The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 7, 1949, Page 2

FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1949 PAGE TWO ATF OF L ARY| MAKES STATEMENT, PROPOSED TAXATION Ition Bureau of America and written corporations declined 564 by Arthur A. Elder, Consultant to lion yearly, taxes on consumers |the American Federation of Labor’s the f of levies on sales, use Committee on Taxation, Moore ar increased ap- v mmo the following points: 3 . Dur- armists are all too ready to period the cost of liv- point to this huge (national) tax from 1284 to 1585 bill and declare that our economy poration profits in- is going to the bow-wows. In- $8.9 billion to $16.9 “Labor generally, and especially |4 igent members of organized insofar as the Alaska Territorial Labor, however, raise only two per- Federation of Labor is concerned, g e’ cuections regarding the de- opposed to any tax which burd-| bty of one-fourth of our the lov income Rroup,” |y ecent national income being de- as J. Moore, Executive Sec- y,eoq (o defraying the costs of y of the ATF of L sald goueriment, They ask first wheth- arsday before leaving for his o, ¢ne present tax burden is nec- tion’s ention in SHKa, secary Their second very natural to ns regarding the guogtion is how the tax burden af- | Moore Alaska fects the economy. It is obvious ited that he felt that a tax policy that unduly bur- alph Rivers' dens one sector or another of our be introduced economy can be one of the major on of the Terri- contributing factors to a future, de- ited to a well- pression. Alaska. «.we cannot escape the conclu- sion that taxes should remain high, certainly as long as the pres- ent inflationary trends continue 5 and income and production con- tinue at a high level. And it fol- lows that any shiiting of the tax burden to the low income Umm\ "8 [gver a period of time, therefor {will result in decreased ]!\nl]m\m' Quoting in part a recent release |power that will be reflected in prepared by the Workers Educa- falling of consumption and pro- T AT Iduction that will invite depressio { “*This shifting sanctioned by the {Seventy-ninth and Eighticth Con- ! gresses has already reached danger- lous proportions. The decline in | corporation income tax collections yof from $155 billion in 1945 to $5.1 |billion in 1947 has been accom- {panied by steadily rising prices. rm mu,u, irom after t two suc killior * “The per cessive reductions in il infome tax which benefited those in the up- brackets also cbm- cut in corporation the proportion of secured from tax- ption.’” concluded his statement ing out that Mr. Elder says usually the substitute tax i not based on the ability more heavily on the chiefly per income ta ith the incre AX or a 2d locally- that provides in Alaska samc- ncourage nts, util- at had no nendations to make the planned tax ced and could be and umer Labor | he he on ity L 1 hi scive died by nuiss rentals for the month of January will be accepted at a disocunt. Al remittances must bear postmark of not later than discount date. Please be prompt. Enjoy real comfort TELE on a famous Princess Steamer WELCOME the Legislators and out of town visitors to the Salmon Creek Country Club. 86 3t | Whether the rising prices wefe or | were not stimulated by the cut in i To taxes is beside the point. The mLmt.:mt fact is that while tax- —_— Important Veeting of The URITED TROLELERS of ALASEKA FRIDAY KNIGHT Janmary 7th 230 p. m. C.1. 0. UNION HALL All Members Urged 1o Attend Finely-appointed “Princess” steamers offer unexcelled accommodation and temptfng meals for a restful, comlorte able trip south, JUNEAU SAILINGS SOUTHBOUND Wednesday, January 19 Wednesday, February 2 Sunday, February 13 For information and reservations contact H. H. DAVIES, Agent Preferred... for mellow moments ® Here is the beer for your taste —the smooth and mellow beer you’ll prefer for mellow moments. For 83 years, Hamm’s has been the first choice of millions. When you try Hamu’s, - you’ll know why so many prefer it to any other beer. THEG. MANM BREWING CO.. ST, PAUL, MINN. Smooth and Mellow Beer Distributed by ODOM COMPANY 363 Colman Building, Seattle Washington 1 would a moderate . After January 10, no telephone' k THE DAILY ALASKA EMPlRL _JUNEAU, ALASKA |AIR SAFETY RULES MAY BE CHANGED Plan to Increase Control Over Unscheduled Commercial Flying | By JAMES J. STREBIG | | { | i | WASHINGTON, Jan, 7—(P— Two chartered plane crashes cost- ing 45 liv within a week may | {bring g in air safety rules! desigz to increase control over | unscneduled commercial flying. | Both the Civil Aeronautics Board | (CAB) and the Civil Aeronautics | Administration (CAA) have been istudying safety regulation in non- | |';chcduled and charter flight opera- | iions. Revisions of rules to bring | {irregular flying under closer sup- e jon is part of the study. ? Both CAB and CAA officials sald | |tcday the two crashes, one in the ' Caribbean area and the other at Seattle, have focused attention on the need for action. The CAB, an independent agency, ! makes economic and safety rules | and sits as a court for violations. The CAA, a Commerce Department ; agency, certifies the fitness of pi- | lots ‘and aircraft, controls traffic | on airways and around alrports.| safety rules. ‘ However, in most circumstances | involving safety violations, the | caa's authority is not etfective un- il after the rule has been broken. It is difficult to prevent an ille- zal flight. Furthermore, the agen- | y has only a small policing force ! mpared with the size of the job, and the penalties it can impose are relatively minor. The mameum is $1,000 fine and revocation oi license. Scheduled airlines, under close safety supervision by the CAA, must conform to high standards of fit. ness. The large irregular carriers ' ome next in approach to maximum ,‘ tandards, but the nature of their operations does not call for the same around-the-clock checking. The smaller irregular and charl--‘ or air services are presently caus- | ing the most concern. In three crewmen, | and | passengers and seven compared with 83 passenger 14 crew fatalities on airlines, although the latter per- formed hundreds of times as much service. ] 1 i e | BIGBOMBER TO ALASKA FOR TESTS: WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—(®— The Air Force said today it will send one B-36, its largest type | bomber, to Alaska next week for | | several months of cold weather | tests. The B.-36 will go from Elgin Base, Fla, to Ladd Base, Fairbanks, Al- aska, flying non-stop. The Air Force said the trip will be a rou- tine one and no attempts will be made to set speed or distance rec- ords. No other B-36s are scheduled for lassxgnment in.the Alaskan area,” ‘the announcement said. Air Force officials explained this was just a testing of a single B- 36 in cold weather conditions and was not assignment of an airplane for tactical purposes. MOTORISTS WARNED: ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT TO GET 1949 LICENSES Only one week remains for Ju- neau motorists to take care of two important matters essential to driv- ing. “It will be embarrassing to both parties,” says Frank A. Metcalf Alaska Highway Patrol chief. “Our men do not enjoy making arrests any more than the violator enjoys being ‘picked up’. Already, there I teen a 15-day extension, but we just have to be firm after next week.” Police Chief Bernie Hulk is of the same mind, and says that license plates just have to te in place by January .15. Territorial driver’s licenses may be obtained at the Territorial Tax Collector’s office, and automobile li- cense plates are available at the City Hall. - e ONE SLIDE CLEARED ON THANE HIGHWAY | One slide, that nearest Juneau, on the Thane road has been clear- ed enough for traffic, according to Vance Blackwell of the Public Roads Administration, who expects the second one to be in shape for travel by tomorrow morning. A full crew has been working ‘dnys since the two slides Tuesday night, and a tractor with lights |nas worked through each night. i and acts as a policeman to enforce | ~ | has accidents last year they killed 74 |° scheduled | May Gam Eyes|ghl attle, Was for an operation which is hoped w Bette Jean (left) and Barbara Jo Their father, Walter A, Nord, a mother, Mr: , Transit System drivers have donated $3,700 to pay ill give sight to 28-month-cld twins, Nord (right) who were born blind. |, Ina Nord, are pwtured with the tw! ! | { ¥iy ik 1 Transit System driver, and their 1 Wirephoto. | ROCKET SHIP FLIES UNDER OWNPOWER W.‘\FHINGTON. January 7. The Air Force's “faster than s lane, the rocket-powered Bell X-1, ken off under its own power the first time, the Air Force =d today. plane reached an alti- tude 23,000 feet in one minute, 40 seconds, it was announced. This rate of climb ex s pre- vious records, but the Air Force id no official claim will be made. The flight took place at the Muroc Air Force base in California, nu- v 3. Capt. Charles E. Yeager, the pilot to exceed the spesd of sound in the plane, was at the controls. NEW OFFI(IAE. 5 INAMED, WAR WORK - WACHH\GTO\I Jnn uary The defense establishment chose the arm: ho for | discles: 2 v st toda; com- \\ \hat meame and s ons would win a future v The appointment of Lt. G Hull, present mn.nnmlo Army forces in the Pac'fic, to be director of the weapons sy: evaluation group was ani Defense Secretary For Later, said Forrestal, research director will te named to be the chief scientific officer of the sroup. It is made up of both mili- 2 tary and civillan experts. >, 60LD ROOM IS SCENE {OF ANB "HELLO PARTY" FOR LEGISLATORS TODAY A “hello party” to greet members of the legislature and their wives is being held in the Gold Room of the Baranof hotel late this after- noon, with Cyrus E. Peck, Sr., new- ly-elected grand president of the Alaska Native Brotherhood, as host. Present will be these members of the executive committee on which Past Grand Presidents serve for life: Cyril Zuboff, retired PGF, An- drew Hope, Frank G. Johnson, Roy Peratrovich, William Paul, Sr., and Lester Roberts, Grand Secretary of the organization. Honor guests at the party will be the legislators and government de- partment heads, and friends. R NO PAA PLANES FROM SEATTLE DURING TODAY There were no PAA planes sched- uled to leave Seattle today but ‘lanes are scheduled to operate to-; morrow, weather permitting, and 60 rassengers are booked for north- oung flights. If conditions do not permit of landing in Juneau, pas- sengers will be transferred at An- nette to Ellis planes and shuttled to Juneau. The Airport runways were report- ed in icy conditions and despite the great work of the CAA in grading, cutting ice down and then sanding, new snow obliterates all 2fforts for safe landing of the big PAA clip- pers. Officials are congratulating the PAA at the Airport for their, ceaseless work on the runways. - e, The first great popnluity of Rob- in Hood was in the ballads of the ‘“th and 16th centuries, a civilian |¢ MAUNA LOA ~ ERUPTING i N tion’s * results,” , Jan. T—(P— The| ig volecano of Mauna Loa erupted: '4uLX)“V late yesterday, and thres streams of molten lava are tlowing: n the slopes of the snow-capped' untain. The streams are esti- mated to be 12 to 15 miles long. | Air Force Captain Orval D. Col- lings of Los Angeles says if the lava' present pace and di- will reach the western ast of Hawail slightly north of; Keokea late today. Unless the flow is tlocked or s he highway alonz the coa: be \cut. Keokea is west of Mauna Lo atout miles southeast Captain Co Collings cano during bt flow acr HILO, Haw of the who flew over t vol- the night, the 2 ss the brmnnt white Was autiful spectacle. I o r Robert Fiaherty | V\hxdunnlan buzzed the | night fighter. F» saw aks of the main crat- |two new outbr out i DOFUN EUROPEAN HDUS. | HAUNTED, CLAIM GENE #P—One end of Uni*ed Nations European hendqum- ters building here is haunted. In mall room with heavy carpets t the library is the League ons museum, There are no rustling curtains, no But here, in the be- | the fading one Lold, now lie buried tion. A modest, almosi meager, display of t photographs and papers portrays birth, slow stran- gulation and death of the League jof Nations. Woodrow Wilson and Paul Boncour look down from their frames on the wall. There s Leon Blum, looking young and«active and Paul-Henri Saak looking still younger. Maxim Litvinoff, once the Soviet Union's foreign commissar,! now retired, shares a spot with frowning Gustav Streseman, Lord Halifax and Dino Grandi. One photograph shows Litvinoff talking over a table with the late Pierre Laval of France. Haille Se- lassie, looking frail and flustered, is shown during one of his visits to the league to plead for sanctions against Italy. There is a picture of | Benito Mussolini receiving the Jeague’s economic committee in 1927. One could not picture this man with Ithe jutting chin, the stern eyes and !folded arms hanging by his heels in front of an Italian gasoline sta- tion. In one glass case is the yellowed telegram protesting about troubles on the Greek-Bulgarian frontier in| 1925. There are still troubles there. e ——— Ausirian Schools Get U. S. Supplies VIENNA.—(®—Supplies and equip- ment valued at more than $20,000 have been purchased by American Army Headquarters here for Aus- trian scheols in the American oc- cupled zone. Purchases were made from a congressional appropriation for the rehabilitation of education in Austria. The equipment includes seven | film projectors, 15 sewing machines, 110 wood working and 10 metal-work- ing lathes, 97 desk and chair units, and 28 other types of classroom furniture. ! bountiful PRESIDENT DISPLAYS op_nmsm (Continued from Page One) Flexible Tax Policy The tax policy *“should be xible and should be promptly needs ol business and consumers”—an im- plied promise to lower rates again 1if a recession hits. Price ceilings, if they are in- d on key materials, will be ve end not the ‘“general or price control of the war- variety.” Private enterprise is the na- prime reliance “for economic aided by a ‘“vigorous gov- and the mutual respect 4. ernment {and trust that we all hold for one ancther.” Rent Contrcl Extension President demanded The rent centrol extension “for at least two years.” Today's legislative recom- mendations followed in the main his Wednesday program, with this additional tax proposal: me new excise taxes “may be desirable,” along with the rise in corporation, gift and estate levies and the possible boosts in middle and upper bracket income taxes. But the oleomargarine tax and ome others “should be repealed.” Material Allotment Mr. jof the law under which steel and ml:er scarce materials are allotted dustry agreement. But he added: “There is grave danger that the problems of acute /CONSTRUCTION MAN SURVEYING JUNEAU { { APARTMENT SITES Gerald Field, representative of the |Pacmc—Alaska Development Cor- | conducting a survey in to the con- poration, Juneau preliminary !struction of 100 apartment units. He has been inspecting possible build- ing sites and conferring with gov- ernment officials and private busi- niesmen on the project. The Pacific-Alaska Development Corperation, which was formed by a group of Scattle contractors and cusinessmen, has definitely decided to construct 600 apartment units in Ancrorage. For employees of the Alaska Railroad, 250 units will be constructed on Government Hill and 374 units will be put in at Fort Richardson. Field said that one- third of the apartments are expect- cd to be ready for occupancy by fall. In constructing the buildings, |the Corporation will utilize the credit facilities of Federal Law 608. Mr. Field said that his firm was not interested in the construction of emergency facilities but will kuild for permanent usage. At the prescnt time his company is con- |structing a largze apartment devel- Truman also asked extension | opment in the Laurelhurst District of Seattle. Field accompanied K. G. Kadow, Cirector of the Alaska Field Staff, to Juneau on Wednesday. If trans- pertation is available he will leave for Seattle tomorrow. RSSO RIS THREE ESIKMOS tu vital industries by voluntary in- ! shortage cannot be adequately met | by voluntary agreements. I there- | fore recommend that the use of | thorized . . . Mr. Truman opened his message n a note of high optimism. “The people of the United States have just enjoyed another year of prosperity,” he reported. But he soon moved on to,a warn- iing tone: “Let us all remember that our inparalleled prosperity has not been maintained by chance, and that we ,mandatory allocation powers be au- | lose it if WL leave the future |, to chance . . , The government’s firm commit- ment to an anti-inflationary policy €s “should not obscure the fact that |the government is equally comm: 2d to an anti-depression polic; . Truman said. M ‘Prendeni Nickel Plaie Road, Dies. CLEVELAND, Jfln. T.—P— John | Wysor Davin, 57, President of the | Iiickz] Plate Railroad, angd chair- rean of the board of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway, died today {in his home. ARE INDUCTEES AT FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 7—(® —The first Selective Service induc- tees at America’s farthest-north military outpost said today they were hoping for an ‘“‘overseas” as- signment—to the United States. The inductees totaled three—all Eskimos and all 25 years old. In. ducted at Ladd Field, they were sted as Woodrow Wilson of Kotze- bue, Edward Eelick of Igloo and Harding Black of Kiana. They will 0 to Fort Richardson tomorrow |and from there to Greely for basis | training. Ncne has ever been farther from the Seward Peninsula than the range of his fishing boat. R 1 TV " SHOOTING STAR JET PLANES IN RECORD FLIGHTS NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—#—Two air force pilots sped here today from | Chicago in Shooting Star jet planes in cne kour, 21 minutes and eight seconds, fastest trip ever made be- tween the two cities. the answer to wASH _”K_ Our delivery man takes over — giving you the day off. No more wash to hang up in the cold—iron- ing for hours until your back breaks. Send your laundry to us. We'll return it promptly — beauti- fully finished Call Juneau 15.