The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 20, 1945, Page 2

. r——— . per gallon, and.on liguo i e o Y N A R W TSI ST, : ' 1 i % ’. 1 ' | { 3 ‘ ‘ ‘ 1 1 %ot Alaska (%o “third ““ment and passed the Senate unani- « mously +the bill were: ta $2 per LIQUOR TAX DOUBLED BY AMENDMENT Excise Mea;; Held Up in Senate for Surety Provmon ig inning in tlh Territorial esterday afternoon wi a 1 bulging hopper and the other on e of the Whole hearing varch 22, made another long day of Trap Referendum mea- t yesterday, staying in session until Solons warmed up a ! iop. Forthcoming sessions bit g-one -memorial | yrcmise burhing of the midnight oil and . votir ible the, tax on o get through work by the end of hard liquor consumed ' in the Terri- he 60 days. tory Way was cleared yesterday after- The in the liquor tax 100n to hear Senate Bill No. 21 came the form of an stablishing an Alaska Housing e Senator N R Authority. The bill had previously Walker's Senate Bill No. 24, which sassed the Se vas up for second reading, having yeaVING FOUR VAPOR TRAILS as it roars over the heart of Berlin, a Flying Fortress of the U. S. 8th Air Force sers heard 1 u come; out cf the Taxation Commit- is shown in the <pumcumr daylight bombing raid on Berlin, February 3. Smoke can be seen rising vtrom ! ellor for the Federal Public Housing tee with the amendment tagging burning buildings in the Tempelhof area, and German government buildings, including the Air Ministry, Administration, of Seattle, explain aleng, Cemmittee Chair 1 Frank were hit and left ablaze by more than 2,500 tons of bombs. Air Forces photo. (lnternanonul Soundphozu) | tetails of the Alaska setup. It Gordon did not cencur in the ~——— |would, Furman explained, set up amendment -and took a strong y > i better housing facilities in low rent (n‘:\i; against it on the, floor, be. Guidtupled” ‘Ats iguor: taxes, “f” sracket foFs WHr WOrkers diiring the e kwu\ carried by a 9:to 7 without encouraging bootleggers. var pericd, relieving the housing vote Agdy he'added, IbqconsRRCE - | snortage, and in the post war period The memorial\ passed was Sen- decteased, the ‘maral good ‘7‘_‘"“;“ | or general use. In short, it simply .tor Frank Whaley's No. 7, peti- might be greater than the revenues | \xtends public housing: facilities to tioning Congress, the President of 108t 3 2 8 : Alaska and the Authority which the (he United States, Secretary of the nator Andrew Nerland declared | 3ill provides for would put control Interior Ickes and Alaska Delegate 1t on_iRe couicienie i) A |-inger Alaskans. ;| Following Fur- L: Bartlett to increase the Apdusbens SEAE g0 Taiy’s talk the bill wast read through; sriations for the Bureau of In- co-author of the bill 1or 1 ind' /put into Second: reading until' A d the Biological the same purpose two )‘.(‘,.t ;\gu: H | “‘H(m}' afternoon at 2 o'clock Survey suffici 16, SUpPDit. an SEIKCHDRER A g, Atier WAV TG T8 LS | Insurance Bills Pass Hoout dtiva i ves prey- than to tax luxuries AT B Senator . Allen Shattuck. pointed to the severé Federal penalties on hoetlegging, and stated . his, belief that' the margin ‘of profitids now plenty lirge to tempt lawy ylnhxon —that the proposed lncrom in tax would, not likely -ha .a mnqx gre: inducement to them. img on reindeer. and game animals Revealed After Big Three Session (Continued from Page One) There the measure and reading Was' 1D cODtroversy over it was advanced without amend- Controversy YANK FORTRESS IN DAYLIGHT RAID ON BERLIN Imponant Meehng Now' ‘Cannmg Company W|I| attend the in Mexico City. He see the President Egypt, where he | Legalizel Business Senator Howard Lyng declared that $1,000,000 in taxes should be ufficient from one industry. “The | liquor industry is a legalized busi- ness, acceptable to the majority of our people,” he said. The doubling | and quadrupling of Federal taxes on liquors is only one of the mear taken to scrape the bottom of the| tax bucket for war purposes. Senator Gordon entéred a plea for less tax on liquor on the ground that cent medical opinion de- T&idres whiskey s 1 “!?"9‘%- d;’.lm'\n\ heart ailmentss -G " he declared ‘wish 0§ Mxes & ®h what 5o many piume y be- ‘cause ‘they "dre ' ‘sore’ tfiat they cannot enjoy it, and want to stop of others. President will Conference to AJ< ux.(lxm Sens ‘Walker’s “ Liquor 'Excise Bill was a different story. It veloped a. full share of The bill, as originally off , con- tained the leves on all forms of liguers strict s is.” It provided enly for a change in the manner of collecting excises on beverage: eliminating the amp tax.” ator Walker declared that 526’)000 would be saved in collection costs necessary by the tax stamp Only the levy on hard and dis- tilled, Jiquors was they, target | of the' amendment proposed by . the gommittee. The excises provided in 5 cents per gallon wines, 15 cents= of more cent alcoholic content, The amendment ° ase the latter levy eign Commissar Molotov. as !‘altogether satisfactory.” | Winant Meets President President ference dria, and while the lasted less than four hours, described as permitting b before.” It added that to do with the war on malt beverages; “it than 18 per $1 per gallol proposed to in gallon Meciaring ‘that the $1 tax had brought the Territory $900,000 dur- ing the last blennium, and that with, the savings to be gained from clhp.ymum the stamp tax that amount would be increased to mote than 51,100,000 for the next Sendtor Walker said “that “the’ econ- 2 Should rest on a w}mke) tax'; it does not look good for our record that our sec- ond largest source of revenue w 2 neubral power. The statement. said (,mmmu the President E Edward D. Coifey sed the debate on the amendment by stating’ig to be a firm principle with him’ that no tax should be increased 1 per cent. “When the original purpose of any tax is lost sight of,” he'avowed, it is too easy for that tax to “get out of hand." Still ;mmhcr‘awm' seems destined to adhere:td ‘the | liquor ~tax bill before t £ ¥6ady for rinal action. At the: #equest -of Senator Joe Green, the measure was con- tinued in second reading to afford cl out threw everything it had. at {Japs as soon as Germany was feated ,and, meanWhile, do all could to strengthep,its forces ready in that conflict.” speculate on stated, however, that when mil ShONA Be whiskey.” he said. him an opportunity to frame a the world Bfnator Tolberf'Scuu who' Nse provision that would require a .. - 5 s i curety bond from distributors to a bill now being: held in commit- tee which would double the whiskey COVer 8ll imports into the Terri- E I“ yd G g PEBich would doutle the Whiskey: ¢o . g placing the responsibility ar o eor e tax, as provided by the amendment, Inter-American | was | in re- jperted on the meetings with For- The Moscow conferences were described | Ambassador Winant also met the| at the Middle East con-| with Churchill in Alexan- conference it was| “new and‘ discussions on at least|gnq Chlgmk bject that couldn’t be taken | had in the Pacific| | against Japan where Bovmt Ru&im told | *irt. blunt; words that | government was determined to the de- | 1 it al-| & Newsmen were cautioned not to Army from German prison camps thé whereabouts of in Poland, have joined three al- the President’ at this time. It was ready in Moscow, the President reachés the White House on their way to join them. he will have traveled about 14,000 Red Army advances more than half-way around many United States officers and & Hany G Blarr, Seattle, is regis- -American Airways plane: Dri Ber- a guest Carlos Carlson, I for coiiection of the exci on the stated “he knew of no better way .. 4 " N S I “I P the world to raise woney thay distributors. It s expected that| oW e"ous y by taxing whiskey. §nnnlm~ Green’s zn»]vcnd.'nf'm mu‘ Senator H. H, MeCutcheon came 1eCcive favorable action today. LONDON, Feb. 20—Lloyd George, out against the increase on the © * ¢ ® ¢ © 9 ¢ ® Cigpitain’s elder statesman who was ground that to make the tax’ex- WEATHER BEFORT ® yecently elevated to_an_Earidom, horbitant would only ‘“encourage : . “."‘"{:'".B'”W‘“‘ : is seriously ill. . the bootlegger.” \ i, Swho is 82, was It Consumption Net Cut (€7 Témperntufe tor: £3-hot ?‘mk whd attack of fiffifenezg Senator Whaley stated his regret ® period enling at 7:39 o'clock month, but Was be-. that the increase had not been ® this mbralby “to'be recovering. His condi- voted when proposed two years ago; ® PO 48K g : tion is ngw causing anxiety among “The Territory lost nearly a mil- ® In Juneau—Maximum, 38; @ his men’a it is reported. - lion dollars in revenue” by not © minimum, 35. Precipitation, M e ——— having the $2 tax on whiskey, he ® .82 of an ‘inch. . "FROM SEATTLE declared. Estimating that the in-|® = <At Airport—Maximum, 36; crease would amount to only|® minimum, 33. Precipitation, @ teredat the Gastineau. about cne.and one-half cents per © .27 of ay inch. L) —_— £ drink, he said he did not believe|® ® © o o 8 o o o & o FROM SEATTLE consumption of liquor in the Terri-| ®¢ TOMORROW’S FORECAST e Alfred A. Cyre, Seattle, is tory would be cut by it. L e o o e at the Baranof Hotel. Senator O. D. Cochran pmmedi. Rain tonight and Wednes- o | - ->-oo out ‘that not only had the Terri-{® day. Showers Wednesday e FROM SAN FRANCISCO tory made previpus increases in the|® night. Highest temperature e Marila Barrett, San Francisco, liquor levy, but that the Federal ® ,Wednesday, 43°; lowest, 39°. e California, is staying at the Bar- Government - had “doubled and ¢ o o o o @ e o e o e @nof Hotel Ft GHTER PLANE AMBULANCE—A soldier lies in a belly-fank ambulance slung bee neath 3 7th AAF P-38 fighter plane in Pacific area. A patient would lie on his back. | e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA EMERGENCY CLAUSES HIT FUNNY SPOT House HoldsT)ng Session Monday-Housing Au- { thority Explained House members with one ey on H. No, 44, by Shattuck, pro- viding that no annual o nt’s or sclicitor's licens:2 sued unlass the applicant has re- ided jn tn2 Territory for at least one year met speedy approval and pd\\d 2143, as did H. B. No. 45, by | BELL!NGHAM Wash,, Feb. 20— | Taylor, ancther insurance measure Operation and joint operation of 12" ich would, in-effect, erable |salmon canneries in Alaska this SOns to get insurance where, in some season by PAF was announced by |instances, they are not now able to Executive Vice-President Jack|securs it. Green today. H. B. No. 48, by Johnson, relat- A pack of between six and seven ingt to cos and disbursements in hundred thousand cases is expected. |civil actions, was referred back to |About 2,500 will be employed. Can- 'tke Judiciary Committee for cor- |neries to be operated under the 1ecticns and H. B. No, 49, next on | Government’s concentration plan the program, wa held in second are Kasaan, Petersburg, Alitak, reading, pending introduction of an- Shumagin, King Cove and Nusha- other bill to replace it. No. 49, if gak. p ed, would repeal Chapter 26 o} Canneries to be operated jointly'the Session Laws of 1939 which al- are « Pillar Bay, Excursion Inlet, | thé Attorney General travel- Snug Harbor, Port Moller, Naknek |ing exponisés outside the 'Territory. Auditor Frank Boyle, who addressed |the House on the measure, said the 11939 law, {h his-opinion, should be |repealed and anctber law passed which would include olher Ter: {ial coffices. Per Diem Travel Raised Representative Hanford authored H. B. No. 50 which passed with only one dissanting vote. It raises per diem travel for Territorial officials from $6.00 to $7.00 per day. A new bureau, that of Tax Com- micsicner, would be set up by House Bill No. 29, by Peterson. It pro- |vides for appointment of a tax com- by 2 majority vote of the Swift Admini ve Board at a salary freed ©f $5,000° per year and allows him, « with the approval of the board, to men from prison camps despite appeint such deputies, assistants, German attempts to take prisoners 3gSnis and employees as needed. from threatened areas. Duties of the new department would ""The cight American officers now be to have beneral supervision over in Moscow enjoying the city’s hos- the collection of all taxes, license pitality went to the ballet as guests [€€s, excises, imposts, dues and all Ambassador Harriman, and other Territorial revenue. It was nched at Spasso House. Numbcla of British and Canadian frem Deering, and seconded by Rep. soldiers are also understood to have Cain that the bill be held in second reached the Moscow area. ,rcading on crder to hear from Terri- gt - torial Treasurer Oscar Olsen at 10 a. ik g ey m. Wednesday. PAN AMERICANBRINGS INMHGEIS TOpAY Taylor threatened to lower the boom Emergency Clauses Emergency clauses got a new. lease cn life in the House yesterday after- -4 :' Wy The tolowlng pnssengers kh Ju- on all emergency clauses after the ! neau for Fairbapks yesterday, not House had voted to eliminate the Ketchikan as*billed, aboard & Pan Operate ' Cannieries Under Govi Plan, ws .S OFFI(ERS LIBERATED, NOW VISIT MOSCO Feb. 2 liberated by —Five more U. the Red MOSCOW, S. cfficers, Moscow declared many others are micsion have neta Block, Elwin Scott, Olifer T. g . Mansfield, Willlam E. Lewis, Gomer . S V. Scorebrand, -Mrs. May W,llner. H av e | Leaving Juneau today for Fair- banks were the following passen- gers: Gordon Springbett, Andrew Simons, Dr. George W. Dale, Lowell Puckett, Ralph W. Mize and John Manders. Juneau to Whitehorse—Sgt, Vigars. Juneau to Seattle—Conrad Espe, Mrs. Lillian Angerman, Joseph Peloza. Faybanks Lo Juneau — Antonio Pelet and Ivr Mary Polet of Nome. | i REEEE T R FRANCEGOINGTO | ' HAVE OFFICIALS Leo AT "FRISCO MEET | PARIS, Feh. 20.—France definite- ly intends to participate in the San Francisco Conference on World Security and there has never been any question of her refusing a place at the United Nations table, French officials said. However, the French are with~ holding acceptance of the invita- tion pending complete study of all pessible angles of a full report on decisions made at the Big Three conference, particularly concerning occupation of Germany, zones of occupation and practical operation of the European Charter. BUY WAR BONDS ‘an appropriation of $8,000 to get moved by Mrs. Cross, representative | noon. when Representative Warren | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1945 P e e SHRINE DANCES (INVITATIONAL) SATURDAY-February 24th and APRIL Tth BOB TEW'S ORCHESTRA MASONS AND EASTERN STAR MEMBERS SAVE THESE DATES——— YOU ARE INVITED DANCING 10 P. M. TO 1 A. M. | emergency clause from Taylor's Ko- | diak hospital bill, No. 41, cailing for that institution out of the red be- fore turning it over to the Grey uns who are new in charge. Tay- lors’ threat to defeat all emergency claus came when the deficiency schocl bill; No. 2 king $4,000 to school transportation to the cf the bisnnium was up for passage. Dr. James C. Ryan, Commissioner of Education, had said the money had to be appropriated immediately 50 he could provide ' transportation. Taylor immediately was on his feet to say that his Kodiak hospital emergency was just as pressing in crder to turn it over to the Grey Nuns debt free. - Furthermore, he moved an amendment to strike the cmergeney clause from the school appropriation. After had won a second from Representative Vuko- vich, Representative Huntley of the Third Division was on his feel to ask reconsideration of his 'vot> on the Kodiak' hespitai emeérgency clause. Reconsideration for Tuesday af-| ternoon (today)' was granted with| announced intent of giving Repre- sentative Taylor ack his emar- geney clause for the Kodiak hospital. 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