The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 10, 1945, Page 8

STIFF RULES SET UP FOR LIQUOR SALE House De;rofes Evening Session fo Liquor Con- trol Board Bill Control, spelled with capitals, was written for the liquor business| in Alaska last evening when the| Territorial House of Representatives passed, 17 to 7, Rep, Almer J. Pet- erson’s Substitute for House Bill 46, setting up a Liquor Control Board| and Administrator. Uniform closing hours through- out the Territory are provided m‘ the measure for all tyes of estab- lishments sélling liquors—package stores, beer parlors, cocktail bars and | clubs all included. After considerable | juggling of amendments, the House fixed the hours of sale at: From 8| o'clock a. m. to 12 midnight on all days except Sundays, when they may' be s0ld only from 4 o'clock p. m. un-| il midnight. An amendment to pro- | hibit Sunday sales was lost. | The Liquor Control Board, as set up, would consist of the Governor,| Auditor, Attorney General, Treas- | urer and Highway Engineer of the Territory. Liquor Administrator | A Liquor Administrator would bei appainted by the Board at a salary of $5,000 per year. He would have the responsibility of enforcing (,hc, Territory's liquor laws and collecting | liense fees. The fees are set at the same figures as under the pres- ent law. Excise taxes would also| rémain the same, with the exception | the tax on hard liquors, The whiskey levy would be $1.60 per gal- | lon — a compromise figure reach- edl by the Representatives in their second evening meeting of the cur-| renit session. The bill bad originally | provided a whiskey tax increase from $1.00 to $2.00 per gallon. | + The- Liquor - Control Board-would have among its powers that of is- suing and revoking - licenses—with appeal to the Courts provided. City ! Counclls would have first say in ap- proving licenses to be granted with- | in municipalities. s Licenses J Mer(hams'T;gue in Reg-| | Mauro Drug beating Percy's Cafe, | 1276. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE— also was defeated by a 3 to 21 vote.| Having finally—after more than three hours of maneuvering—pound- | ed the bill into a form that was rea- sonably satisfactory to all, the rules| | and the measure | ahead to final vote, ied without more dis- Also passed at the House seesion last evening was House Bill No, 49, by Rep. Fred Hanford. The bill, which removes restrictions on Terri- torial Officials’ traveling outside Alaska at Territorial expense, was approved after elimination of the emergency clause. | The House tinally broke it up for | the night at 11:30 o'clock, adjourn- ing till 10 o’'clock this morning. FOUR CONTESTS HELD ON ALLEYS 1:30 LAST NIGHT { | | { { ular Friday Night Kegling Games The Merchants' League bowled four contests on the Elks’ alleys last night with Ordway’s winning over Juneau Drug, 1462 to 1430; Butler, 1358 to 1323; Race’s Drug licking Henning’s, 1363 to 1213; 20th Cen- tury Meat defeating Sabin’s, 1285 to | The following are scores: Ordway's 17 216 . 134 130 17 202 160 122 17— 51 173— 501 159— 453 115— 367 Spat C. Carnegie F. Holmquist N. Furness They obtained control of all dom- measure pegs the salaries of Division fanned north to Monte Torraccia, meeting little resistance. | treme east sector of the Italian front, bumped into strong positions and retired. SENATE VO FIFTH ARMY S A IS ONE MILE - Regulation Childrens Boarding Homes The rich shall get richer—so de Senate thi: ROME, March”10. — American Fifth Army troops, closing in on | the Nazi stronghold of Vergato, | southwest of Bologna, pushed to within one mile from that town creed the Territorial today. er, quickly exploiting yesterday's giving a 20 per cent pay boost t capture of Carviano, the Americans Territorial Department heads. pushed north a mile to Sabbioni. The Senate Finance Committe inating high ground. The east bank Territorial Auditor, Treasurer, At of the Reno is a mile north of Ver- torney General, Highway Engineer, torial [4 four months. ato, which has been holding out for Commissioner of Mines, Commis. |sioner of Labor, Commissioner o The Americans’ Tenth Mountain ector all at $6,250 per annum. creased pay rates for Eighth Army patrols, in the ex- Ployees above the 1941 schedules, priations Bill, it was explained ~ FOR OFFICIALS FROM TOWN tven spiit Defeats Bill t | morning when it voted approval of Along the banks of the Reno Riv- Substitute for Senate Bill No. 41,| the | fey yesterday finally gained permis- Education and Public Welfare Dir-| In-iwnh an appropriation of $15,000 to minor em-,rerray expenses of Congressmen it are to be set in the General Appro- (where they will be elastic and can|in more grandiloquent terms. ]DivLsion affected, was also passed {by a 10 to 6 count. | Senator Frank Gordon gained per- | mission to withdraw his Senate Bill No. 60, which would have amended |the Prospectors’ Aid Act. A more comprehensive measure is promised to take care of the subject.’ The Senate worked slightly over- |time this morning. so recessed for lunch until 1:45 o'clock this after- |noon. . i - 'INVITATIO RESOLUTION WITHDRAWN Senate President Edward D, Cof- s o | | e -|sion from his colleagues in the Terri- Legislature’s top section to _‘withdraw his badly mutiliated Sen- f ate Joint Resolution No. 6. The measure, which started out , invited to visit the Territory, was put aside to make way for a House ’Memoriel expressing the invitation TAXBILLIS TRAPPED; MANEUVER Bill Is Passed But Vote Is Reconsidered and Measure Held The one per cent Property Tax Bill passed the House this morning in a storm of debate, but was stalled on its way to the Senate by a last-minute maneuver that may mean the death of the measure. The vote was 14 to 10 for pas- sage, but before the tally was announced from the clerk’s desk, Representative Shattuck, most vig- orous of the anti-tax Representa- tives, jumped up, changed his vote to the affirmative and announced his intention to reconsider. SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1945 | suspension of rules. The House, however, |lhis morning. Passed was House Bill | a city magistrate and pay him not less than $1,800 a year. Also passed was House Bill 74, by Krause, amending seal bounty laws to make bounties payable everywhere in Alaska east of the ‘lwth Meridian, which just cuts Ip:au.st the tip of Seward Peninsula, iand only eliminates a few of the |Aleutian Islands. House Bill 76, a Labor Committee imeasure to extend the Workmen's Compensation Act, was also passed, taking in “all labor” including Ter- ritorial and municipal workers as well. House Bill 21, by McCutcheon by request, was also passed, providing for the confidential nature of cer- tain vital statistics, and House Bill 71, by Johnson, making it a crime for certain types of criminals to |carry concealed weapons. ——————— FROM SITKA Charles A. Whittemore, Sitka, is | { | did pass Jwichout trouble, four other bm.s1 i 70, by | Peterson, McCutcheon and Taylor, which would require cities with a population of 2,500 or over to elect ———.——— ® o & & 0 * o o WEATHER REPORT (U.S. Weather Bureau) Temperatures for 24-hour period ending at 7:30 o'clock this morning e o o In Juneau—Maximum, 39; minimum, 30. Precipitation, 43 of an inch. At Airport—Maximum, 39; minimum, 31. Precipitation, 12 of an inch. ® & 0 0 0 0o o & o TOMORROW’'S FORECAST L) be raised or lowered in accord with| By Senate action earlier in the % living costs, Finance Committee week, the appropriation was knocked |Chairman Allen Shattuck expressed out of the Coffey resolution, but ® his belief that the pay of depm-t-;me Senators at that time refused to ® | heads should be left at the increased let it be withdrawn in favor of a| | figure—even if living costs go down. memorial. | Only Senators N, R. Walker and! ®H. H. McCutcheon opposed passage| (URwa ORDER ®lof the bill, the Ketchikan Senator| Few Alaskan towns will be af- ® declaiming the proposal as “class/ ® | legislation.” Fourteen to two was| ® |the final vote in favor of passage of | fected by the War Mobilization or- der from the office of James Byrnes !closing entertainment houses at | H. Simmons Spot . L. Holmquist I. Carnegie 497 501 Juneau Drug 158 160 187 186 132 148 Total . 464—1462 174— 492 130— 503 155— 435 M. Lavenik E. Simmons G. Overby 477 494 Butler, Mauro 190 163 146 123 133 133 Total 459—1430 189— 542 148— 417 133—°399 470—1358 B. Lavenik M. Stevenson 469 419 Percy’s Cafe 52 52 144 169 118 137 119 101 Total 52— 156 160— 473 102— 357 117— 337 M. Furness Many amendments and cross- amendments were offered before it | was decided to let stand the provis- jon of the hill for locating licenses butside of cities. The bill provides 4hat consent must be obtained from yesidents within two miles of any| focation applied for. A strong fight | was put up on the House floor to riet approval of such licenses to residents of the voting precincts within which they would be located. | Representatives Warren Taylor and| Maurice Johnson were the chief ad- vocates of removing city controls over their i mmediate surrounding areas, but were out-voted on all of | their attempts. | Representatives thought for a, while that they had uncovered a P'joker” in the measure which would have evaded the action they took earlier in the week when they in- definitely postponed the Ketchikan Elks Club Liquor Bill, Senate No. 20, On closer examination, however, the clause was interpreted to maintain licenses for those clubs now hold- Ing licenses within 200 feet of! churehes or schools, and, after clari- 1ying amendments, was allowed to stand. Occasioning the most violent re- marks during consideration of the; bill was an amendment proposed by | Rep. Taylor and strongly supported | by Rep. Bess Cross to strike the male limitation on persons dispensing li- quors. Pollard Speaks Out | The proposal brought Rep. C. A.! Pollard to his feet for his most em- phatic declaration of the entire Leg- | islative session, that the amendment | to allow barmaids would “pass over my dead body.” ' Rep. Taylor came back with the query, “What's the difference if women are behind bars or in front of them?” There is a serious manpower shortage, he said, and added, “You might say we have a womanpower longage.” Rep. Steve Vukovich put in a prophesy that Alaska would be bone dry within- five years, should the amendment ‘'be adopted. That ‘at- témpt, to -liberalize liquor control INSURE Your Sunday Dinner By Getting THE NECESSARY INGREDIENTS 433 459 Henning's 4 4 Total 4311323 Spot 4— 12 | Department of Public Welfare au- |thority to set standards for, regulate and license boarding . homes and other institutions in the business of caring for children. Partly cloudy, with light rain or snow Saturday after- . noon. Partly cloudy tonight. Cloudy Sunday, with snow changing to rain. Tempera- tures: Coldest tonight, 33°; warmést Sunday, 39°. Secevcoeccvccsee |a majority by one vote. | Despite statements in support of ® 9 06 e 0o the bill by Russell Maynard, Wel- fare Director, the Senate acted against the general principle of giv- ;ina more regulative power than nec- iessary to a bureau. “It goes Birthday Party Held for Ryan s th crain o e on s t # er,” Senator Shattuck said. Many friends called at the Walter| just in case—the Senate passed G. Hellan home on Distin Avenue ‘E,ennmr Tolbert Scott’: : le | 's Senate Bill }“t;‘ nls;lkt‘ to wish Mrs. Hellan's \No 10, raising the excise tax on hard b:rt :;. omas J. Ryan, a hflPPY}llquors from $1 to $2 per gallon. Ten ay. 2 Senators voted to move the measure During the evening, punch, sand- | over to the House to guard @gainst wiches, birthday cake and coffee |failure of other measures which in- were served to the guetss. clude whiskey levy increases among The Senators| !split 8 to 8 on the measure, missing | ® ithe measure by the Senate. | midnight, according to an announce- Close Vote Closest vote of the session so far I ment from the éffice of Gov. Ernest was_recorded for Senator Howard | Lyng’s bill, Senate No. 61, giving the ! Greuning. v % 3 Gov. Gruening ' annoupces the closure order for Alaskart.applica- tion-has been left, to his discretion iand that the law shall not apply to Alaska by his decree, though city governments can themselves enact |such a rule if they wish. “This midnight curfew is deemed necessary in the States to conserve coal and - alleviate the manpower | shortage and burdens upon trans- portation and other facilities,” Gruening declared, adding, “After consultation with various agencies to | consider what savings might be ef- fected by application of the curfew to Alaska, I have determined that | benefits derived would be negligible.” | i ———————— DEGREE TEAM BACK ' The Rev. Willis R. Booth, Walter |A. Stewart 170 158 92 123 114 114 190— 518 126— 341 114—°342 F. Henning J. Separd M. Davlin 380 399 434—1213 Race's Drug 141 169 178 153 145 154 Total W. King H. Barragar E. Hendrickson. 121— 420 Total 464 476 423—1363 20th Century Meat .20 20 . 174 176 107 96 103 116 404" 408 Sabin’s 167 127 106 20— 60 194— 544 | 137— 340 122— 341 473—1285 Spot . L. Hudson J. Shepard .. 1. Wildes Total 161 127 147 Total 400 435 441—1276 *—Average; did not bowl. The schedule for next Friday night, March 18, is as follows: 7:30 p. m.—Alleys One and Two— | Race's Drug vs. Sabins; Alleys Three and Four—Henning's vs. 20th Cen- tury Market. 8:30 p. m —Alleys One and Two— Butler, Mauro vs. Ordway’s; Alleys Three and Four—Percy’s Cafe vs.| Juneau Drug. AWVS DANCE ON TONIGHT The American Women's Voluntary Services cabaret dance is the big event tonight and will be given in the Elks' Ballroom. Reservations for tables indicate a large attend- ance and a special floor show has been arranged. 190— 518 127—*381 12¢4— 3T G. Waugh B. Hudson Empire want ads get quick results. O &Y |sharp. Try to be there. —————-——— PUBLIC CARD PARTY! By Sons of Norway, 8:30 p. m.,|Bil No, 59, by Senators Shattuck Saturday, in Odd Fellows Hall.|and Frank Whaley, providing for | morning from Ketchikan, where Conge and sandwiches. A short|first action on appointments, sub- | meeting for members at 8 p. m. mitted to the Legislature for con-| tion to the FPirst City’s Masonic | Adv. firmation, by Legislators from the | Lodge. Itheir provisions. | B. Heisel, Howard D. Stabler and | The patronage insuring act, Senate | John J. Fargher, Masonic Degree Team, returned to Juneau this they paid a week’s official visita- S Alaska Chas. PHONE 473 Chrysler Marine Eligine If You Want ® Dependability, power and speed ® A safe and compact engine ® The most reasonable priced marine engine on the market ® Economical operation and upkeep ® The most widely used marine engine in ® A quiet, easy-to-idle engine for trolling : * There Is a Chrysler for EVERY Type Boat! * WE CAN FURNISH QUICK DELIVERY . . . We carry a complete stock of replacement paris Authorized Agents 000000000000 A O Install a ia Under a reconsideration motion, & Suest at the Baranof. the bill must be held over a day! PR R T for a new vote Monday, and Mon-! DURKEE HERE day is the fiftieth day of the ses-| L. R. Durkee, of the Federal sion, the last on which bills can Public Works office in Seattle, is pension of the rules. | e e McCutcheon, calling the maneu-: JUDGE KEHOE HERE ver “dirty,” moved for immediate| Judge J. W. Kehoe, Second reconsideration under suspension of Division Federal Court at Nome, rules, but could not muster the is visiting in Juneau. He is a guest necessary two-thirds majority. at the Gastineau Hotel. If the measure is not passed b 5 o R R Monday before the Senate adjourns, OLSEN IN TOWN it will have little chance of getting |Jacob Olsen is visiting in the Capi- the two-thirds vote necessary L0|Lal City, and is registered at Hotel admit it to the upper house under ! Juneau. be transmitted to the Senate ex- now in Juneau. Ke is staying at; {cept by a two-thirds majority sus-;the Baranof Hotel. JUNIOR SKIERS TO BE IN CHARGE SUNDAY Tomorrow, on Lue Douglas Ski Run, the Junior Ski Club will be in charge of the cabin, taking care of the fires and bringing up sup- plies. Skiers report perfect snow cof- ditions for the fans tomorrow, ess jpecially at the second cabin. The {Junior Club hike up the trail will |start at 10 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing. ——————— - GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL WILL MEET MONDAY The Girl Scout Council will hold i the regular monthly business meet- ing Monday afternoon, March 12, in the penthouse of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, at 2 oclock. This is an important meeting, and all members are urged {to attend. ——,——— WINTHER HERE Sig Winther, ington, is a guest at the Juneau Hotel. | | | | —— FROM ANCHORAGE Charles Peterson, Anchorage, is a guest at the Juneau Hotel. o SRR S O FROM McGRATH Mrs. W. R. 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