. e —— FOR RENT—Apartments, inquire' at office 20th Century Bldg. ! COZY, warm furn. apts. Lights | water, dishes, cooking utencils and | oath. Reasonable at Beaview, WANTED 3 mmmu wanted for Hawk Infet. ! Howard D. Stabler, Shattuck Bldg., Juneau. ! ANTED—Lathe, electric drill and circle saw. Write L. S, Box 75, Juneau, or call Green 662. RAY DAY RETURNS Ray G. Day, of the United States Customs Service, who has been sta- tioned at Skagway during the recent months, returned to his Juneau! home today on the Columbia. GOOD restaurant equipment . for sale. Oan be seen at Case Lot Grocery. i . Alaska sgent. Phone 43— MISCELLANEOUS READING or distance lenses, $1 each. Frames, 50c up, at 337 Willoughby Ave., untill- Nov. 15. Day Optical Co. y FIVE CENTS each, paid for uséd gunny sacks at Coal ‘Biifikers.* P O S I B 1 7 i TURN your old gold Into. value, cash or trade at Nugget SHdp: SWEDISH MASSAGE: bath, Graduate nurse. PHong Green 662 after 12 noon. 2 GUARANTEED Realistic Perma- nent, $5.50. Paper Curls, $1 up. Lola Beauty Shqp. Phone 201, 815 Decker Way. Fire Call Proves Band Pradicing_ LANCASTER, Pa. Oct. 28—V unteer Fireman Art Gibble heard the wail of a siren after he had | retired, leaped out of bed and raced | for the firehouse. Encountering other vojunteers on the way, he insisted he could smell the smoke and urged the firemen to hurry. But when he reached the fire hall, he learned the siren was part of a musical number being playasd by the town band not far from his home. - DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ~ COMMUN Editor Daily Alaska Empire, October 24, 1941. Your leading editorial of the 22nd, “The Time for Economy,” was chiefly a reprint of an editorial As |Miner on the same subject. I proposed to the last Legislature, | and to some of the projects for which I advocated appropriations, |it occurred to me that you would want to print the enclosed letter | which T have just sent to the Fair- banks Daily News-Miner. | Sincerely yours, Ernest Gruening, | Governor of Alaska. | THE LETTER | Editor Fairbanks Daily News-i Miner: | In a recent editorial which was | reprinted here in the Daily Alaska | Empire, you make a plea for Ter- ritorial economy, and select as your | theme the tax program which I? advocated to the Fifteen Territor-/| ial Legislature. You state: i “Governor Gruening strongly urges an increased tax program for Alaska. He proposes, too, the bonding of the Territory for a million or more.” This last séntence is completely erroneous. I have never advocated bonding the Territory. I believe strongly in paying as you go and have never advocated anything else, although circumstances might well arise when bonding would seem desirable. However, I have never proposed this and have wired the News-Miner today that this misstatement be corrected. Then the News-Miner editorial goes on: “His plans for higher taxation,! if put into effect, would cause the suspension of many smaller gold- mining enterprises, already experi- encing difficulties,” etc. It is in- teresting to note how the pleas against having industries and com- merce pay a fair share of their" tax burden are always accompan-| ied by tears for the “smaller” en-| terprises. Actually, the tax program I proposed was based on capacity to pay. The only specific increase which would have been levied on all enterpris small and large, was the abolition of the $20,000 gold exemption. The gold industry as a whole (which unlike most in- dustries has an assured non-com- petitive market) enjoyed a 69 per-| cent increase since 1933, paid no)| additional Territorial tax whatever for four years and then paid some-' thing less than a 3 percent tax with a $10,000 exemption for two years and a $20,000 exemption for the last three. To state that adding $600 Territorial tax annually per' | enterprise—which is what the abo- [1ition of the exemption would mean —would cause its suspension is fantastic. The only additional tax. proposed was a 4 percent tax on; the NET profits, In other words,! an industry making no profits would have paid no net tax and only those making profits would have been asked to pay in propor- tion to their net earnings. The plea for economy is one with which I fully sympathize. I would like to repeat, however, that econ- omy is not so much what you save! as what you get for what you spend. Apparent economies can be made which in reality are costly. Had an up-to-date and appropri- ate tax structure been adopted in- stead of our obsolete dog-team de- | vices, it might even have been pos- | sible to reduce the existing gross| | from the Fairbanks Daily News- | taxes which are seldom desirable,{ When the News-Miner says and certainly not as desirable at this reprint devoted itself to a any time as net taxes—assuming,|ipe post-war days when such pro-| criticism of the tax program which | of course, that those next net taxes| jects can help to cushion the in-| are not evaded The News-Miner <ditorial also says: “The projects upon which the Governor intends spending these additional funds can wait Let us save our Territorial projects for the postwar days when such projects can help to cuShion the inevitable depression.” The projects referred to included: (1) A modest building program for the University of Alaska to take care of the enrollment of Al- aska boys and girls eager to come there but for whom are now no accommodations. Is the News-Miner opposed to this project? (2) Vocational education. For the last five years the Territory has passed up $30,000 of Federal funds, freely available to states! and territories because of its un- willinghess to match these funds. Training our hoys and girls in trades and crafts gives them a greater earning power and a chance for a livellhood better than that of a hewer of wood and draw- er of water. It has been evident that many of our boys who are now performing unskilled labor o defense projects, could have ha skilled jobs had they been trained. This training Wwill be especially needed during the “inevitable post- war depression” which the News- Miner forecast. Shall our Alaska boys and girls be disadvantaged sters who in the States have been and are now getting that vocation- al instruction? = 'The = News-Miner will doubtless agree that the time to inaugurate such instruction is before the depression and not after it has begun. Is the News-Miner opposed to . this is as against other American young-| this type of in youth? (3) A new Territorial building The government has been expand- ing steadily and there is no space for the many new agencies whose benefits are being felt in Alaska. Does the News-Miner believe that the Territory should not prav\d't‘ housing for these activities? investment our “Let {us save our Territorial projects for | ’cvflablc depression”, I look for- ward eagerly when that time comes to an editorial comment which will say: “We are now in a depression; not the time to spend money; nobody is making any. We must economize!” The time to do anything that| will- build up the Territory, ac-| cording to the News-Miner, is al- ways like Mr. Hoover's prosperity, “just around the corner”. Anytime, in short, but “not now!" I grant that Federal taxes are increasing heavily because of the international menace and that economy is desirable. But there are services indispensable to the life of a community, the abroga- tion of which the News-Miner | would be the first to deprecate. Indeed the News-Miner has far, | more extravagant ideas than were | | ever dreamt of in my modest po- litical philosophy. I recall, for in-| | stance, the News-Miner editorial of | | April 15, 1940, demanding “many | needful improvements” and calling upon candidates for the Legisla- | ture and other public officers to| | support them. Among these were: | Road to Fortymile, l Road to Chena mining district, | Extension of road from Liven-| |good to Hot Springs and Rampart, More roads and air fields| throughout Fairbanks terminal] | area, Build bridge across Tanana Big Delta, Clear snow from | winter, | Year round public water supply system for town, Erect new story on the Federal building, | After a list of 22 demands which aw highways in Was it economy, and is it econo- my, for the Territory to permit five million dollars worth of gold to be taken from Alaska annually without paying a single cent of tax to the Territory? This is what is now happening under the $20,000 exemption. Is it economy for the Territory not to collect a single cent of tax from the profits that are being made this year in the vast con- struction ' business, in connection with national defense? A hundred million doliafs' are being spent in Alaska by the Federal government for bases and air ports. A sub- stantial portion is being built by private contractors, the majority of whom are firms from ‘“outside”. The four percent net corporate tax and the modest personal income tax on money earned in. the Ter- ritory presented ‘to the last Legis- lature would have solved the Ter- ritory’s financial problem for this biennium and for decades to come. This unprecedented source of reve- nue would have been available to, the Territory this year and next l‘enfli;llifl and thereafter will be gone. Is it economy for the Territory to make no collection whatever for its public purposeson the increased income which has come to the | businesses and people of certain | communities now experiencing a defense boom? The merchants, banks and other |enterprises in defense towns arei for a year or two reaping a hnr-i vest, but their greatly incredsed in- come is in wise reflected in Territorial receipts, owing to the existing rigid fixed license and mercantile taxes which they pay. Yet many of these towns have problems calling for increased ex- penditures as a result of their |growth. An intelligent and flexi-| |ble tax system would make it possible for increased population and increased business automati- jcally to take care of increased neede Christmas Cards you, with your name printed or * engraved right practical way to send ygre Laad I¢’s Not So Long Until Christmas Now, in October is the time fo statt thinking about Christmas. You'll he smart to order your Christmas cards ndw 5o that you may have just what you want in plenty of time. Ask fo i, se,g-,oui catalog of lovely ca;dg‘; : Greeling; designed for on them. A lings. Empire Printing Co. | 0000000000080899090299000000020008006000000000000000220809 440000 includes the foregoing, the News- Miner added: “The foregoing embrace but portion of the needs of Fairbanks, the district and the Territory which should now have the united sup- port of the people of this region. The time for action is here. The session is none too long and the elections are near. This is the hour of lopportunity. Let’s get busy.” SUNRISE TIMES FOR DUCK HUNTERS Wed,, Oct. 290 .. 8:05 a. Oct. 30 Sat., Sun., Mon, Nov. 3 Tues., Nov. 4 Wed., Nov. § Thurs., Nov. 6 Fri, Nov. T Sat., Nov. 8 Sun, Nov. § Mon., Noy. 10 Tues., Nov. 11 Wed., Nov. 12 Thurs., Nov. 13 Fri, Nov. 14 sat., Nov. 15 sun., Nov. 16 Mon., Nov. 17 Tues., Nov. 18 Wed.,, Nov. 19 Thurs,, Nov. 20 Fri, Nov. 21 Sat., Nov. 22 Sun,, Nov. 23 Mon., Nov. 24 Tues., Nov. 26 Wed.,, Nov. 26 Thurs., Nov, 27 | Pri, Nov. 28 .o Sat., Nev, 29 .. g —————— SPAN COLLAPSES | AS RIO GRANDE | FLOODS STRIKE RIO RICQ, Mexico, Oct. : "—The | International Bridge across the Rio Grande collapsed today under pres- sure of flood waters which have been | tearing at it for a week. Only a few concrete slabs remain- ed after the $60,000 structure col- lapsed at the center. | TELEPHONE 4 ' HOME GROCERY : PAGE SEVEN 1891—Half a Century of Banking—1941 The B.M.Behrends Bank Oldest Bank in Alaska COMMERCIAL SAVINGS 2. R e - s | Sanitary Meat Co. | FOR QUALITY MEATS ! * AND POULTRY | FREE DELIVERY | Call Phones: 13 and 49 L3 Rl s wemerey THRIFT C0-0P Member National Retaller- Owned Grocers NEXT TO CITY HALL PHONE 767 Harri Machine Shop 0. HARRI, Prop. Alaska Laundry P. 0. Box 1143 Phone 319 -—— FORD AGENCY GREASES GAS ~— O oot of Main Junean Mofors Alagka Music Supply Arthur M. Uggen, Manager Utah Nut and Lump | COAL Alaska Dock & Storage Co. Phone 146 Heme uor Store—Tel. 690 Meat—Phone 38 “SMILING BERVICE" Bert's Cash Grocery PHONE 104 or 108 Pree Delivery Junssu The Juneau Laun FRANKLIN STREET betwsen Pront and Second Streets PHONE 380 JUNEAU-YOUNG Hardware Company PAINTS—OIL—GLASS Bhelf and Heavy Hardware Guns and Ammunition GENERAL MOTORS, DELCO and MAYTAG PRODUCTS W. P. JOHNSON “The Frigidaire Man” FOR WALL PAPER Ideal Paint Shop Phone 540 Pred W. Wendt- st e ot NORTHERN NOW OPEN! Nance 5-10-25¢ Store 224 Front St. [ Under New Management ||| CORBETT SHIPP, Mar. JUNEAU e e = and Night P AURSERY GASTINEAU * Mrs. E.-L. Hopper, Mgr. HOTEL 5 Third St. Phone 119 ||| Every comfort made for our guests Air Service Information PHONE 10 or 20 COWLING-DAVLIN COMPANY 20TH CENTURY MEAT MARKET QUALITY MEATS PHONE 202 HUTCHING'S ECONOMY MARKET Be Wise—Economize THREE PHONES 5563—82—95 WHEN IN NEED OF Diesel Oil—Stove Oil—Your e