The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 7, 1945, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT effected by recent revision of Alas- ka’s basic price regulation. There will be a general discussion of how the optional percentage markup formula will work out in the GAS TAX ACT CANDLE SESSION TAKES EDGE OFF 1S APPROVED BY SENATORS Three - Cents - Per-GaIIonj Levy Cutin Half for | Seaplanes ... | possible to help merchants to a bet- jalong this morning to accept one Unanimous consent was granted to The Territorial Senate yesterday | ter ynderstanding and compliance new bill, reconsider a yesterday's'suspend the rules for introduction afternoon put its O. K. en the, Gasoline Tax, after first amending | Senate Bill No. 35 to cut the lcvyi on aircraft used exclusively as sea- | planes, from 3 to 1 cents per| gallon. The three-cent rate would | be paid by operators of all (nheri planes and of motor vehicles using | the highways The seaplane tax cut was pushed | through after Sheldon Simmons of the Alaska Coastal Airlines had | gppeared to point out possible ef: fects of the three-cent levy on the | Seaplane traffic in Southeast| Alaska. Not all Senators from the other Divisions were convinced, but“ most of them were willing to ease| off when it was shown that sea- | planes could expect to reap but| little benefit from the tax fund. i Basing his statements on the‘ fuel consumption of his company’s | planes during the past year, Pilot| Simmons declared the three-cent | levy would mean a payment of| $3,000 per year in taxes by his cr-f ganization alone. There are three | other companies in Southeast Al-' aska that would be handing out similar sums, he added. We are willing to pay on that proportion of our business that makes use of wheel planes, he said, but we do not think it fair to put such al! heavy load on our float-equipped | plane traffic; especially since we have been informed by the High- pricing of those items not otherwise | covered by specific dollars and cents ceilings. Tt form should prove of geners] interést and information to | all Juneau merchants | H sy "evenmes meeune i WOTK Goes Easier Today- be a follow-up of one held January H H I en e unenucowumer:, il Bill Causes Trade Committee, composed of rep- “"Ie war ers, met with OPA price officials for | a discussion of the proposed revision| Work during last night's candle now in effect. Meetings of this session having taken the bulge out HOUSE CALENDAR resentative tradesmen and consum- {type further indicate the Territorial of the House of Representatives’ by the Senate Committee on Edu- OPA’s intention to do everything calendar, legislators went smoothly with wartime regulation of Alaska’s;vote, move three bills into engross- trade economy. |ment for firial vote, and get into a & hsr o) g | 'ow over another. { The new bill, by Representative (los | N G IN | Cain, would pay St. Ann’s Hospital I |$1,105 for care of certain inigents. The row arose over Representa- tive Bess Cross' Housé Bill.77 to Mopping - up Operations| Confinue as Bombers Sink Ships, Wide Area require instrument ratings of com- mercial pilots in Alaska. Representative Gill brought upon himself the Cross wrath when he proposed indefinite postponement, declaring, “This bill will interfere with one of the biggest industries of the North and ground some of | the best pilots in the world. Youw'd | ground pilots that instrument men By C. YATES McDANIEL (AP War Correspondent) MANILA, March 7 — American forces in all sectors are ‘“regroup- ing for final phases of the Luzon campaign,” Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur said today, announcing also that only limited activity against an estimated four Japanese divi- sions still on the island is going on. | could not replace.” Representative Cross declared: In the air war, however, Ameri- can bombers are busy. They sank; |“There are going to be a lot of new fliers coming up here after the a 6,000 ton freighter transport off, Formosa and left a destroyer es- ] { | war to take advantage of a chance to make a lot of money and a lot of them are not going to have the proper training.” Mrs. Cross also declared there is “a lot of equipment being flown in Alaska that isn't safe to fly in.”| Before recessing until afternoon, | indefinite postponement was voted | |down, and legislators looked for- ward to amendments to the bill. « Advanced on the calendar to en~ grossment after amendment were three measures, House Bill No. 21, providing for confidential nature of certain vital statistics; House THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA 64thSenate Bill Offered ThisMorning Senate Bill No. 64, the first new measure to come into the Upper Chamber of the Territorial Legis- lature since the fortieth day dead- line, was introduced this morning cation, Public Health and Morals. of the measure. Senate No. 64 is entitled: “An Act to provide for the organiza- tion of school districts comprising territory within and ' without in- ?corporated towns; to provide for| the election of school boards in such districts and to prescribe their powers and duties.” 7 Being a committee measure, the bill was placed on the calendar without reference. CHINESE 1STARMY ADVANCES Armored Troops Dfiven to Within Two Miles of Burma Railhead KANDY, CEYLON, March 7—Chi- nese First Army Armored ‘Troops have driven to within two miiles of the Burma Road railhead of Lashio, cort in flames. Southeast of Shanghai, sank a small freighter and damaged |another and also sent four small| |vessels to the bottom east of Hong | Kong. \ Airdromes on Mindanao, southern- most of the Philippines, were heay- | ily bombed by naval patrol tor-: way Engineer that, under the most recent ruling, no part of the fund' could be spend for construction or repair of seaplane ramps. Added Expense “We have hoped to lower our fares, not raise them,” Simmons remarked. But, he said, this tax would be an added expense from bombers | a Southeast Asia Headquarters com- munique said today. The Chinese, dispatch reported the capture of Old| Lashio, two miles north of the main! Bill No. 76, a broadening of the | Workmen’s Compensation Act, and House Bill No. 74, extending the area for seal bounty payments. Yesterday the House had included farmers and dairymen under pro- visions of the Workmen’s Compen- sation Act under House Bill No. severed the main Japanese land, air town, plus Lashio airfields. The communique said the British 14th Army troops, whose armored| units in an 85 miles drive, have 76, and today Representative Peter- and water links between Rangoon | sure group—your benevolent associa- tion or all the churches and schools of Ketchikan combined?” “Silent Majority” To which Senator Walker replied that he was only trying to impress the House, which had asked him to speak, that “you generally hear from | the objectors,” but that you very seldom hear from the “great silent majority.” Walker went further to declare “Reverend Olson is doing a grand job in Ketchikan and I have only the preatest respect for him.” Also talking against the bill was Alice Smith, of the Juneau Woman'’s Club and the W. C. T. U. Letters of protest against the bill were also read from Commissioner of Educa- tion James Ryan and Juneau Schools Superintendent A. B. Phillips. The motion for indefinite post- ponement was put by Representative Bess Cross and carried 14 to 8, two members absent. C(LUB BAR BILL GETS HOUSE AXE Visiting Preacher Takes Floor to Battle Ket- chikan Deal i | | | The Rev. R. E. Olson, pastor of |the Lutheran Church in Ketchikan, !had a field day on the floor of the |House of Representatives yesterday afternoon that culminated in clinch- |ing arguments which sent disputed Senate Bill 20 to the limbo by in- ! definite postponement. Other business 'yesterday after- \noon saw the passage of Senate Bill | The measure, authoried by Sena-|No, 29 which conveys certain Terri-| tor Gunderson, would haye enabled torial owned land in Nome to the the Ketchikan Elks club to have a Alaska Communications Commis-| |club bar within the 200 feet re-|sion. stricted zone around schools and| ponrecentative Taylor's pinball| churches. Churches and schools jicensing system measure, House throughout the Territory had Vigor- pouse Bill No. 57, went into en- ously opposed the measure and m‘d.grossment for third reading. the gallery well packed. H It had been coniended by those in liquor controls. Senator Gunderson, called over from the upper house to explain his bill declared the bill would not act as a relinquishment of controls, and would but permit the Elks Clib of Ketehikan to carry their license acros¥ 'the street to a new $140,000 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1945 | No "Brownoufs, \ STOCK QUOTATIONS ' NEW YORK, March 7. — Closin, quotation cf Alaska Juneau min Juneau, Seward P Or Kefchikan stock today is 73 American Cay e 941, Anaconda 34, Beech Aircraf WASHINGTON, March 7 — The | 131 Bethlehem Steel 71%, Curtiss War Production Board announces | wright 6%, International Harveste it has exempted Juneau, Ketchikan |g13; Kennecott 39%, North Amer and Seward from the “brownout” jcan Aviation 107%, New York Cen | order which sharply curtailed out- | tral 247%, Northern Pacific 2%, U | door electric lighting. | 5. Steel 66%. The WPB said observance in| Dow, Jones averages today ar the areas mentioned would not as follows: industrials, 161.52; rail: save coal or other scarce fuels. I 52 09; utilities, 28.40. 2 —ee——— | —e———— MRS. FELTE HERE FROM FAIRBANKS Mrs. Jack Felte, of Seattle, is at| James M. Dodson, Fairbanks, i the Baranof Hotel. a guest at the Baranof. Pierre’s BREAD STICKS Delicious with Spaghetti Dinners, Soups, Salads at the CASE PHONE 704 Juneau Deliveries— 19A.M.and 2 P. M. « Douglas Delivery—10 A. M. /L_/ club house First City Elks have con- templated. : Gunderson also said that under 1937 enactments, the Ketchikan li-| cense, within the restricted zone, was legalized in its present location and SPread to Regirle Coell prison, as that the new location would be in SPoradic bomb explosions through- actuality “fourteen feet farther Out Rome punctuated Italy's poli- away” from the nearest church. |Ucal crisis, following yesterday's Church Protest \clash before the Royal Palace be- Senator Walker had been drawn tWeen carabinieri and the crowd, in which one Communist demon- strator was killed and several per- sons injured. Convicts and persons awaiting trial for Fascist crimes burst out. of their antiquated cells at the prison before dawn. Police and fire- men quelled the riot with fire hose. Crowds are reported to have demonstrated before the carabinieri fighting the bill that passage would mean a “beginning of a breakéown”| | [ | ROME, March, 7—Disorders have into the fray after Representative Peterson declared he had a wire from the Ketchikan church in question, protesting the bill. Walker derided legislation being swung by “pressure groups”, and the visiting Ketchikan pastor took the flodr for the second time on the bill. “My good friend Senator Walker,” the Rev, Olson declaimed, “it is the AWVS CABARET DANCE MARCH 10TH pedo boats and a coastal vessel| ‘loaded with “escaping” Japs was| w, sent down off the west coast of is' Luzon. The measure, now on its way to What remains of the’formidablg|third reading and vote, raises army the Japanese had on Luzon |the definition of “Children,” from island when the American forces 16 to 18 years, and also makes 10 struck through Lingayen Gulf on |Per cent increase in payments for barracks in outlying sections of Rome, while bombs have burst in various sections of the city. which we could not possibly receive proportionate benefits. In answer to Senator Leo Rogge; Simmans stated that hi company would not object to the' tax if it were also applied to boats. “We're in direct competition with boats,” he said. son led a futile, though victorious, h privilege and duty of constituents to fight to get the action rescinded. wire their representatives,” and pos- ed the question, “Who is the pres- and Mandalay, had captured posi-| tions southwest of Myingyan. Some 30,000 Jap troops are cut off by this action, except for escape routes through tHe mount’ua of Thailand. A | Headquarters said about 2000 en-' the bm'Janusry 9, has been split into eigh separate segments and these are ‘being forced into narrowing sectors by the persistent Yank Doughboys, | Following amendment, was put upon final passage under suspension of rules. Discussion pre- ceding ithe vote brought comments from most of the Senators. Fourth Division Senators Frank Gordon, Andrew Nerland and Rogge pointed to the burden that would be put on freight trucking in the| Interior and expressed objection, ! not only to the tax cut for sea- planes, but ako to the exempting | of water vessels from taxation| ARMORED DR'VE under the measure. ! . Senator H. H. McCutcheon called| NEw YORK, March 7—A British the bill “Just another nuisance propdcast said a British armored tax’ ’and remarked that the same fjying column has driven to within Senators who had ‘“keel-hauled” four miles of Mandalay in Burma. the Net Income Tax proposal Were The broadcast was recorded here now advocating the gas tax. by the NBC. IR Even-Up Stunt nal rsed 5 - aon, so’;m‘l":.‘i 1o opine that the, MARIE BRENNAN ESTATE aeteated on sometning e waned| PARTICULARS AT GRAYS and is now trying to lnpress on us that we did something wrong.”| Anyone interested in the estate Senator Allen Shattuck pointed of the late Maric Brennan may out &hlt most of the “fine high- get full particulars from United ways" in the States had been built giates Commissioner Felix Gray, with funds from similar motor fuel accordin, to Mrs. Doris Sampl taxes. One of the bill's authors,| i bicke ot g i Senator Frank Whaley,. concluded with estimates as to the likely‘EvENING SERVI(E' revenue returns to the Territory to be derived from the act. l EPIS(OPM. (HUMH The tax is not experimental, he| maintained. For years similar tax| BE HH.D 'o"IGHI laws have been raising “hundreds | of millions of dollars” for highway| The Rev. W. R . W. Robert Webb an- construction throughout most of the ‘nounces that the regular mid-week States of the Union. Based on a Lenten Service will be conducted tax rate of three cents per gallon, this evening at the Chi bs ening a e urch of the 3;1 ;;to‘;nmti the levy would return Holy Trinity, Fourth and Gold. o per biennium from auto-| The sermon will discuss - the mobiles and trucks and an addi- fourth clause of the Apostle’s tional $36,000 from aircraft, over Creed. Everyone is cordially invited the two-year period. to i i attend. The serv The entire amount of taxes col- ! o'clock. h:FEvice jbeRinesn g lected under the bill would go into a8 separate fund for construction and' maintenance of roads, high- Gen. MacArthur says. BRITISH NEAR t | Empire want ads get quick results. |emy troops were killed in the hght-’ ing at Meiktila, which fell to British| |Armoved units and Airborne troops on February 27. § COLLINS PUTS " NEW LIFE IN LAB MEASURE Dr. Bunnell Slated fo Ap- pear on Agriculfural Bill in Senafe A “comeback chance” was assur- ed for Senator N. R. Walker's bill to establish an Agricultural Experi- mental Laboratory, Senate Bill No. 34, yesterday, by Senator Grenold ! Collins. The measure had been voted down by a 9 to 7 margin in the morning session, but the young man from Anchorage gave notice during the afternoon meeting of reconsideration of his vote. death, disease or injury. | '‘GIRL SCOUT DRIVE . FIRSTWEEK IN MAY The Juneau-Douglas Girl Scout |and Boy Scout groups announce |thetr finance campaign which will| ;occur during the first week of May. |Money raised during the drive will ;ba used solely for local purposes with {a majority of the funds being used |for the summer camp. 1 Further announcements will be/ {made next month relative to plans |for the campaign, néed for funds;! |financial statements showing what funds have been used for in the past land other pertinent information. ' SENATORS KILL INSURANCE BILL Alaska’s Senate yesterday after- noon laid low a proposed elimina- tion of medical examinations of ap- B.P. 0. ELKS OLDTIMERS' NIGHT VA TONIGHT at 8 0’°Clock e A Session to Honor the Long Time Members A ENTERTAINMENT and EATS 4 plicants for life insurance in com- |panies organized under the Terri-; tory's laws. A vote of 5 “yeas”, 10 “nays” put into the limbo of bills “failed to carry” Rep. Almer Peterson’s House {Bill No. 10. The measure was un- der consideration when the Senators went to lunch yesterday. Properly | fortified and back at work again, the !solons lost no time in disposing of; the bill. —eeeo MOOSE FOOD SALE The Women of the Moose are having a food sale at the Sanitary- |Piggly Wiggly Market on Saturday, March 10, at 11 o'clock. The sale will-be sponsored by the social ser- vice committee, with Mrs. R. Maur- 'sted as chairman. : Senator Collins’' move was dicta- ted by a desire to allow Dr. Charles | E. Burinell, President of the Univer- city 'of Alaska, to appear before the Senate in regard to the measuse, — i P 'R ONION L. SETS 21bs. T5c ALASKA ways and aircraft facilities, he em- phasized. Vote on the measure showed 11 Senators favoring the bill and five! opposed. Voting “no” were: Sen-| ators John Butrovich, Jr, Ner-| land, Gordon ,McCutcheon and Ed- | ward D, Coffey. MERCHANTS WILL MEET WITH OPA THURSDAY NIGHT All Juneau retall and wholesale merchants, dealing in merchandise from the States, are invited to meet with officials of the Office of Price Administration at the American Le. gion Dugout on Thursday evening a 8 o'clock for an explanation of the percentage markup formula now allowed by RMPR 194 The purpose of the meeting cording to spokesmen for the Te: torial Price Division, is to give Ju- meau business men a first hand un- derstanding of numerous { | | PHONE 492 changes R e R et e ettt ot tnsattas s Thelma Pederson Terry Malone Expert Operators in STYLING and Specializing in FRENCH BRAIDING and PERMANENT WAVING Phone Your Appointments EARLY! 4 LUCILLE'S BEAUTY SALON SEED CO.. EXOTIC ’ Krafft Building 24 Visiting Members Invited ~SEEDS ==-=a] ONION Get Yours Now! . zs ul,i'l;ssc Featuring FERRY LILLY'S SEED SEED co. CcO. Also NASTURTIUM SEED from BURPEE MINIMUM DELIVERY—$2.50 DOUGLAS DELIVERY 10 A.M. TWO DELIVERIES DAILY Berts 10:15A. 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