The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 13, 1950, Page 1

VOL. LXXV., NO. 11,631 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRI DAY, OCTOBER 13, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Big Conference Scheduled Saturday on Pacific DEMORATS GAINING IN HOUSE RACE | Each Party Now Holds .12 House Seats - Republi- c@ans Lead in Senate Mounting returns from Tuesday’s | election brought an increasingly | nip-and-tuck race between the Re- publicans and Democrats for con- trol of Alaska’s legislature. Late returns put Democrats into the lead for all seven of the Third Division’s seats in the House and for one additional seat in the First Division. It represented a gain of three since yesterday for the Democrats as they whittled away at the big over-all gains the Republicans scored in the Legislature on a Ter- ritory-wide basis. ‘The way the counting stood today, Republicans led for six Senate seats, ; the Democrats for two; the Repub- licans and D&mocrats were tied 12-12 in the House race. Some of the margins were so narrow, especially in the Second Di- vision (Nome and the Northwest) where the vote is small, that the standings might easily be upset. Returns received this morning from Mt. Edgecumbe and James- town Bay placed Democrats Andrew ; Hope of Sitka and Amelia Gunder- | sen in the running, dropping Marcus Jensen, Democrat of Douglas, back to 9th place and M. L. MacSpadden, | Republican of Juneau, to 10th place. | Gundersen, however, had a lead | of only seven votes over Jensen who, in turn, was only 20 ahead of | MacSpadden. . { Senate Race in First There was no change in the First Division Senate race. Engstrom, Re- publican, and Nolan, Democrat, are | running close together and nearly | a thousand votes ahead of Peratro- vich, Democrat. First Division precincts still un- reported are: Kake, Cape Fanshaw, Windham, Funter, Bell Island,| Myers Chuck, Kasaan, Point Baker, Goddard, Chichagoff, Kimshan, Elfin Cove, Port Alexander, Hyder, Klukwan and Yakutat Airport. Standings Today By divisions the standings today were: First: One Democrat and one Re- | publican Senator apparently elected. The Washingtor; Merry - Go-Round {Copyright. 1950. by Bell Syndicate, Inec.) By DREW PEARSON (Ed. Note—This is another of : Drew Pearson’s columns which | for the first time in history calls the roll of the Mafia, secret crime organization which controls the underworld in the United States.) ASHINGTON—Senator Kefau- ver's determination to investigate the Mafia requires a lot more cour- age than appears on the surface. Not only is it dangerous from the point of view of personal safety, but it is dangerous politically. For the Mafia has friends and protec- tors in very high places. President Truman had no idea| what was happening, and probably his naive military aide, Maj. Harry Vaughn, did not suspect it, but the Mafia was making a play for White House pull through the late Wil- liam Helis, close friend and part- 'ner of Frankie Costello. The Sen- ate expenditures committee was in the throes of unearthing real dyna- mite in regard to this during the; Maragon - Vaughn investigation, when Senator Hoey considerately | hushed the hearings up. How the Mafia pulls wires in high | places is illustrated by Syvestro Carolla, New Orleans hatchet man for Louisiana’s Mafia chief, Mar- cello, who helps operate Costello’s | gambling joints in and around New Orleans. Carolla’s son, Anthony, is married to Marcello’s niece, Maria Zaniatta, who came to the United States from Italy on a visitor's permit in 1947, but strangely has been allowed to remain here ever since. Obviously she could not have done so without political pull. Carolla was convicted in 1921 for bootlegging, and spent a year and a day in Atlanta; was sentenced again in 1931 to 24 months for vio- lating the narcotics laws; and in i houses. The more significant factor | Loussac (D) 2,068. | ) 990. Five Republicans and three Demo- crats leading for the House. Second: One Democrat and, one Republican leading for the two Senate seats. Three Republicans and one Democrat leading for the House. Third: Two Republican Senators elected on basis of unofficial re- turns. Solid Democratic delegation of seven leading for the House in the second straight election. Fourth: Two Republican Senators leading; four Republicans and one Democrat leading for the House. The races might easily end with the parties evenly divided in both then would be whether individuals hewed to party lines in their atti- tude toward Governor Gruening and administration policies. Although the Republicans are ! leading for six out of eight Senate | seats, the prospect of party control in the Senate is evenly balanced because the Democrats have a six out of eight edge on the holdover Senators who were elected in 1948 for four-year terms. Two Pull Ahead The Third Division Democrats who pulled ahead of the two Repub- licans who had been in the group of leaders for the seven seats were two cumbents Rep. Chester (Red) ‘Carlson, Cordova fisherman, and Dr. C. A. Pollard, dentist whose home is at Kasjlof. Both pulled up steadily on late returns after trail- ing earlier. If Carlson holds his spot among the top seven, it will be a triumph for a unique campaign policy: no campaigning; “If they want me they can vote for me.” Democratic Speaker of the House Stanley McCutcheon was another who was forging up on late returns. He had pulled up to second place among the Third Division candi- dates. Two Democratic incumbents in the House still trailed in the Fourth Division. Rep. Essie Dale was in eighth place for the five seats in the Fourth Division, and Rep. Frank Angerman was ninth. The following are the latest re- turns from the four divisions: First Division Forty-three out of 58 precincts: Senate: Nolan (D) 3736; Eng- strom (R), 3,607; Peratrovich (D), 2,857. House: Barnes (R) 3,658; Hen- drickson (R) 3,002; Locken (R), 2,872; Johnson (R) 2,851; MacKin- non (R) 2,838; Metcalfe (D) 2,788; Hope (D) 2,737; Gundersen (D) | 2713; Jensen (D) 2,706; MacSpad- | den (R) 2,686; Stewart (D) 2,596; Bartholomew (R) 2,376; Smith (D) 2,368; Peterson (R) 2,344; Coughlin (D) 2,190; Harris (D) 2,049. Secend Division Seven of 35 precincts: Senate: O'Leary (D) 405; Jones (R) 360; Ipalook (R) 352; Beltz (D) 296. House (4 to be elected): Laws (R) 427; Madsep (D) 398; Swanberg (R) 359; Reader (R) 355; Wells (D) 318; Bronson (R) 295; Degnan (D) 282; Edman (D) 268. Third Division Fifty of 70 precincts: Senate: Engebreth (R) 3288; Snider (R) 3271; Rivers (D) 2,562; House (7 to be elected) : Scavenius (D) 3,128; McCutcheon (D) 3,117; Egan (D) 3,102; Conright (D) 3,078; Kay (D) 3,076; Carlson (D) 2,789; Pollard (D) 2743; Gill (R) 2,658; Gorsuch (R) 2,589; Snodgrass (R) 2497; McKinley (R) 2446; Chase (R) 2,277; McClane (R) 2,096; Osbo (R) 1,983. Fourth Division Twenty-five of 70 precincts: Senate: Lhamon (R) 1507; Coble (R) 1,408; Lander (D) 1,084; Taylor (D) 999. House (5 to be elected) : Stepovich (R) 1749; Miscovich (R) 1491; Franklin (D) 1417; Gasser (R) 1,374; Wilbur (R) 1339; Joy (R) 1,235; Jones (D) 1212; Dale (D) 1,129; Angerman (D) 999; McCombe Territorial Offices One hundred nineteen out of 233 Alaska precincts: Delegate: Bartlett Peterson (R) 4,036. Treasurer: Roden (D) 11,796. Labot Commissioner: Benson (R) 8,004; Kimball (D) 6,153. STOCK QUOTATIONS (D), 10,735; quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 2%, American Can 1102%, Anaconda 35%, Curtiss- NEW YORK, Oct. 13 — Closing | w: UN GIVEN WARNING BY DULLES Must Strengthen Ifself or| Initiative for Peace Will Fall LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. U.S. Delegate John Foster Dulles warned today that the United Na- tions must strengthen itself or see the initiative for peace fall from its hands. Replying, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky accused the United States of pushing a policy of toughness toward Russia, which he said is failing. The two men wound up general debate in the U.N. Assembly’s po- | litical security. Dulles called for adoption of the plan. Vishinsky de- clared the American-backed resolu- tion is based on false premises and its motives ‘“aré false.” He said Russia is willing to go half-way in negotiations but will not accept dictation. The seven-power plan — which Acheson has explained grew out of the lessons of Korea—provides for emergency session of the General Assembly called on 24 hours notice, for peace patrols to report on acts of aggression and for the earmark- ing by member nations of military units to be placed at the disposal of the U.N. in time of crisis. Elsewhere in the U.N. the United States laid down a three-point blue- print today for Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur to rule North Korea until the U.N. Korean commission” and the Koreans can decide on estah- | lishing a unified country. It also calls for trials of war criminals, but no reprisals against North Korean soldiers or Com- munist party members in the north. The U.S. agreed with a recom- mendation made yesterday by the seven-nation commission, which would in effect limit the authority of President Syngman Rhee and the Republic of Korea to the south while the whole problem is being settled. That recommendation was cabled to MacArthur yesterday. HEALTH OFFICER 10 REOPEM FAIRBANKS SCHOOLS MONDAY FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 13— (M—Barring any new outbreaks of poliomyelitis, Fairbanks schools will reopen Monday. They've been closed since Sept. 29 when polio began to spread here. The announcement of the reopen- ing was made last night by Dr. ficer. Another Fairbanks child with a confirmed case of polio was admit- ted to a hospital Wednesday night, But Dr. Gorman said the case was completely isolated and no threat to the community. The four-year-cld youngster is a brother of a child described as “believed to be recovered from polio but not confirmed.” Both children were “baby sat” by a 12-year-old girl two days be- fore the baby sitter was stricken with polio about two weeks ago. She still is in an iron lung. TRON LUNG COMING SEATTLE, Oct. 13—/®—A second “jron lung” for treating infantile paralysis victims will be flown to Alaska today or tomororw, Pan American World Airways announces he’;'ehe second “lung,” & portable ined for Ketchikan. The type, is desti first one was taken to Fairbanks earlier this week. LOCAL REPORT Cases of pol\omyelitis in Anchor- age had risen to 14 today with the report that Raymond ‘Whitley, 12, as stricken with the disease yes- of the cases are in the city and five at Fort Richard- son, according to the report to the Alaska Department of Health head- terday. Nine Wright 9%, International Harvester 32, Kennecott 66, New York Central 117%, Northern Pacific 27%, U. 8. | Steel 40%, Pound $2.80 3-16. Sales today were 2,030,000 Averages today are as follows: in- s s it S A " (Continued o Page Four) dustrials 228,54, rails 69.67, utilities 140.54. quarters in Juneau. The only polio case reported in Juneau is that of a 4-year-old boy— shares. |oné so mild that young Michael ble to go home from according to Ricke will be al the hospital tomorrow, his physicidn. 13—P— | Robert P. Gorman, city health of- | SENATE COMMITTEE ON DEFENSE DUE IN ANCHORAGE SUNDAY Investigators Will Reach Juneau October 19 for Hearing Here WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 — » — | A group of Senators leaves tomorrow | for Alaska to inspect its defenses. | They are members of a subcom- mittee appointed by the Senate | Armed Forces Committee to inves- ;ngabe the nation’s defenses and war activities. The three subcommittee mem- bers going to Alaska will make the trip in the Sacred Cow, the plane often used by the late President Roosevelt. It will pick up Senator Salton- stall (R-Mass) at Joplin, Mo., to- RED SUPPLY LINES ARE BATTERED Big Guns of 37 UN. War- ships in Bombardment- May Mean New Landing (By the Associated Press) The big guns of 37 United Na- tions warships, led by the U.S. bat- tleship Missouri, poured shattering fire today into Communist supply lines from Soviet Siberia, and speculation persisted that another Allied landing operation was near. The Missouri, which fired 800,000 pounds of shells in less than an hour in the opening bombardment at Chongjin yesterday, swung south morrow and Senator Hunt (D-Wyo) at Cheyenne later in the day. At Portland, where the group will spend the night, it will be joined by Senator Morse (R-Ore). The party will arrive Sunday at Fort Rich- ardson, near Anchorage, Alaska. After inspecting defenses in the Anchorage area, the committee will go by train to Whittier and Seward fon Oct. 17. Next day it will hold public hearings in Nome, and go on to Fairbanks. { The party will go to Juneau on |Oct. 19 and hold a hearing there the next day. It will go to Ketchi~ {kan late that day and depart for | the states Oct. 21. Gov. Ernest Gruening plans to go to Anchorage Sunday to join the Senatorial group and return with them to Juneau late next week. SOVIET VETO OF TRYGVE LIE IS FOUGHT IN U. N. United Slat;and Friends Rally Behind Secrefary’s Reappointment LAKE SUCCESS, Oct. 13—#— The United States and its friends imlned behind Trygve Lie today in an effort to keep him as United { Nations Secretary General despite Russian opposlqon Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Jacob A. Malik yesterday used Russia’s 46th veto in the Security Council to block a second five-year term for the Norwegian diplomat as head of the world organization. Lie’s term expires Feb. 2, 1951. U.S. Representative Warren R. { Austin, as October President of the Council, sent a letter to Nasrollah Entezam of Iran, President of the veto-free General Assembly, saying that the Council had failed to agree on reelection. Most delegations here agreed that this left the problem up to the Assembly, although it was expected that the Russians would attempt to maintain that nothing could be done without their express consent. Austin, talking to reporters after ! i | | I said: . “There was never a moment of doubt in our (the American) posi- tion. We have been for Lie from the beginning. We consider him exceptionally gifted with extraor- dinary characteristics fitting him| for this job for which there is no precedent.” Shown a copy of Austin's re- {marks, Lie was very pleased. The Secretary General had been down- cast by the Soviet veto and worried that he had failed in his job. “May T take a copy of this home | to show Mrs. Lie?” he asked. | FROM VANCOUVER Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Heubcl o Vancouver, Wash., are stopuu at the Baranof Hotel. | STEAMER MOVEMENTS Freighter Chena due to arrive o/ 7 am. Saturday. | Freighter Sailor’s Splice sched-| uled to sail from Seattle today There will be no Saturday sailing| from Seattle. Denali to be decom-| missioned. 1 Princess Louise scheduled to 5ail| from Vancouver Wednesday, Octo- ber 18. | | i the secret session of the Council,| 100 miles today and battered the rail-highway town of Tanchon. De- stroyers and cruisers continued the battering of Chongjin and hit Songjin and Sangpo, nearby. Planes aided in the attacks. ‘Whether this was a prelude to a landing or a diversionary assault, the result was shattering for Red | supply lines along a 130-mile sea front. ’ ‘Warships Near Vladivostok The array of warships operating | off the Korean east coast, less than 120 miles from Soviet Vladivostok, was the largest yet assembled for operations in that area. The ships included the U. S. heavy cruisers Helena, Toledo and Rochester, the light cruiser Worcester, the U. 8. aircraft carriers Philippine Sea and Valley Forge, the British cruiser Ceylon, - the Australian destroyer Warramunga and other American, British, Canadian and Australian ships. g Port facilities, rail lines, bridges or anything else that might help the North lfprean army were the targets. “ On Fighting Front On the 130-mile ground fighting front, American spearheads within | 65 miles of Pyongyang, the Red capital, met fierce resistance from Communist troops. To the south, three U.8. First Cavalry Division columns, plus British and Austra- lian troops, moved from the south on Kumchon, 75 miles southeast of Pyongyang. Two other columns closed in from the east and west, trying to snap shut a trap on some 20,000 Reds in and south of Kum- chon. Red Pockets Wiped Out On the eastern end of the front in North Korea, South Korean troops pushed three miles north of captured Wonsan against light re- sistance, under heavy support from U.S. Air Force and Navy planes. Air and artillery fire concentrated on wiping out pockets of Reds. In the center of the front the| South Korean Eighth Division drove north of Pyonggang, 80 miles south- east of Pyongyang. U.N. forces captured more than 1400 Reds in 24 hours, bringing the total bag for the duration close to 60,000. WELFARE BOARD MEETS HERE OCT. 24, 25, 26 The Alaska Welfare Board will meet in Juneau Oct. 24, 25 and 26, Henry Harmon, director, said today. In addition to usual problems com- ing before the board other matters to be taken up include reports of the department, recent changes effected by the new social security amendment, 1951-53 budget and proposed changes in Alaska law. Board members are Fr. G. Edgar Gallant of Skagway, Mrs. Evange- line Atwood of Anchorage, Ivar Skarland of Fairbanks, and Mrs. Frances Longley of Nome. NATURE NOTE Blessing (?) both sides of Gas- | tineau Channel alike, Mother Na- ture has adorned the summit of Mount Jumbo (Douglas Island) with a light mantle of snow, match- ing the earlier-fallen crown on Mount Juneau. To. Federal Building employees, at least, the fact was considered newsworthy this morning. IRVING HERE | Wilbur Irving, proprietor of the! Whing Ding on the Douglas High- way, returned yesterday on a Pan American clipper from a business| To Meel meet in the Pacific this weekend. President Truman (left) and Gen. Douglas MacArthur (right) will ments have been completed for a conference of the Persident and the commander of the United Nations forces. They did not disclose whether it will be aboard a ship or at an istand. (P Wirephoto. in Pacific ‘White House sources said arrange- | Double Surprise Resulfs from Baby Shower STONEHAM, Mass., Oct. 13—{P— Friends of Mrs. Robert Conklin sur- prised her with a baby shower last night—then she surprised them. They had just presented their pretty gifts when Mrs. Conklin whispered to her husband: “Get a taxi, Robert, quick.” Within half an hour a baby boy was born to Mrs. Conklin at New England Sanitarium and Hospital— earlier than expected. STATEHOOD BILLS WILL PASS, VEEP SAYS IN SPOKANE SPOKANE, Wash,, Oct. 13—{®— Vice President Alben Barkley said last night he is “confident” Alaska and Hawaii will be grunted state- hood when Congress goes back to work next month. He gave that opinion at press conference shortly after he arrived in Spokane on a political tour of the region. The Vice-President said there is strong oppositioh to be overcome on statehood bills for the two Ter- ritories. He addedl that he is per- sonally confident action will come on them quickly after Congress goes into session and that approval will be given. From Bad fo Worsf; Just One Thing Affer Another, Then Some FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. (®—It was one of those chain re- action things, sb the sad story of Jack Courtney might as well start from the beginning. To enumerate: 1. He stopped his) jeep by an empty cabin about 47 miles from here on the Richardson highway. 2. He drained the watery gaso- line out of the jeep and put it into cans he found in the cabin. 3. He lighted a cigaret. 4. His gloves caught fire. where they ignited a small pool of spilled gasoline. 6. The gas'and glove flames spread to the tires of his jeep and set them afire. 7. Two Fairbanks firemen on their day off drove up, stopped, and pre- pared to launch into some off-duty fire-fighting. 8. One hopped into the jeep to drive it away from the house—then discovered the jeep was out of gas. 9. The other fireman dashed to his automobile to get a fire ex- tinguisher—and discovered he was out of fire extinguishers. 10. The flames meanwhile con- sumed the jeep, then devoured the cabin right down to the last log. 11. Courtney hitchhiked a ride back to town. AULDS GO OUTSIDE Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Auld, North- west Sales Co., representative, left Juneau this week for Seattle where they plan to make their home. They have lived here several years. Auld will continue to visit Alaska for his company but will make Seattle | trip to the states, his headquarters. 13— | 5. He tossed them to the ground cyyi) Aeronautics Administration. 11951 FISHING RULE T0 BE DISCUSSED AT TRUMAN IS ENROUTE T0 MacARTHUR ' | President FTy-iflg Over Pa- _ cific for Face-fo-Face Talk with General ENROUTE TO HAWAII WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN, Oct. 13— | | »—President Truman flew out over the Pacific toward Hawali in good weather today enroute to his mo- mentous conference with General MacArthur. The high strategy meeting this weekend on the Korean conflict and Asian Communism generally was expected to be somewhere beyond Honolulu. The site of their first face-to-face parley may be announced late to- day, Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross said. Presidential party members have been saying the meeting will be held at Wake Island. It will cover the final phases of United Nations MONDAY HEARING After a serles of meetings at which fishermen, canners and other interested parties have made re- commendations for 1951 commer- cial fishing regulations, the last Alaska hearing will be held Mon- day in Juneau. The meeting will be at 2 pm. in the Senate Chambers (Federal Building), conducted by Clarence J. Rhode, Alaska director of the U. 8. Fish and Wildlife Service. Rhode has just returned from Se- attle, where he conferred with the top FWS director, Alber! M. Day. Expected back Sunday are other FWS officials who have conducted tHis weyek's meetings. Traveling aboard the service vessel Brant, skippered by Jim Collins, they held meetings in Wrangell and Peters- burg previous to the one this morn- ing in Sitka. In the group are C. Howard Balt- zo, assistant Alaska director; Rich- ard Shuman, fisheries management supervisor, and Frank W. Hynes, as- sistant. 5 KILLED INCRASH OF PLANE ALMELUND, Minn, Oct. 13—(® —A Northwest Airlines Martin 2-0-2 passenger plane crashed on the out- | skirts of Almelund today, Killing five of the six persons aboard. The sixth passenger on the plane was seriously hurt. He was taken to the St. Croix hospital at St. Croix Falls, Wis. The plane narrowly missed al house in which there were four per- sons. Northwest Airlines said the plane was on a routine personnel check flight and the passengers were a check-pilot, an airline captain being given a Toutine six-month check, and four men connected with the The airline said the check pilot| killed was Raymond Francis Ren-| der, 34, Minneapolis, Minn. The | captain was John R. Galt, 37, St.| Paul. T A WATER POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD | Adjourning as a Board of Henlth; tomorrow morning, members will go into session as the Water Pollution | Control Board, it was announced today. | bpen hearings will be held tomor- row at 2 p.m. in the Territorial Office Building, as previously an- nounced, according to Dr. C. Earl| Albrecht, Commissioner of Health. | He said that hearings held at Juneau and Ketchikan will also be | reviewed. | The Alaska Board of Health has | been convening in annual session here for the past three days. actions in Korea, including recon- struction and rehabilitation of that war-torn country, and strategy to counter increasing Communist threats in the Far East, including the menace to Indo-China. Mr. Truman left on the Indepen- dence at 3:13 a.m. (EST) from Fair- fieldSuisun Air Force base, 60 miles east of San Francisco, after a brief conference with Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other members of his offfefal party. Visits Litter Cases The President devoted a good part of last evening to visiting litter cases. Approximately 100 had just arrived from the Korean fighting front at the air base hospital. Mr. Truman talked with each of the wounded men and signed short snorter bills, casts and other sou- venirs. “I was very much impressed by the wonderful morale of these boys,” the President was quoted by Ross. “When we have boys like these, then we don't have to worry much about the future of the country.” Mr. Truman is_due at Hickam Field, Honolulu, about 8:30 a.m. Hawallan Time (1:30 p.m. EST). He will remain there until about midnight; then will ledve on the last leg of his flight to meet Gen. MacArthur. Luncheon Guest In Honolulu, Mr. Truman will be the guest at a luncheon given by Admiral A, W. Radford, Com- mander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet. Mr. Truman’s first action upon arriving in California last night was to report his safe arrival to Mrs. ‘Truman by telephone. The President will be back in this area by Tuesday, to make a 'ma,lur foreign affairs speech in San Francisco at the Civic Opera House. It will be followed by a second, even more important, address be- fore the United Nations General Assembly in New York Oct. 24. ARRIVES AT HONOLULU HONOLULU, Oct. 13—(P—Presi- dent Truman flew here today en- route to a history-making one-day conference tomorrow with General MacArthur . The Presidential plane “Indepen- dence” landed at Hickam Field at 56 a.m. (9:56 am. PST) from the (Continued on Page Two) WEATHER REPORT Temperatures for 24-Piour Period ending 6:20 o'clock this morning In Juneau—Maximum, 47; minimum, 44. g At Airport—Maximum, 46; minimum, 44. FOREOCAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cloudy with occa- «sional light rain showers to- night and Saturday. Low temperature tonight near 42 and high Saturday near 48. L) . . . . . . * PRECIPITATION @ (Past 3¢ hours ending 7:30 a.m. today ® City of Juneau—0.20 inches; ® since October 1—3.68 inches; e since July 1—25.75 inches. . At Airport — 0.06 inches; e since October 1—1.15 inches; e since July 1—20.48 inches.