The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 10, 1946, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE- — SALES TAX GIVEN MAULING AROUND MERCHANTS' MEET Juneau's retail merchants, in a standing-room-only session in the City Council chambers last night, dissected the new Alaska World War II Veterans’ Act sales tax but failed to reach any conclusion on the crucial quiestion: “Can the re- tailer pass the tax on to the custo- mer?” The following reactions to the question of the evening were not- ed: (1) Senator “The legislature lic to pay the merchants paid inequitable. If won't hurt anyone. make the public more scious.” (2) Attorney General Ralph Rivers: This is not a consumer’s tax. This is a retailer's tax. But the Territory doesn't care whether Allan Shattuck: intended the pub- tax. If only the the tax would be it'’s spread out it We've got to tax con- the retailers absorb or collect the tax so long as it's paid.” (3) City Attorngy Howard D. Stabler: “There are lots of bugs in tnis thing. The bill says specifi- cally the tax is to be paid by the retailer. Only a court can rule on it, but I don’t see how the retail- ers can pass it on.” OPA Viewpoint (4) George Rogers, Territorial Price Executive: “It's not my job to give a tax collection formula, but OPA has had phone calls all day about the tax. Our position is that if the Federal Government does not prohibit the tax, OPA permits the retaller to pass it on to the customer: but the tax must be collected separately so it will not affect price ceilings and must be stated separately on invoices and recorded separately.” (5) Albert White, attorney and owner of the Bon Marche Depart- ment Store: “I don't believe the law’s legal at all. Besides, consum- ers could send outside and avoid the tax. I'm not going to pay it.” (6) Bert McDowell, owner of | Bert's Grocery: “I don’t feel I can assume the tax because in the first place the law was not passed to penalize retailers; and secondly if we absorb the tax now when we are all doing well we’ll regret it lat- er competition keen again.” (1) Unidentified retailer: “You can't pass on a sales tax on items under 50 cents unless you round it out to one cent, which OPA won't| permit. sales are under 50 cents. group of retailers like me who have a high percentage of small sales under 50 cents. I'm willing to pay my share for the veterans but I ob- ject to paying taxes on half my business when other retailers go free.” Half my Extra Bookkeeping It also was established that Fed- eral Agencies could not be taxed by the Territory, that retailers in mining and other specified lines would pay the tax without being able to pass it on, that the legisla- |tors apparently overlooked OPA’s influence on administration of the sales tax, and that the levy would entail a large amount of extra bockkeeping. ‘The seco Lig ques.on raised last night was “Shall the retailer: form a Merchant's Association,” but it also went unanswered. Former Mayor Ernest Parsons 'urged that merchants organize on the spot and added that if pre- |vious attempts to organize had not 'been defeated the merchants might |have prevented the sales tax from ‘becoming law and also might have | forstalled the present shipping cri- sis. ! Parsons was supported by J. B. Burford who called for a show of hands vote on organization which revealed approximately half the gathering were ready to organize. A supplementary hand vote on whether or not to pass the tax to ] | busine: when goods are plentiful and| This tax will hit the Rivers suggested that the retailer seek a price adjustment with OPA and pointed out that | Sully's Bakery recently was per- mitted to raise the price of bread from 10 to 11 cents per loaf. No future meeting dates were an- nounced. e FUNERAL SERVICE FOR MRS. LEMIEUX BE HELD ON MONDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Louis Lemieux, sister of Capt. J. V. Davis and Pat Davis of Juneau, who died in Everett, Wash. last Sunday, wiil be held Monday morning at 11 o'clock in the Jaread Mortuary at Everett, according to word received here by Mrs. Pat Davis. J. V. Davis left last Wednesday to be with his sister following her admission to the Everett General Hospital for surgical care. Pat Da- vis, twin brother to the deceased, was informed of her death yester-|t, Fairbanks: Loreng Gisler, Dem-'ed the buyers three wholesale price day and flew immediately to Se- attle. He had beem on the Yakobi mail boat and could not be inform- ed when the news of Mrs. Lem- jeux’s death first reached Juneau Monday morning. Besides her brothers in this city, Mrs. Lemieux is survived by the following: her husband, Louis Lem- jeux, a son Jimmy Lemieux, daughter Barbara McAlister; er, Don e PROPERTY TRANSACTIONS Transfers of real estate recorded here during the past week include: House and lot on Sixth street PAABRINGS IN 13 ON SEATTLE TRIP Pan American Airways yesterday flew the following passengers and from Juneau: To Seattle: O. J. Blende, Hend- rick Valle, Mae Suhrbier, Wallis George, Joyce Ribers, Andrew Raatikainen, Charles Goldstein, Carl Peterson, W. C. Ribeneck, Pat Da- vis, Al Condon, Agnes Stoeckle, Maurice Curry, Roy Brown, Roy \Harding, Jack Matthews,” William Baker, Oscar Olsen, Herbert Smith, Paul Maier, Ethel Olsen, Ann Quist, William Covington, John Callahan, |James Morgan, Helen Maier, Carol Rivers. From Seattle: Fred Brandes, James Nolan, Troy Morgan, Ber- |nard - Dowling, Albert Zimmerly, | Omafaye Holman, Harry Froid !Marion Hopins, Virginia Carter, |Mary Trapp, Michael Trapp, Esther | Nelson, Neldia Morgan. i From Fairbanks: Martin 'MRS. DON McMULLIN | WILL BE PIANIST AT | ' METHODIST CHURCH al 1 her | mother, Mrs. R. E. Davis; a broth- | Davis, all of Whidby Is-| land; a brother, Linwood Davis of | Anaconda, Wash. and a youngeri | sister, Ruth Mrs. Don McMullin will be the Methodist Church pianist during the absence of Mrs. Ruth Popejoy who is going south for several months Mrs. McMullin is a graduate of | the University of Tulsa, and was on | | the staff at the University of Tulsa as instructor in piano and accom- | panist for the Fine Arts Depart- ment. | While at Tulsa, Mrs. McMullin to| a raise.” F o WEDNESDAY APRIL 10, 1946 DFU STRIKE VOTE [Chapeladies Areto | | THREATENS FLEET; | Serve Chop Sueyat . PRICEPROTESTED _Dinner on Saturday A secret ballot vote on a strike at the home of Mrs. Jennie Peter- that woud paralyze halibut fishing son and final plans were made for fleets in all Alaskan waters and in the chop suey dinner to be served Ithe Seat:le area is being tallied Saturday evening, April 13, at 6 now, Harold C. Aase, Juneau busi- o'clock. Everyone interested in the ness agent for the Deepsea Fisher-|work of the Chapeladies are asked men's Union of the Pacific (In- to attend. dependent), reported today. ' Present at last night’s meeting | Balloting will continue until Ap-|were Mesdames Arnold, Blake, Ep- ril 18 to permit fishermen now at| sea to vote, Aase said. |ing, Johnson, Bland and the hostess i Mrs. Peterson | Explaining that the strike is 0| There wer also two visitors, Mrs protest against the ceiling price on'p pilley and Mrs. Wi]llam‘v peé; tish, Aase said: “The price of liv-|arson. ing has gone up and only OPA can| give us a raise. We are not strik- ing against the fish buyers, but| Another sign of spring is issu- against the ceiling price. We took ance here by City Engineer J. L. a 40 percent price cut when OPA|McNamara of five building permits took control over fishing in July,|during fhe past week. They were 1943. I understand OPA has grant- jssyed to: t i | Owner Frank Harris for an ad- raises since then. This is our third gition to the Harbor Machine Shop season under control and we want . go5 West Eleventh street, esti- | mated cost $200; Triplette and Dal- The strike movement started in ziel contractors for remodelling in Ketchikan this spring and has led|the Territorial Building, $800; to current strike balloting in all Charles Boyer ccntractor for erec- union locals. The proposed strike!tion of a roof over the Royal Blue would affect all varieties of fish cap Company’s station on Frank- caught by the Deepsea Fishermen, jin street, $500; Catalino Barril for Aase concluded. construction of a single garage at | 608-A ‘Willoughby avenue, $400 and - | to Charles Forward for repairs to STABI[IZAIIO" | ccnerete porch and sidewalk and | parage repairs at his residence at BOARDIS OFFICE 11011 D street, cost $300. Elimination of the Alaska appro- oo BUILDING PERMITS ersen, Meilke, Hill, Maiers, Spauld- ° FIVE BOATS ARRIVE; SABLEFISH IS SOLD The Juneau Cold Storage Co. to- day reported arrival of the follow- ing boats and disposal of their sablefish catches: The Fern II, skippered by Capt. John Lowell, brought 12,000 pounds; the Gordon D. Capt. Dan Stan- worth, 6,800 ,pounds; the Rainier, Capt. Ed Skaret, 7,000 pounds; all sold to the Alaska Coastal Fisher- ies. The Exgp. *, Capt. Magnus Han- 10,000 pounds to Sebastian- Stuart Co. The Avona, Capt. John Maurstad, | 10,000 pounds to the New England Co. The present ceiling price on | sablefish is 92 cents. James E. Fritz Cove, Gastineau. Hill, resident is registered at on the Consistent Blend .. Year After Year Vacuum-Packed for Rich, Full Flavor RELIANCE PURE FOODS NATURALIZATION 'FRAUD REPORTED * DISCOVERED, SPAIN | LONDON, April 10—The Daily | Sketch in a dispatch from Barces= ilonn today said that Sir Victor Mallet, British ambassador to Mads rid, had asked the Spanish govern= ment to investigate reports of the “naturalization” at Barcelona of “274 Germang, many of them form= er Gestapo- agents.” The Sketch quoted tie British Consul General at Barceicna 2§ saying the “naturalizations,” most of them by adoption, had occurred: last year. The paper said, “Pres liminary investigations by Spanisi guthorities show that gang racks eteers pocketed 750,000 besetas nssa,.’ 000) by obtaining ngturalization papers for Germans wishing tu avoid deportations to Germany and possible arrests as war criminals) NATIONAL GROCERY CO. + 1000 Fourth Ave. So. + Seattle, Wash. | was president of Sigma Gamma priation by the Bureau of the Bug- the consumer was equally incon- clusive, although it was estimated that 60 percent of those present were ready to pass the tax on while the remaining 40 percent either was unwilling or had not decided on the question. Queried on the dilemna of the small sales retailer who must ab- sorb the tax on 50 percent of his Peyton to D. Wayne Stephenson; house on West Tenth street near Harbor Way, from Walter Robin- house and lot, from George Sheep- er to Edward Dick Jr.-.and house and lot at Seventh and Main streets, sold by J. Steele Culbertson to Frank Hermann. near Kennedy, sold by Mary Irene| son to Ray Westfall; Seatter Tract | Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, pro- fessional Women's Music Frater- nity. | She has worked with Bob Shaw, wno was the conductor of Fred Waring’s Chorus, and toured with Percy Grainger during one nenson4‘ | PLEADS GUILTY | | get is to result in immediate clos- ing of the Alaska office of the Wage Stabilization Board here, it was disclosed today by D. E. Davis, Alaska Representative. Davis plans to go south aboard the steamer North Sea when she sails, he said. He will be attached to the WSB's regional office at Seattle. Wage stabilization and FRESH VEGETABLES “Asls” GGl WIGE, Phone 16 or 24 ¢ Free Delivery | Wage Adjustment Board programs Donald Anderson, arraigned here are to continue in effect in the yesterday afternoon before U. S. Territory, but will be handled trom Commissioner Felix Gray, pleaded Seattle. guilty to a ‘charge of assault and; Davis has been in charge of the | battery. Sentence was deferred un-IWSB office, and that of its pre- .til 2 o'clock this afternoon. Idecessor agency, the War Labor | Anderson was charged by Edward |Board, here since July 1, 1945, when Nielsen of striking the Juneau he succeeded Dr. Charles F. Bat- | Councilman on the head with aitin as WLB's Alaska Director. He fist. The attack occurred Monday Was recently joined by his two | evening as Nielsen was leaving a young sons, who have found Alas- local theater. The Counciiman ka much to their liking. made the arrest. Anderson was be- | FIRRNE o2 k VH { ing held today under $100 bond. It {15 reported that the attack ‘;At:\;nimjuufllou SOUGHT; Nielsen resulted from a m e b 3 COURT ISSUES WRIT Notice to the Public: The undersigned News Dealers of Juneau wish to announce that on and after April 11th we will add 5 CENTS to marked price of all magazines. By doing this we will eliminate any further increase in price on any mer- chandise in order to take ecare of the Alaska Sales Tax. Butler, Mauro Drug Co. Juneau Drug Co. Harry Race, Druggist, Inc. Warfield Drug Co. Alstrom’s News Stand o T0 SEIZE GILL NET Presiding District Court Judge J. 'W. Kehoe has signed an order set- ting April 22, at 10 o'clock a. m. for defendants Sander A. Wilson, Larry Bahm and E. O. Fields to !show cause why they should not be enjoined from interfering with John Lawson’s possession of a tide- lands area and boat shed located between Tenth and Eleventh streets and between F. Street and Harbor Way in Juneau. In addition to an order restrain- ing the defendants from entering jupon the property, plaintiff Law- son also seeks $205 damages and $100 attorney fees. In a second District Court action, the United States vs. One Gillnet, a writ of seizure has been issued upon a Libel of Information. The net was taken by Fish and Wildlife Patrol Agent Frank Reed at Red Bay, North Coast of Prince of Wales Island, August 19, 1945. The seized gear was being used in fish- ing for salmon in closed waters. U | RIVERS TO DISCUSS - SALES TAX, MEETING | OF C OF CTOMORROW. Ralph Rivers, Attorney Géeneral for Alaska, will speak on the sales tax issue as an introduction open forum discussion on the subject to- morrow noon before members of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at their regular luncheon-meeting in {the Baranof Gold Room. All members of the chamber have questions and organize their view- points on the issue so that the open forum may result in a worthwhile | discussion. i In charge of the program are Chairman Claude Carnegie and Eckley Guerin, . - Processing of Cane ‘WASHINGTON, April 10.—Unions affiliated with the CIO and AFL today called a strike at 11:59 p. m. (EST) Saturday in seven East Coast refineries processing 70 per- cent of the nation’s cane sugar as major stoppages persisted across {the country. A union statement said negotia- tions with the refining companies been requested to formulate lead 'Sugar Stopped, Strike' were stymied and the unionists con- tended the companies refused to accept as binding recommendations of a Labor Department fact-find- ing panel. iEORGE BROTHER Juneaw’s Oldest Super Maricet Phone 92-95—2 Free Deliveries Daily Tomato Juice, No. 2sie - @cans$§.00 Carrof Juice, Diamond A - @ cans $3.00 Borene Soap Chips - - phas. $1.00 Spaghetfi, Franco - American & ans § 1 Chili Con Carne, Carsien’s - Van (amp'sBeans, 120z. - ONIONS 3ans$1 Sans$§1 ONIONS 2 POUNDS 25¢ We Reserve Right to Limit Grapefruit Juice, No. 2 size - Small Peas, Le Suseur - - - GGMSIV 4ans§1 Cranberry Sauce, gallons - Each $2.25 CornedBeef - - @lb. ans $4.50 | RoastBeef- - - - - largefins§8¢ Imported Swedish Anchovies gal. §4.75 Rolimops Herring - Gallon §5.75 | NEW POTATOES 3 POUNDS 29