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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-09-16
NEWS ITEMS FROM si1KA
lspecial Correspondencel


 SITKA, Alaska, Sept 13.-- The Council Chambers and railways were crowded Tuesday evening with interested sitka residents, in response to a special invitation is sued by Mayor Harry Hagen, to attend the meeting at which the first reading of Ordinance No. l2l would be heard
 i In the previous day the Mayor had published an open letter to 1 the public explaining the neec i for the proposed new tax ordin- ance: the jump in school costs from s13.O00 in l945 10 s29,oO0 this year; an expected deficit Of 1 from 20oo to s15,O0O for this years operation; the need of one central school building instead Of the present four costly and made quate buildings; the city's crying need for a hospital; the lack of funds for the average upkeep of the city and the impossibility of any improvement of harbor fac ilities, streets, etc, due to the drain on city revenues for the present school plant
 Following the reading Of the or ldinance, the public was called up- on to express it's views on the proposed two percent tax on all sales and services. Only person present who declared himself to re unequivocally opposed to the tax was Roland Peltier. stating that he appeared as a represen- tative of organized labor. All oth- CT speakers agreed that some form of new taxation was necessary and questioned only the flat rate. The discussion continued for almost two hours, maintaining throughout level of amiability, sincerity and iresonableness unusual in such gatherings
 ! Russ Clithero. owner-manager of the Sitka Hotel, questioned the lcitys right to force him to col lect tho tax from the customer ard was informed that the ordi- nance provided a penalty for fail- ure to do so, even though the : businessman preferred to pay the I tax himself.
 Mrs. Clarence Bands asked how @ tax on rents could be collected since OPA had ruled that the Veterans Tax could not be added to the price ceilings Clarence Bands, building contractor. sug- eosted that building materials be exempted from tax. stating that the two percent tax would mean an extra $500 to the price of
 S3,O0O house, thus discouraging the construction of new homes or business houses in Sitka
 After much discussion between the audience and councilmen, the audience seemed to agree almost unanimously that foods should be cut to one percent tax while all other items should be taxed at two or even three percent, mainly because the two percent tax would
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HOSPlIAL NOTES

Admitted to St. Ann's Hospital yesterday for medical attention were Mrs. c. R. Isaak and Lee Ann Satire. Admitted for surgical at tention were George Dudley and Lee Ellenwood.
 Discharged from the hospital yesterday were Mrs. Arnold Hil- dre. Felix Toner, William Nieder- hauser, and baby Virginia Hansey
 Admitted to the Government Hospital yesterday were Michael Sheppard and Bernadette Hunter of Topper Bay, Judith Baara ot Ketchikan, and Mary Kaneross oi Kalskag.
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Rodenberg who left with his fam fly this week for Ketchikan.
 Donald Mills will be winter watchman at Pyramid Fisheries this year, after a successful sum- mer as skipper of the newest cannery tender launched this sum mer.
 Susan Catherine, weighing i've pounds, fourteen ounces, was born to MT. and Mrs. Hugh Pace last Saturday evening. at the Salvation Army Home. Susan is the Pace third child.
 The Sitka Womans Club held its first annual meeting Friday eve ming. The officers were hosts at a buffet supper starting at 6:45 after which the business meeting was called.
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AT THE BARANOF

Dorothea M. Lyons and child of Anchorage are staying at the Bar anof Hotel Also from Anchorage is D. V. McGowen.
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192683 acres No sale of any of the foregoing tracts can be made for a considera- ton less than a minimum price of five dollars (S5.00) per acre. The foregoing tracts offered for sale comprise portions of the old townsite of Cinema, adjoining and neighboring tracts.
 Dated April IS, 1947
 CHARLES E. BUNNELL
 President, University of Alaska First publication, July %, 1947. Last publication, Sept. 30, l947.
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LOST-Last Thursday between
 Grade School and Belle's, Jade setting about size of dime. Slight ly oval shaped. Finder please call
 5O2 Baranof. Reward. 69O 2t
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put too great a financial strain on couples with large families to feed.
 As the argument thereon tend ed to circle round the question as to who is responsible for com munity's chilGrcn-the parents or childless couples Councilman Charteris, stating that on a s200 grocery bill, the difference between 9 one percent and two percent tax would be only two dollars which childless couples would e able to pay and couples with children Le glad to pay, moved that the ordinance be adopted as written, on the first reading. Coun- cilman Gilpatrick seconded. and in response to roll call the mo- ton carried unanimously.
 The audience, stunned at the councils action, following their in- yitation for an expression of sen timent which overwhelmingly fay ored a lower tax on foods, was hastily assured by the Mayor that the ordinance would be returned to committee for revisal before the next reading, The Mayor then called for a special meeting next Tuesday evening and asked the audience to return for the second reading of the ordinance.
 Dr. Isaac Kncll arrived in Sitka this week 10 establish @ private practice Dr. Knoll graduated from a medical school in Naples Italy, in 1885; took a post grad uate course in Bologna in 1886 on children's diseases; from there went to Honduras, South America, for research work in tropical dis eases and at the same time es- tablished private practice; en- tersd the United States in 1887 on a rotating internship at Unity Hospital, Brooklyn. followed with a medical residency in Bethel Hospital. Brooklyn; a residency in surgery at Bethany Deconen Hos pital, Brooklyn; a mixed residency in tuberculosis, surgery and neu- 1clogy at Montefiore Hospital in Bronx; was diognostician and ad- hitting physician at Gouverneur and Linden Hospital in New York was medical officer of the Port of Embarkation fer the War De- partment in Brooklyn: was medi- cal director and deputy superin- teneent of Fordham Hospital at Bronx.
 Dr Knoll came to Alaska to work for the Alaska Native Ser vice as Physician in charge of the Kanakanak Hospital at Dillingham; after which he was medical offi- cer at the Government Hospital in Juneau.
 In May of this year he took the Territorial Medical Examina- tion and received his Alaska li- cense; made a medical inyestiga- tion Of the hospital at Anchorage, Palmer and Wrangell-then ra- turned to Juneau He then went to New York for six week post graduate course in surgery at Gcuyerneur Hospital and the pur- chace of complete office equip ment to establish private prac- tice in Sitza.
 Dr. Knoll expressed pleasure at the warm reception he received on his arrival from 10th Dr. W. C..
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Mattresses and Fountain Girls wanted at Percy's Cafe. 665 If
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LOST AND FOUND

LADIES Gold Waltham Wrist
 watch with black wrist band. Reward. Douglas 322 81 St
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FOR SALE-65' deluxe yacht, new 1l5 h. p. Caterpillar diesel, teak decks, hot water heat, deep freeze unit, cleo winch, fully equipped, new linens, Flamo range; excellent condition. Write Box 562, Petersburg, Alaska.
 664 12t
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TIDE TABLE
SEPTEMRER IT

SEPTEMBER IT High tide :. 3:24 am, 18.1 feet [
 , Low tide m 9:26 am, -0.8 feet { High tide -.15.37 pm, 18.7 feet . Low tide 2l.53 pm, IA feet {
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TWO BEDROOM modern unfurn-
 ished house, 534 E. 5th St. Call Blue 297. 660-tf.
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COMBINATION register and ad- ding machine, 9 place keys ill perfect condition for bookkeep- ing. Phone 652 66l-tf
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COLONIAL Hotel, fully furnished On 2nd St. across from Baranof. Reasonably priced. Phone 187.
 623-ti
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APT. HOUSE, ten apts. Phone 428.
 618-ti
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FOR SALE-Three houses and lot houses in good condition and bes. location. Inquire Trevor Davis Box 576, Juneau. 472-t
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Rodenberg who left with his fam fly this week for Ketchikan.
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8o years at fine whiskey mokne makes fhis whiskey good s6 proof Blended Whiskey The sirogh whistles in this product years old 3o%o strosh whiskey
 7Oq gron neuiro spirits hirom Woker Sons no Peoro, Ill.,
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THREE DEUCES length 50 it
 ready for trolling or charter work
 Call Red 353. GOA -tf
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Jerry Bryant, president of Bry- ant Marine, Inc, of Seattle, ar rived cy plane from Wrangell Fri day on a business swing through the Territory While here he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Stock ton Webb aboard their pleasure cruiser, Romany III.
Evening star., 1947-11-11
.TWA Picks Three Winners
In Aviation WRITING Contest

Trans World Airline today an
nounced three local winners in it's
10th annual aviation writing and
Photographic competition among en-
trants throughout the Nation.
They are James j. Strebig, Silver
Spring, Md. aviation editor of the
Associated Press, who won first prize
of $3.50 in the open class newspaper
division; John H. Frederick, Ken
sington, Md, professor of transpor-
tation and foreign trade at the Uni
versity of Maryland, who took first
place in the magazine book division,
winning $3.50, and Eric Bramley.
alexandria, Va, who placed second
in the magazine book division, win
ing 500.
Mr.. Strebig was winner in the
open class newspaper division for the
third successive year, and was given
permanent possession of the TWA
Trophy he has held since 1914, Mr.,
Frederick also won a trophy and Mr..
Bramley received commemorative
plaque.
Evening star., 1947-11-11
TeIevision NewsreeI Unit
Put in Operation by AP
By the Associated Press


The first Associated Press televi-
sion newsreel unit began operating
today in Washington as a part OF
the regular news coverage by the
Washington Associated Press Bu-
reau.
This departure is being under
taken in conformity with a recent
decision by the Board of Directors.
1t is the first of several such units
which the Associated Press Is estab-
fishing to provide complete world
wide newsreel service for television
stations that are Associated Press
members.
Cameramen, editors and techni-
clans began coverage of the Wash
ington scene, which will be integrated
with films produced by participating
stations, just as news and news
photos now are exchanged among
member newspapers.
A London unit is being formed
and will be operating in time to
cover the wedding for Princess
Elizabeth, the meeting of the foreign
ministers in London. and subsequent
events in the United Kingdom.
Evening star., 1947-11-11
Rising Tax Receipts
Due 10 Offset Part
OF European Aid Cost
BY the Associated Press

A tax windfall resulting from
booming business is showing promise
of balancing off part of this years
added costs of aid to Europe.
Some Government analysts said
today receipts for the current fiscal
year ending next June 80 may top
the present budget estimate of SAL
700, 900, 600 by $4,000, 900, 900 if moth
ing happens to check the revenue
flow. Last years total was s43,-
20O.0Oo,O00.
Secretary of State Marshall yes
terday put at s2,597 900 600 the cost
of this country's stopgap and long
range assistance programs between
now and the end of the fiscal year
The Government analysts said
they see little or no threat on the
business horizon to continued high
tax revenues, but they added that
any tax cutting measure could up
set their new calculations.
Receipts Ahead of Predictions.
Revenue collections for the first
third of this fiscal year-the slackest
season OF the tax collection calendar
-belied Budget Bureau predictions
by running 5000, 900 900 ahead, in
stead of behind, the same period OF
last year.
They totaled sl2 1875 ,622 ,555 for the
July 1-October 81 period. individual
income taxes withheld from pay
checks brought In $3,319.4l7,114
nearly S500,000, 900 above the com.
parable period OF 1916.
Individual income tax payments
are expected to zoom even higher
when farmers, who are outside the
Withholding system. pay their taxes
on income helped to new records by
high prices.
High prices also have helped swell
corporate income taxes. These dur
ing, the July-October period played
the major role in boosting non
withholding collections to 81 $40 ,909,
AIS. That, however. was $500, ,O00, ,00O
under last year when some excess
profits taxes still were collected de-
Evening star., 1947-11-11

spite earlier repeal of the wartime
levy.
Other Collections Better.
Other tax collections, including
those from liquor and beer, tobacco.
amusements and various goods and
services, are doing little better
than last year AZ s2,786,4l7.5s2 for
the first four months.
Receipts the Government labels
as miscellaneous these range
from Panama Canal Zone tolls to a
return Of capital advanced to the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
more than doubled the SAIL 900 900
for the comparable period Of last
year. They stood at 1851, ,243. .433.
On the off-side, however. were
customs receipts. down more than
s144 ,079 .96l. and surplus property
sales, off some $l45, ,Ooo, 900 at $415.-
703,677.
Evening star., 1947-11-11
Woman and Guard Shot
In Bank Ho|dup Attempt
BY the Assoeioted Press

by me Assocsofeo Ffess.
CLEVELAND. Nov. 1l.-A rs
year-old woman secretary and a
uniformed guard, 6s. were shot and
wounded yesterday by one of a trio
of robbers attempting to hold up
the Warsaw Savings & Loan Asso-
ciation on Cleveland's East Side.
Police said no loot was obtained
as the robbers fed from the scene.
The wounded taken to St. Alexis
Hospital were:
Miss Irene M, Missall, secretary
to Michael Rutkowski, president of
the bank, wounded in the right
forearm, conditioned reported
good"
Edmund Sczyglinski. bank guard,
shot twice in the chest, condition
reported fair"
Witnesses told police two gun
men entered the bank, fired on
Mr.. Sczyglinski when he drew his
gun. They then fed, firing more
shots through the banks street
window as they joined an accom-
plice in a sedan and drove from
the scene
A single shot pierced the window
and struck Miss Missal AS she sat,
terrified, at her desk, employees said.
Evening star., 1947-11-11
Squirt in Coal Output Of Ruhr
Credited to Food Incentive Plan

ming of the year. 1t climbed to 23O, :
900 in March, but nose-dived during
a hunger strike in April and aver
aged only 100000 tons in May, June
and July.
Increase Continues.
The CARE parcel plan lifted it
to 24O,000 tons in September. 1t
touched 250,0O0 October % and has
continued to rise ever since.
Other factors in the production
situation, say officials, are a fairly
stable food situation, with normal
consumers getting from 100 to 1900
calories a day. including their full
bread ration, and an increase in the
number of miners.
Here again, however, the officials
point out, the Inventive plan again
plays a part, because 1t is the extra
food and clothing offers which have
been attracting the mlners-some of
whom are reported TO have come
over the border from the Russian
occupation zone.
Evening star., 1947-11-11
Puppies Offered as Prizes
In Bows Club Contest

Cocker spaniel puppies will be Of
fered as prizes and Christmas pres
ents in an essay contest opening to-
night at the six Metropolitan Police
Boys Clubs.
Open to all youngsters of the clubs
from 6 to IA years old, the contest
will begin tonight with the appear
ance of a cocker spaniel at Club
No. S, in the basement of the fifth
precinct, to perform tricks for the
boys.
The contest will consist of essays
of Is words or more on Why can
give a good home to cocker spaniel
puppy" The Capital City Cocker
Club, sponsors of the contest, will
visit all of the other clubs in the
next two weeks to exhibit the
trained cocker and give the boys
ideas for their essays.
Winners will receive their puppies
at the clubs Christmas parties.
Evening star., 1947-11-11
NAM Calls for PLEDGE
OF Free Enterprise
As Foreign Aid Rule
By the Associated Press

The National Association of Man
ufacturers today called on this coun-
try to SELL the free enterprise sys-
tenn along with foreign aid.
Among other things, the associa-
ton asked that countries receiving
United States aid pledge not to ma
tionalize their industries and re-
sources further, and not to under
take any projects which might i'm
pair private competitive enterprise.
Earl Bunting. president of the as
sociation, laid the associations posi-
ton before President Truman at a
White House conference. Il Later he
told reporters the President ex-
pressed interest in having the Or
ganization's viewpoint.
The NAM program calls for ad-
ministration of foreign aid by new
corporation-a sort of global RFC-
with a nonpartisan board of direc-
tors appointed by the President and
subject to Senate confirmation.
Mr.. Bunting and Curtis E. Calder,
board chairman of Electric Bond
and Share Co., told a news confer
ence that the free enterprise sys-
tenn makes 1t possible for this coun-
try to extend aid to needy nations,
and that they want this system
sold along with aid.
The associations program asks
that rations receiving aid show
progress toward modifying and
eventually eliminating" price con-
trols and other controls over their
internal production and distribution
of commodities, and take and en-
force adequate measures to insure
maximum domestic production" in
Guiding harder work and longer
working hours.
Evening star., 1947-11-11

problem of halting price initiation
which President Truman also listed
as an issue for the special session.
AS the lawmakers fiocked back to
Washington for the opening OF the
session Monday, Senator George,
Democrat, of Georgia served notice
he is against establishing a system
of ALLEGATION and priority at home.
Such controls have been widely dis
cussed as a means of preventing
foreign relief exports from placing
greater pressure on the price situa-
ton domestically.
House Hearing Tomorrow.
After Secretary Marshall an
swers all questions Of the Senate
committee today, he will 60 before
the House Foreign Affairs Commit
tee for examination tomorrow.
That committee had expected to
start its hearings today, but Repre-
sentative Herter, the first witness,
was not ready to proceed. The Her.
ter Committee is still working on
the final draft of its foreign-ai
report.
Speaking in New York last night,
Senator Taft, Republican, of Ohio
said the Marshall plan may be
worth the cost, but let's be realis-
tic and face the fact that there
is cost"
IF we want the Marshall plan
we cannot have lower prices Sen
ator Taft asserted. IF we want
lower prices, we have to give up
the Marshall plan"
Evening star., 1947-11-11
c. B. McMonus to Heed
Georgia Power Co.
az tha Assecinted Press

ATLANTA, Nov. lie. B. Nc
Manus, vice president and director
of operations of the Georgia Power
Co., was named president Of the
utility today. succeeding the late
Preston S. Arkwright, jr.
The Board of Directors named
Dan MacDougald, Atlanta attorney.
as it's chairman. and elected John
A. Sibley. president and chairman
of the Trust Co. of Georgia, to
membership.
Evening star., 1947-11-11
by the Associated Press

ESSEN, Germany, Nov. 1.-THE
Rhur's coal output, which climbed
feebly to an average of 100000 tons
per day in August, suddenly has
spurted to more than 274,000 tons
a day.
Both Allied and German officials
say this result has been accom-
plished by rewarding miners with
CARE food parcels and 10-in-1
packages containg food and clothing
materials.
The incentive plan was divided
into TWO parts:
First, CARE packages containing
10000 calories each were awarded to
miners whose mines over four
week period matched or exceeded
their best previous postwar output.
Every mine in the Ruhr succeeded
in doing this.
Next, the 10-in-1 packages were
offered to miners whose mines in
a continuous four-week period ex-
ceeded the best previous four-week
output by is per cent.
1t is this phase which is now in
operation, and miners in the Ruhr
are reported in happier frame OF
mind than at any time since the end
of the war as they WELD their picks
in an effort to win 10-in-1 package
before Christmas.
The results thus far have sur
prised even officials of the North
German Coal Control, which admin
listers the mines. At first skeptical
of mounting production figures
they called for a re-check and were
elated to find the figures accurate
They recalled that production was
only 190,912 tons daily at the begin
Evening star., 1947-11-11
Foreign Aid
I Continued From First Page)

Of America" radio programs beamed
abroad but he indicated he thought
the matter should be considered sep
arately from the $597 ,000, 900 interim
aid bill
He told Senator Hickenlooper. Re-
publican. of Iowa that speed of
execution" is the important thing in
the stop-gap aid program. He said
that he agreed with the Senator that
1t should be plain who Is sending
the help but he added:
Il don't want to poison the gift
by the method in which it is pre-
sented."
Russia Insisting on Trade.
Senators Vandenberg and Hicken-
looper brought out that the grain
Russia has agreed to export to
France will not be sent on credit
basis, but only in exchange for man
ufactured goods of comparable
value.
The State Departments counselor
Charles E. Bohlen, added that the
anticipated Russian shipments up tc
the end of January will be so small
that France must look elsewhere
for her bread
Chairman Vandenberg began the
discussion by asking If the State
Department could enlighten the
committee on Frances efforts to gel
wheat from the Soviet Union.
Mr.. Bohlen said France began
negotiations to try to get 500, ,00C
tons of wheat from Russia. He
said the Soviet Union replied that
up to August, 1948. it could ship
only 100000 tons of cereals Of which
only 100000 would be wheat, and
all shipments would have to be
conditioned on receipt from France
of manufactured goods in exchange
Are you telling us that Russia
Is offering this grain only In ex-
change for manufactured goods OF
comparable value?" asked Chairman
vandenberg.
According to our information,
that is correct Mr. Bohlen re-
piled.
Mr.. Bohlen went on to explain
that because Of the requirement fol
exchange of an equal value of man.
ufactured goods. France cannot hope
to get more than 10000 tons oi
grain from Russia by the end OF
January.
Lovett Gives Details.
The Senators asked Secretary
Marshall, to testify only on the
broad phases of the problem, AND
then called Mr.. Lovett and other
State Department officials to ex-
plain the details.
Before Gen. Marshall left the
stand, Senator Vandenberg sought
to bring out that one of the hopes
of the long-range European recov.
ery program is that 1t will brins
about the re-establishment of eco
nomic relations between Germany
and Western Europe.
Gen. Marshall agreed, but pointed
out that I'VE are up against the fears
of the people exaggerated by propa'
eanda, that we are rebuilding Ger.
many" so that it might again en-.
danger peace.
Senate Minority Leader Barkley
brought out that no responsible Off
cial of this Government has sale
anything to justify such propaganda
The Kentucky Senator said 1t IL
generally agreed that Germany can.
not be left as an economic vacuum
but said its restoration can be ac-
complished without creating any JUS
tifiable fear among the people OF
other European countries.
Gen. Marshall agreed and said
propaganda to the effect that Ger
many is to be restored, regardless OF