The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 8, 1947, Page 1

() “r HE DAILY AL “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SKA EMPIRE e=—— VOL. LXVL, NO. 10,676 JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1947 _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT} == x| 3 CONVICTED, VOTE FRAUDS, KANSAS CITY Federal Grand Jury Re- turns Guilty Verdicls in | 1946 Primary Election | KANSAS CITY, Sept. 8. — (P— Three Democratic Party worke: stood convicted today of vote f{raud | charges growing out of the 1946 Kansas City primary election. A Federal Court Jury returned a | guilty verdict late Saturday in the trial of Morris Klein, Henry Burke | and Frank L. Holmes. They were the first of 34 persons indicted by a special Federal Grand Jury to stand trial. Two other defendants, John Mel- ham and William D. Wilson, origi- | nally went on trial with the three but their motions for acquittal were sustained last Friday. The maximum penalty is 10 years imprisonment or a $5000 fine, or both. The Kansas City Star began the original investigation into alleged irregularities in the primary, in| which Enos Axtell defeated Rep.| Roger C. Slaughter in the Missouri Fifth District Congressional race; | Axtell, who was endorsed by Presi- dent Truman, lost to Republican | Albert L. Reeves in the general elec- tions. et up,UP | i The price of bread in Juneau is now 22 cents a loaf, bottom breadi at 25 cents. The price of milk has also been upped and is now 30 cents | per quart, plus 15 cents for bottle, | refunded when returned, however. ! - e———— | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—(P-—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ! stock today is 4%, American Can!| 86':, Anaconda 32%, Curtiss-Wright | 5%, International Harvester 834, Kennecott 43%, New York Central 14’4, Northern Pacific 19'%, U. S Steel 68, Pound $4.03%. Sales today were 830,000 shares. Averages today were as follows: 5 i | |—A HOTFIGHT EXPECTED AT POLLS Pennsylvafiié Republicansf Hold Primary Election | on Tomorrow HARRISBURG, heated battle Stores, Go fo KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 8. (P—Business men closed all stores and saloons in this Alaskan port today and a committee of ap- proximately 100 citizens marched to jHeckman dock and offered to un- 1 an incoming ship in defian striking longshoremen. The vessel was the Sailor’s Splic a Northland Transportation Com- ‘pany freighter bringing supplies from le Pa., Sept. 8—M over a vacant| Republican seat in Congress is expected tomorrow in Pennsyl- vania’s primary election with Phil H. Storch, 36-year-old president of the CIO-Lehigh Valley Newspaper of Ketchikan Mercha Longsheremen, U nis Close Dock fo Defy nload Ship CAINHAS GOOD WORD FOR NORTH okesmen for the businessmen T e £58Y o Senator Affer Alaska Visit| announced they would handle cargo! on the dock—work usually per-| formed by’ tne longshoremen-— 1 Returns South — New | members ol he Sailors nion o . Industry Big Boost | the Pacific (AFL) would unload the ship. Sailors Union represen- | SEATTLE, Sept. 8.—(P—Satisfied | | that Alaska is now a strong corner- | tatives called Seattle and San| ! Prancisco headquarters for in-| structions, then asked for a meet-! e in America’s defense, Sen. | ing of the AFL Central Labor|y P Guin "B, Mew back to| Council this afternoon to decide|geqitle Saturday night after a 10- | upon a course of action | day tour of the Territory | { “Alaskans do not feel they arel! Guild, opposing 37-year-old Frank- " . | being let down. T was amazed at | lin H. Lichtenwalter, Republican juneau Ke'(hlkan S'rlkes the vast amount of constru | speaker of the sta'e House of Rep- | [ { work completed and underwa | resentatives. g the morale of our armed forces While Pennsylvania voters will there 35 as fine as T have seen any- | be choosing party candidates for! o, (Io lon g horemen Are | Where,” the Senator said. Cain him- | thousands of local offices, either {self spent three years overseas in| Storch or Lichtenwalter will be, {the paratroopers. | elected to fill the unexpred term; | cain, responsible for pushing the | of the late Charles L. Gerlach, |so-called Tongass National Forest | Republican- who had been named to his fifth term in office from the! GOP Eighth Congression- | ct, comprising Lehigh and counties. | Bucks Storch-—w.th tiie packing of CIO, | Recepfion AFL and p Leaders—has anncunced his inten- Railroad Brotherhood | L] [tion of voting for repeal of the| Is Tonl h' Taft-Hartley Labor Law if elected. | Lichtenwalter—in statements ad- | to the 72027 Republicans and 46490 Democrats eigible tof A ‘dinier party honoring memn- vote in the district—said “I am ob-|>°.° © PHES S I tee and their wives and Mr. viously tle b i & ;sou:h}ntut}lll;izh:m?d:c‘l azl'lw te").ehefror;‘nifldgar VaRpMS, e el Oonsul i 8 the Pacific Northwest and Alaska dressed for :Sl‘anack on; . the Tafl-flm’tleyiwm be given at the Governor's 3 i 3 House this' “evening. - Piaces ibeen set for 30 i Following the dinner a public {reception will be held Leginning at 9:30 o'clock. Everyone is cor- dially invited to attend the recep- tion to meet the visitors. | Guests of honor at this eve- {ning’s affair are: Rep. Fred Craw- iford, Rep. William Dawson, Rep. land Mrs. J. J. Y. LeFevre, Rep. I {and Mrs. E. H. Jenison, Miss Re- ]gma C. Gardiner, Delegate E. L., i Bartlett, Mr. Joseph T. Flakne| ey iand Mr. Vaughn. | Death TO" mn RIO' S(a"ed G. Edgar Vaughn, British Con- i{sul, will make a formal presenta- jtion of the King's Medal for Ser- ivice in the Cause of Freedom to !Mr.x Errest Gruening this evening. iMrs. Gruening was awarded the ~—IM—The 'medal for her work in collecting New Delhi Runs Info Scores-New Edict NEW DELHI, Sept. 8 Industrials, 175.14; rails, 47.14;| { aus |members of armed groups in theiclothes to send o England during utilities, 35.09. ; : in th <o ](cnor-tom regions of the Eastern the war. The King’s Medal for STOCK MARKET LOWER |20d Western Punjab will be captur- Service in the Cause of Freedom ed and “"placed in concentration was instituted in 1945 by K2 Railroad and heavy industry is-| sues led the stock market lower to- day. Losses extended to more than | two points. Traders were cautious. | The foreign situation and prospects of an early setback in American economy were prime reasons for to- gunfire echoed through the streets | camps, the new Dominions of In- George VI for szrvices “in furth- |dia. and Pakistan announced today.'erance y of the interests of the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru British Commonwealth in the Allied and Ligjuat Ali Khan made thisicauSe during the war” by persons announcement jointly as mlicelwho.are rot British subjects. | Awarded the same medal Iast (ausing Inj. Depl. Worries - tory. A third strike a; Seward Out endangering Alaska’s main in- | has been settled ard officials | Austy. its fisheries,” Cain caid. | here hope the other two wil. be| Talks with Alaskan spokesmen | [bill through Congress in the last | { hour of its sessions in Washington, S T | expressed confidence measures of | WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—P—O1-} tpo i) would greatly ease American als of the Interior Department’s|nawsorint problems. | A‘l ..Em Division are run‘\iderably\ Under the measure passed by | worried over pr conditions "r"(:ongresi. the government would | fecting Alaska-shipping and h""“‘;omn virtually all the vast timber | tracts of Southeast Alaska to pri- CIO longshorcmen jurisdictional | Vate production of newsprint | |strikes at Juneau and Ketchikan| ‘“Alaskan forests have a potential| |have tied up shipping at a time!©f 1,000,000 tons of newsprint an- [when the Department is trying to Dbually and I am confident that this |get winter supplies to the Terri- DNew industry can be built up with- | | ing. | |from all branches of government | jeettled during this week. i The housing situation, however, |and industry convinced Cain, the |has officials worried about how | Senator said, that damages to the people who have gone to Alaska |fishing industry from pulp fluid and ¢ | logs in streams can be averted. this summer are going to get| through the nter. One Depart-| “Furthermore the trip convinced ‘men official said that more than|Me that by proper use of ax 80-year 11,000 persons had gone to Fair-,cyele of selective logging, there is, banks during the summer and are 1O danger that this huge resource | living in “tents and tar-paper’ will be wasted. Instead, at the end shacks” while the housing at An-|©f 80 years Alaskan timber resources the Territory's mgges“will be greater than they are to-| | day,” Cain said. The United States, Cain said, now Persons going into the Territory !buys 80 per cent of its newsprint | during the last few months trav-|from markets outside its continental | eled over the Alaska Highway boundaries. through Canada, and only workmen | and those who intend to settle m“ | the Territory are permitted to i travel the road by the Canadian | e u(e har e government. It prohibits tourists' i from using the road because of| inadequate accommodations, | . ! Opening of land along the Al-| n aylng ase aska Highway on August 1 has' | given an impetus to the Alaska-| | bound veterans and by next sum-‘A' Fa i rba n k s‘ 1 | mer the Department expects they will have set up tourists camps and gasoline stations along the TENE : highway. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 8— “Many of the people who have i |M—A first degree murder charge come into Alaska this summer are ¢ . | against Herbert G. Hager, 38, a bar- | dey's slump. Trading was quiet. 1?1” Ne“'th?fll}_l itself. The_deanhlyear were Mr. James McNaugh- veterans who served in Alaska | tender and former pilot, was re-| & |toll in this riot-scarred capital of iton and Mr. H. L. Faulkner for during the war,” an official said. | duced to second d s't 1-d: by /the Dominion of India climbed |their efforts in raising funds to “They ‘gripped about ti while serv- | b C g b0 Second degree Saturday by The Washington Merry - Go- Round| By DREW PLAREON i By DREW PEARSON | WASHINGTON, The inner White House fead between two of the President’s oldest friends,! Gen. Harry Vaughan, the military aide, and brain truster Clark Clif-| ford, took a new turn for the worse just before Truman left for Rio de Janeiro. For some time Clifford has scarcely concealed” his' dislike for the garrulous, meddling military| aide who hobnobs with John Mara- gon, the ex-Kansas City Lootblack and who has dragged all sorts of| queer people in to take up the| President’s time with personal in- terviews. On the other hand, General Vaughan calls Clifford the “great brain” and is obviously jealous of Clifford’s close “in"‘ with the President. Latest flare-up occurred Wwhen | vaughan and his sidekick, Secre-| tary of Treasury John Snyder, who visited Rio de Janeiro last spring, worked out. a completé itinerary for Truman. Vaughan then sub-| mitted this as a “tentative pro-! gram.” It proved very “tentative’ t —after Clark Clifford heard about| it. i “I'm handling all deétails of the| boss's trip,” vaughan. “This is something we've (Continued on Page Four) he bluntly informed| into the scores as groups of Sikhs,{aid England. | Hindus and - Moslems continued ! Mr. Vaughn said that he would' communal clashes. lalso like to extend thanks te the One hundred thousand copies of imembers of the American Women's the statement of the two Prime|Voluntary Service and to Mr. and Ministers will be dropped in af-iMrs. B. D. Stewart for their ex- fected areas in the Punjab, center |cellent work and support of the of some of the most bloody com-|“Bundles For Britain” program. munal disturbances. i The Prime Ministers said that‘ 1] members of armed groups would " r"l ' A l be shot down if caught engaging o 'es Ir lnes in disorders and asserted that the; sovermments of tndia and pacison. REPOITS OM Alaska would take all steps to see that! S . ! their officials carried out the or- B “I Y b usiness 1nis year SRl | ol 75 | i i i SEATTLE, ' Sept. 8.—(®—During Hedroul'ed ithe past year, 14,661 revenue pas- sengers were carried on the Alaska ln Bed unde' Odd Imghtss of Northwest Airlifq':s :nd (ir(ums'an(es 98 percent of the scheduleg flights to the Territory were completed, WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.—P—A according to Dean J. Hanscom,! Seattle, Westerh Traffic Manager two-year-old girl was killed today ! by an electric fan which she appar- for the company. Hanscom said that during the ently had pulled off a window sill |same time, 434,929 pounds of mail; and into her bed. 120,342 pounds of express, and 214, Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald 1515 pounds of freight were trans: said it appeared from burns on the |ported over the airline’s Seattle-| left leg and right arm that Sharen |Anchorage, and Twin . Citi Anne Alpers had been electrocuted. { Anchorage routes. | Her mother, Mrs. Lowell R. Alp-i oo | ers, told police she had stepped out LINCOLN RETURNS ‘\ of the room for a moment and that Ernest E. Lincoln, Manager of ; when she returned the child was! the Regional Office of the Veterans | * indeed | 88sPing, With an eight-inch fan on Administration in Juneau, returned scheduled to arrive tomorrow after- her face. “off" position. \ e AT HOTEL JUNEAU Mrs. Jchn Thune and Mrs. Iva Nabing and child, of Seattle, are staying at the Hotel Juneau. The switch was on the | here yesterday via P, from a two weeks business tri to the Seattle | |VA office. | BB ™ RS FROM INTERIOR | Norman Stines, of Fairbanks, is | stopping at the Baranof Hotel, U. 8. Commissioner 'Everett . Smith at a preliminary hearing into the fatal shooting of Harry C. Weiselman. | ing there, but they are coming ! back now to settle permanently.” Officials refused to discuss the Z?ysixxg plans, ; ying it now Lsi Smith released Hager on $10,000 Atlms given consideration. The | pail after holding that evidence was | laska Housing Authority has|insufficient t support a first ds recommended to President Tmmant‘greg charges. Weiselman was :hc that akout 5,000 housing units be August 17 in a Fairbanks hotel constructed there. ——————— s | “The housing situation in Alaska . is worse than anywhere in the na- pRAIR'E FIRE DID 2 MILLION | tion,” an official said. ‘We must find some sort of solution before cold weather arrives. We are work- ing on it, but cannot discuss our plans now.” William E. Warne, assistant sec- retary of Interior, who has been in Alaska, is expected to return to- day and officials here hope he will have some solution of the problem. Joseph Fiakne, Chief of DOLLAR DAMAGE PIFRRE, S. D,, Sept. 8.—(®Cost | of the prairie fire which swept over | about 600 square miles of central | the Alaska Division, also is in the|SOuth Dakota farm and grasslands | Territory and will return about|Friday was estimated today by October 1. bankers and farmers at more than | Officials said that people who|$2:000,000. | went to Alaska this spring anqd| Greatest loss was in hay which summer had no difficulty gettind|had been counted up to feed the jobs but that now is a bad time|15.000 heads of cattle in the area | through the winter. Value of stack- | for others to start for the Terri- tory as seasonal employment ends|€d hay destroyed was estimated at $800,000, and an equal amount was with the coming of cold weather. ————e—— | burned in the fields. | - SIEAMH! nUVEMEmS NEWSMAN HERE David N. Johnson and wife, of Princess Louise, from Vancouver, Boise, Idaho, representing the Idahc Daily Statesman, are on a vacation | to Alaska, roundtrippers aboard the Alaska. i - eee — SALESMEN HERE John Melquist and Walter Loman, of Seattle, and G. S. Vance, of Ta- coma, are staying at the Baranof Hotel, They are salesmen, noon or evening. Princess Norah scheduled to sail from Vancouver Sept. 10. Baranof scheduled to sail Seattle Saturday at 10 a. m. Alaska in port and scheduled to sail south during afternoon, from 'SHIPPING COSTS | Alaska’s {labor unions are mainly to blame, make more sofl fit for cultivation” statehood. { world | Crawford. | He Statehood, Transportation Problems Taken Up Today By Housg Subcommitiee A hearing on the problems in volved in statehood for Alaska and transportation got underway this morning in the Senate Chambers before the House Subcommittee on Territorial and Insular Possessions ARE STRANGLING !1 Also seated at the hvaruu:‘ table Congressman Crawford| Yo, a5t Senton at - Says Present, Future nois, Willlam A. Dawson of Utah and Alaska's Delegate E. L. Bart- E Jeopardized | conomy Jeoparaize Territorial Commissioner of Edu- S | cation James C. Ryan presented a Rep. Crawford (R-Mich) says|request to the committee that the that a solution to Alaska’s high|pending statehood bill be amended transportation costs is the answed| to provide that at le four to most of the Territory's prob-|in each township be set aside for lems. “The one factor of high' the state for educational purposes transportation costs,” said Craw-|He pointed out that this was the ford, “is alone causing the strang-'case in other states where the land ulation of the Territory’s present is of poor quality and future economy.” Answering questions concerning Rep. Crawford, three other Re-|education, Ryan pointed out that the Territory is not short of teach- ers but that housing facilities are inadequate, that salaries are higher than in the States, but living costs are also higher. publican and one Democrat Con- gressmen are members of the House Public Lands Committee making an inspection tour of Alaska in- vestigating the pros and cons of pending legislation on statehood Allen Shattuck, representing the for the Territory, land settlement, Juneau Chamber of Commerce, also National Forests, the Alaska Rail-| Presented a réquest for the setting road and aboriginal claims. The Aside of five sections in each town- afternoon on an Army plane from that when these sections fall in the Kodiak, via Cordova, and will; National Forests they be administ- leave tomorrow for Ketchikan. |ered under the supervision of the | U. 8. Forest Service. Other members of the party are| Representatives William Dawson Hight Cost of Statehood (Utah), E. H, Jenison (1), and/ Shattuck, representing himself, J. Y. LeFevre (N. Y., and also submitted testimony concern- Delegate E. L. Bartlett.|ing the cost of statehood. He as- Joseph T. Flakne, Director of the|serted that the tax load under state- Alaska Branch, Division of Terri-|hood would be too heavy to bear and tories of the Interior Department, that before the last election voters is travelling with the committee. Were influenced by misleading state- Miss Regina C. Gardiner is com- ments appearing in George Sund- mittee reporter. | borg’s special statehood study news- paper. The Congrassmen form the House‘ Shattuck said that it is charged Subcommittee on Territories and, Alaskans do not pay taxes now, |Insular Possessions of the Public|pyg 29 States have lower per capita Lands Committee. | taxes, and that under statehood the per capita tax would be almost double that of the highest now paid | Rep. Dawson suggested that be- cause of the large native population in Alaska which doesn’'t pay mar taxes, possibly about 40,000 persons would be subject to ta . and that by narrowing this figure down on a family basis, about 10,000 persons Rep. Crawford placed the blame for Alaska's high transportation costs on various Federal agencies and the people of Alaska, as well, for permitting transportation rates to get out of hand. He stated that the steamship companies and tut that could have been pre- > vented from raising costs if it had would have to bear Ll,r tax load not been for the lack of proper under statehood, resulting in pay- 4 13 s B f about $850 per year. regulations and watchfulness over Ments of miir sty Shattuck suggested that the Ter- !ritory would have to adopt an in- The Michigan legislator stated ccme tax and a general property that he is vitally interested in the tax in order to raise enough money settlement and growth of Alaska. to meet the present deficit in the He declared that much productive Territory’s finances, which is about agricultural land is waiting here $4,000.000 for this biennium to be cultivated and developed. He Delegate Bartlett pointed out that wants to see Alaska homesteaded the Territory in the past had peti- and cee its lands produce needed tioned Congress to turn over the agricultural crops. fish and wildlife management to “It would cost approximately Alaska and also to bring Alaska $150 per acre to develop good ag- under the Federal Highway Act ricultural land in Alaska,” he ex- Figures for the support of the fish plained, “but, in the Statcs, we are and wildlife management and con- spending approximatcly $500 per tributions under the Highway Act acre in the form of reclamation Were included by Shattuck in his and irrigation projects in order to €S imates of the increased costs for “The U. 8. and the rest of the Crawford's Views needs the foodstuffs that Rep. Crawford brought out that Alaska can and must produce, d Shattuck’s figures would have to “As a matter of fact,” be higher in case the cost of living he explained, “we need everything continues to rise, and lower in case you can send us but your gold.” of a business recessioh. explained that people outside Chris Hennings, Territorial rep- of the gold producing areas are resentative of the CIO, testified not interested in the gold business that his organization favored state- because it interferes with the pro- hood at its last convention. He said duction of other things which are De represented 12.000 to 14.000 needed at the present time. members who would pay higher Rep. Crawford stated that anoth- taxes for statehood. g er step toward opening up the Thomas Moore, representing the Territory would be to remove the Alaska Territarial Federation of cloud of aboriginal claims. He Labor, stated his organization fav- said that this should be done le- ored statehood at its last conven- gally and without dela |tion and said he represented 10.000 —_ e | workers, 8,500 of them Alaska resi- | dents. MAD DOG SHOI ""S ievf;'e ll‘..wFa“u.lll;:nlxmnhn dmw;:x":.,‘.u.-; MORNING BY POLICE committee an | gave oral testimony concerning the % transportation problem. He said it A mad dog was shot at 9:30 a. Chief of !is idle to discuss statehood or any- thing else until the problems of m. today by Assistant em Y £ #4% Police Walter Sinn on Seward|r2nsportation are settled. Street near the Juneau Hotel. Sinn| Alaska's Financial Troubles was notified by a passerby that| Regarding the Territory's present a dog covered with foam Was | ginancial troubles, Faulkner said he running wildly around Con-| epresented the World War II Vet- firming ":E facts in a quick ln-;fll'fl"s Board in a recent court case vestigation, Sinn decided the Dbest|jn which the Territory sued the course to follow was to use his|poard to get back a $350,000 loan gun. Tt was an unlicensed dog.| which the Territory made when set- black and white in color, and of| __ no particular breed, ontinued on l’}xér Efv‘hll” ' thorizations | i U.S., RUSSIAN RELATIONS GROW TENS SPLITON EUROPEAN " SITUATION .Diplomaticmicials Pre- i dict New, Rougher Phase at UNGA WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. — (# Diplomatic officials predicted today that American relations with Russia l are likely to enter a new and rough- ! | er phase at the United Nations ‘Gvnernl Assembly session opening A whole series of dramatic diplo- matic developments heightening ihe {ing vitally upon related problems ‘ul the European economic crisis are | tary of State Marshal leads the Am- erican delegation to the assembly Foremost among these will be the Truman administration’s decision of Congress to consider a tempor- ary aid fund for Europe. This would which the administration hopes Congress will provide early next recovery program. State Department experts gave up in New York next week. Russo-American conflict and bear- in prospect before and after Secre- ,meetlnz. on whether to call a special session be an advance against the billions year for the long term Marshall ithrir weekend holiday to work on |group arrived here late yesterday Ship for the state with the proviso ;the latest facts and figures American officials brought back from the cur- Irént Paris Economic Conference seeking to translate the mutual- help idea into concrete terms. While it has not been emphasized in recent State Department pro- nouncements ou the subject. one of the main considerations in of- ficial thinking on the European sit- uation is this: If the United States does not take some measures to help hard-pressed European coun- | tries exist until the Marshal plan can become effective, Russia will take advantage of the resulting political and social upheavals to pusly Communism aggressively in western Europe. | - ee——— ALASKA PROJECTS, HARBORS, RIVERS SURVEYS APPROVED WASHINGTON, sSept. 8. —(A— While the 80th Congress did not make any rivers and harbors au- this year, the 79th Congress in its two sessions pro- vided for surveys and examina- ions of 32 projects in Oregon, Washington and Alaska by Army Engineers. Some of (lem alreadyy arc un- der way and survey work has started on others. The list does not include those projects in the iwo states that already were under construction when the surveys were ordered. In Alaska the preliminary exam- nations were approved for these project: Sitka Harbor; Cordova Harbor; and Olga Strait; Up- ser Kvichak Harbor; Kodiak Har- sor; Skagway Harbor; Valdez Harbor; Cook Inlet; Anchorage Harbor; Hydaburg Harbor; An- Channel to con- Neva Straft goon Harkor; nect lower Oliver Inlet and Sey- mour Canal; Tenakee Harbor; Pel- Har- can Harbor and Gustavus bor. WEATHER REPORT . . . . ® Temperature for 24-Hour e Period Ending 7:30 o'Clock . This Morning . In Juneau—Maximum, 51: ® minimum, 42. ie At Airport—Maximum, 57; |® minimum, 47. Il WEATHER FORECAST e (Jumeau and Vielnity) . Cloudy with some occasion- e al light rain and not much ¢ change in temperature to- ® night and Tuesday. | ° PRECIPITATION @ (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today) I. In Juneau 08 inches; 1® since Sept. 1. 3.08 inches: | ® since July 1, 1631 inches. {® At Alrport — .19 inches: e since Sept. 1, 1.77 inches: o since July 1, 12.04 inches.