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The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-12-29
Federal Taxes
Cincinnati Enquirer

Of the several plans of income tax reduction heretofore proposed the one suggested by Rep Bert rand w Gearhart California Republican strikes us as the most ufeasible Representative Gearhart at tempts to be all things to all people-he would raise the basic exemptios so as free 20O00000 taxpayers from making any retl;rns paying any tax; he would scale down the large incomes from the top figure of 86 per to 50 per cent, and, to offset the sizable loss this would involve he would impose a straight 10 per cent manufacturers excise tax.
 Even if grant the desrability of income tax reduction quickly fiscal conditions permit this seems bad way to go about it. And while the Cali fornian professes to be thinking about the poor man" it's not evident that his scheme would help the pcor man Certainly if a hidden tax of 10 per cent is placed all manufactured articles it will place a decent standard of living just that much farther beyond the reach of the poor man. It would be directly inflaonary and brake upon production which in the end would hurt the wage earner much more than the weekly pay roll deduction.
 Furthermore We question the basic wisdom-from any except a strictly political yiewpoint-of excusing 2O0oO0O0 of the nations 48500000 taxpayers from any further with any Federal collections and ex- penoitures.
 When man-whether he's earning $175O or sl,75O a week makes out an income tax and sees certain part of his income going through the tax collectors window each week, it makes him realize that Con- gress and the Executive Department are spending his money in any appropriation that is made. But when he is not required to pay any withholding tax or make out tax return (even though he may continue to pay as much in hidden taXes) he is encouraged to feel that only the rich people need worry about the cost of government He becomes ready prey for the demagogue who proposes to pay $500 every Thursday to anybody 40 Liberality with other people, money is quite human failing.
 We may be wrong, but We think it makes for better. and certain frugal government if every earner of income pays at least little something and knows that he is paying ino the Federal Treas ury In that way and only in that way is the majority of the voting public likely to have an immediate per sonal interest in the fiscal policies of government.
 We don't think it's good government when the majority decides on the spending of money col lected only from a minority.
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gone out of it's way to special aid to Alaska which other area enjoys Yet the thanks the Maritime Commission gets consists of bitter attacks and charges of underhanded collision with shipping operators handed out by various Territorial and Federal officials.
 These officials have the opportunity to pursue another which will benefit all concerned They must admit by that they have accomplished nothing through the use of the tactics employed dur ing the past year. The rates remain the same and they are declared to be just and reasonable
 In the case of the protests concerning lighterage rates of greater interest elsewhere than in South east Alaska the Maritime Commission experts hold with Territorial officials that these rates too high and should be reduced all of the efforts expended along this line have not been in vain.
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NOTICE OF HEARING ON APPLE
 CATION TO SELL PROPERTY

 In the District Court for the Terri tory of Alaska, Division Number One, at Juneau.
 BANK OF WRANGELL, a corpora tion, Plaintiff, vs. ALASKA ASH ATTIC LUMBER MILLS, Inc, a corporation, Defendant.
 Application having been made by the Receiver for the Alaska Asiatie Lumber Nils. Inc, to sell the saw mill of said corporation at Wrangell, Alaska, together with all other prop erty rights, assets and credits thereof situate or having a situs in the Territory;
 NOTICE is hereby given that a hearing will be had upon said ap- plieation before the above-entitled Court at Juneau, Alaska. on the 18th day of January, 1948, at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon, at which time and place all persons interest ed in said property, rights, assets and credits may appear and show cause, if any they have, why the praye' of said application for the sale of the aforesaid property, free from all liens, should not be granted.
 o. F. OHLSON,
 Receiver. First publication, Dee. 8, 1947. Last publication, Dec. 29, 1947
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CHINESE PROBE

Members of the House Commit tee on Executive Expenditures are privately eyeing the big Chinese lobby that came close to writing Q S60,O0OOoO handout for the Chiang Kai-shek government into the Presidents bill fer emergency relief fer Europe. The lobby did succeed in snagging s1s000,000 for Chiana
 To date, the U. S. has given and lent the Chiang government over s5,0o0 Oo0,oC0
 The State Department estimates that there are 200 Chiang agents and propagandists now in the U. s. While Congress was considering the emergency relief bill, the cap ital literally swafmed with Chinese. At a Senate Appropriations Com nlittcc hearing, some 20 Chinese milled around the committees chamber
 Members ol the Expenditures Committee are very curious about how this Chiang lobby is financed Also, who organized it and who is running it Of particular interest to the congressman are the rabid pro Chiang activities of Henry Luce, a-conservative publisher of Time and Life magazines. Luce
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WHAT NOW?

An investigation by solicitor, an attorney and a rate analyst fer the IT. S. Maritime Commission into the existing rate structure of Alaska shipping oper- finds that the present rates neither unjust nor unreasonable"
 It is reasonable to believe that thorough in- vestigation has been conducted by experts who are competent judge the basis of profits operators whether not the shipping rates just unjust.
 Thus it becomes apparent that Territorial officials, who have been making great deal of noise about unfair rates have been cn the wrong track.
 For the study just completed also points out that the existing subsidy which enables the Alaskan operators to operate under present rates is not sub sdy in aid for furthering the development of the American merchant marine but is special subsidy and an exception in aid of the development of Alaska.
 The study further points out that the existing subsidy still is not large enough to bring about lowering of shipping rates to the point where they will encourage rather than retard the development of Alaska.
 This study opens the way clearly to the path our Territorial officials should follow and should have been following all along.
 If the present shipping rates are not unfair yet they are still high encourage Alaskas develop ment. the only answer is that Congress must grant a further subsidy in aid of Alaskas development so that existing rates may be lowered by this means.
 It seems to us that the Maritime Commission has
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in artiiicial-liinb development in
 he world is being done at this laboratory Richard Leonard, former auto-worker vice-president who was defeated by Reuther forces, is now working as a spot welder in the De Soto plant :. The august British Imperial War Museum rates the five best U. S. war histories of l947 as History of United States Naval Operations in World War IT," Our Vichy Gamble The Island War" Lucky Forwards" and Letter from Grosvenor Square" An interested observer at a street car collision the other day was form CT Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who will be 86 years old next spring.
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a~Sb-lll1lGA HUH aBN 0l4s arg he.d by the banns, insurance companies and corporations.
 The bankers contend that root cause ci imitation and high pri- ces is too much money Money ii circulation in the U s. today $ three times the amount in 1940 The bankers hold that the way to contract this tremendous volume Of Inensy is to tighten up on bank loans. And the most effective way to do that. they assert, is for the government to stop underpin- hing marketable government bonds and permit them to reach their natural level,
 In recent weeks, narKetaole government bends have evinced marked weakness. They have sold eff considerably from previous high prices. There is TO question that, if the Federal Reserve System withdrew it's support Of these bends they would nosediye.
 Administration financial leaders are dead set against the bankers demand Treasury Secretary Shy der and Federal Reserve Chair man Eccles are backing President Tlrman 100 percent in this op- position. Leading the bankers fieht are Stewart Baker, chairman, Cf the Bank of Manhattan Co.,, and sherman Badger, of the New En land Mutual Life Insurance Company.
 For the moment, this momentous battle is at q stalemate, but you will hear a lot more ahout it af- ter the first of the year
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HoRsE-RADISH SAUCE

AS Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee. Illinois Republican Senator Curly Brooks is also boss of the Senate restaurant. He takes this job seriously. Brooks keeps g hawks eye on menus. prices. and management policies.
 Riding to the Capitol on the Senate's miniature subway, Brooks was asked by Senator Brian Me Mahon eD-Conn), what was on the menu for lunch.
 You ought to know, Curly, leased McMahon. You're running that place
 T do know" replied Brooks ser icasly, eyeing his bulky colleague. We've got something today that's just what you ought to have. Lean beef with horse-rad-sh sauce
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Daily Lessons in English v v. L. GORDON

WORDS OFTEN MIsUsED: Do O say so" o believe that is TRUE"
 OFTEN MIsPRoNoUNCED: knowledge). silent.
 OFTEN MISSPEILED: BaptiZe; ZE Baptism; SIM
 industrious assiduous edulous, dlgent a three times and yours" Let vocabulary mastering word each day Today word
  TU in PICTURE first sylabe "Poshumous ishness when bequeathed by those alive would part with nohing.-Coton.
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NOTICE

The members of Juneau Pest No i, The American Legion, Depart ment of Alaska, at it's regular meet ing on January 26, 1948, will vote on a proposal to authorize the Le- zion Building Association to grant m easement over portion of Lot
 .. 3 in Block No. 4, approximately three feet by one hundred feet in dimension.
 First publication, Dec. 12, l947. Last publication, Jan. 16, 1948.
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MODERN ETIQUETTE og ngoerpr. FEB

a public place a mistake complain? necessary Merely call the walters
   O. pie, with a spoon? A the should be used a a it all allow her contribution? should her contribution
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recently employed William Bullitt, one time ardent pro-Soviet U. s. Ambassador to Russia. to write a vigorous defense of the Chiang government.
 Luce and Bullitt are advocating new $2,00o, 100000 loan to Chiang Kai-shek
 Another prominent figure being eyed by the House committee is Tommy Corcoran, onetime all-pow- crful New Deal brain -truster. Cor coran has long been an attorney fer T. V. Soong, multimillionaire brother -in-law of Chiang, Until recently, members of Corcoran's law finn were registered lobbyists for the Chang government.
 An open investigation of the Chiang lobby and it's U s. packers may be conducted by the commit tee next month. Committee mem bers are convinced it would prove very revealing. So are the White House and the State Department.
 Copyright, 1947, By The
 Bell Syndicate, Incl
 It will pay You to Snop Home
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Woman Suffrage
 For Switzerland

BERN, Switzerland --tRl- The Bern cantonal council has proposed woman suffrage in community af- fairs.
 So long as women do not have the right of suffrage in Switzer- land we have only half a demo- cracy," said the councils mem orandum.
 The cantcnal recommendation is that local authorities grant woman suffrage in local elections within a period of three months.
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AROUND THE CIRCUIT

Secretary Of the Army Ken meth Royall's long planned visit to the Walter Reed prosthetic labora- : tory scored a big hit with veteran amputees. Royall spent three hours visiting with the disabled veterans and going over the laboratory
 Some of the most advanced work
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TIDE TABLE
DECEMBER 30
NAZT GETS DEATH

WARSAW-lRl-A special court sentenced to death former German SS officer, Wilhelm Perl, accused of executing Poles during the Warsaw insurrection in 1944.
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LOOK and LEARN 9 |. GORDON

year by plane States? 9 What is the fundamental law of the United States? 3 percentage population lives in large  three animals elephant ivory  ADVISERS: 1
  
 Almost 48
 Wahus Hippopotamus, narwhal
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20 YEARS AGO fME TIT EMPIRE
DECEMBER 29, 1927

P Serbrowsky E, the Moscow Russia Mining the He expected to inspect the Alaska Gold Mine
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appearance Christmas held child given Claus Jackie Coogan danced for the chldrens enjoy did doll dance ana Anderson performed clog pupils of Dorothy
 through Juneau the Kodiak Island He had McCord also raised cattle on his island
 trip Seattle b Mozee passed through here Federal Bureau O Division of Alaska.
 of the States business the past weeks,
 aher.H High 1. low
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Schools replacing had resigned Miss Fisher graduate University had taught Kennewck Wash
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Weather: High, II; low, 5; cloudy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-08
81 Amputees
Certified by
VA as Eligible

Top priority TO handling last
minute applications for automo-
biles or other vehicles for ampu-
tee veterans before the July l
deadline has been granted by the
Veterans Administration.
OF the estimated 100 eligible
veterans in the 10 counties OF
South Florida, 81 have been GER
titled by the VA as eligible and
many other applications are being
processed, v. S. Parker, VA Mi
ami regional manager. stated to-
day.
Over 1850 of the estimated l.
800 eligible disabled veterans in
Florida, Georgia, Alabama, South
Carolina and Tennessee have
been approved under the program
for vehicles with special operat-
ing apparatus.
To be eligible for car under
the program, a veteran must have
lost the use of leg at or below
the ankle as the result OF service
in World War II.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-08
National Lines
Has Best Month
Since Organized

National Airlincs, Inc, carried
~orc messengers and flew more
revenue passenger miles in
March than during any other
month in its IL years Of opera
ton ~ Q scheduled air carrier,
4 was announced today by G.. T.
Baker. president, in reporting on
The performance traffic-wise of
his company for the first three
quarters of the current fiscal
year.
During March, Baker said,
National carried a total of 1892
passengers between the 20 points
from New York to Florida. New
Orleans and Havana, Cuba, serv-
Cd by It's fleet of as passengers
De- Buccaneer and Lockheed
Lodestsr transports.
This figure represents in
creases Of 1895 percent over the
S7.l73 passengers carried in Feb
rusry and 68.55 percent over the
1915 carried in March, 1916.
The new monthly high Of l8.782,-
- Revenues k6o1asoe miles
flown In March. lo47. is . jump
u 323.i0 percent over March,
1919.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-08
Veteran Offirers
Resign Irsss Navy

Two veteran kssy ssfe*ts
have resigned fwsn tts asxxs*
and are lcsving fss tisss issfsss
tomorrow. They ATE;
Ia. q. e. Grant. dsstssssAna e.
ficcr of she D. ~ Naval Aas~~s
rin~ nnsr. WIN h ressxnsuk Efssf
more thsn ~ years IN n. 49,
scrvisc. llc has s~s dssss "a 90
CT the~ters AZ she lsss wsg. N
cluding Afsies. Asa sssd sim
South Aslsnasr. CREST n mnmAa
to spend slpus . usnfh's yafe
sion with MS dssxisssF ~ "a
in-lnw Il c.se.sa. n a.
Il. Psui ns&mt. ssss@tmns ~
the supviv stfses .f sh~ N@sd
Submarine nsse. vh. ssxswsm u
TER - years in the sxxwe 90.
too. has se~n zrrvss IN Arise
and shc Psrifie.
L. noGoss lives "a i.assk Ess.k.
Arb. and rrsensls Fsxssxsa
word that his hosae "a tis~s F.sms
was ncsriy destsosea ~ : 80.
nsdo. lis ~ili s~ssxs - fsssA
nock and mske 40 hm mssssa
Sheve % ts his futoss.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-08
Garrison Blight Developments Ursed
At Once; Minimum Cost $16eoo'
Maximum, $7oo,OOO Engineers Say

The City Commission was
presented with the deed to Gar
.rison Blight Tuesday night by
City Manager O. J. S. Ellingson,
who added significantly that
there are no strings attached,
except for some mineral rights.
AT the same time Ellingson turn-
ed over to the Commission pre-
lllninary report on possible de-
velopment of the blight, submit
ted to him by R. G. Spalding and
Associates, engineers. M
The engineers estimate total
cost Of development at 100000
but recommend that the work be
done in steps, preferably with
the initial step costing about
$265, 900. The most that should
be attempted now, the report
says, is a $475, 900 development.
This calls for increasing the
depth from the present two feet
to seven feet over the entire
area Of the basin, which extends
about 400 by 100 feet.
A large L-shaped pier at the
foot of Bertha street extended is
recommended. II would be Of the
filled type, with. an approach 400
feet long and $50 feet wide. In
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-08

the center Of The pier woNld ~
room for a building sbOue -
feet long and 100 feet wide.
As an alternative to this Issue-
scale development. the drcdgime
would be accompanied oaly ~
q smaller, auxiliary pier III
Roosevelt Boulverad. The 49,
proach would be about - leet
long and 40 feet wide. thus q.
fording room for cars and pedcs-
TRANS. The pier proper would b.
about $50 feet long and 100 feet
wide with an asphalt service and
parking. space. A building shout
rs feet Tong could be buih IN
center. with an outdoor dance
floor nearby.
The engineers also recon-
mended a canal across the island
to the blight from the south. They
explained that this enables
yachts to reach the FISHING
grounds quickly and would also
relieve high water pressure from
the south side Of the island dur.
ing severe storms.
An early start on the minimum
plan was recommended. The en-
gineers' report with . sketch has
been posted in the City Hall. Ihc
city manager has other sketches.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-08
REP. C. A. SMATHERS
FAVORS RETENTION OF
U.s.. MARINE CORPS
Organized 10 Years, and
Snlathcrs Is For ''Spell-
ing OUT Its Name After
Army.Navy Merger
WASHINGTON 81 III Max

WASHINGTON, ,. c., May 8.
-(WNS)-Representative George
A .Smathers of Florida is hope
full that in the Army and Navy
merger bill the functions of the
United States Marines will be
spelled out" he said today.
Representative Smathers does
not want the Marines to be ''lost
in the shuttle"
Representative Snathers said
he had noted that the Japanese
in the Pcleliu Islands had re-
Gently surrendered to the United
States Marines.
I'VE have always known that
the. Marines were the J, first to
fight, but this issevidence they. are
also. the INST 10 fight the Rep
resantative said. For ITO years
they have rendered distinguish
ed service to this country. and
have proved to be an effective
and efficient fighting unit, even
though small in numbers.
"Thc Congress is getting ready
to consider the merger bill. II
is the hope Of all marines, their
friends, and, / believe, the pub
lie generally, that in that merg-
or bill the functions Of the u. S.
Marine Corps will be spelled out.
Because it is such a small organi-
cation there is a great POSSIBLE
ity that in the merger bill they
are liable to get lost in the shut
file, and we do not want that to
happen"
Representative Smathers is a
former member of the u. S. Ma
rine Corps, and was discharged
in 1915.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-05-08
Comptroller Gay
Gives Breakdown
Of States Funds
Especial to rhe Cst,.-.,

TALLAHASSEE, Fla, May 8.
A sinplified report on state
finance. giving detailed an
alysis of all state receipts, expen-
ditures and investments, for the
last fiscal year, has been released
by Comptroller Clarence M. Gay.
Realizing the public desired a
clear picture of the state finan-
cial set-up, the comptroller
made a breakdown Of state reve-
nue. from all sources, and then
gave a simplified list of exact.
. " how the money was spent.
/ During the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1916, the state received
total of $156,677,224 from all
sources, while expenditures, in
Guiding general operating ex-
penscs, aid to counties from gas
tax receipts, racing funds and
teachers salary funds totaled
$l24, 1914, 469. leaving ,balance
of $17,244,l30 in unallocatct!
revenue funds. The rest was
earmarked for specific purposes.
i, The seven cents per gallon
gasoline tax was the states
greatest, tax source of revenue
for the year, netting $3l,794,622.
Beverage taxes yielded $22,780,-
2l3, while occupational license
taxes brought in another $l6,-
234,219.
. More money was spent on pub
lie welfare during the year than
for any other activity of the
state government, $24,728,844 go
ing to the aged, dependent chill
3dren, blind and other needy per-
sons.
General operating expenses to-
tailed 500, 108,718, but the state
paid out an additional $35, $780,
DOG in gasoline, racing and auto
mobile transportation milage
taxes and in teacher salary and
|ischool foundation program funds.
At the end of the fiscal year,
$22, 438,717 in state funds were
invested, including $10,000,00O
|for the road department. S.
s257,727 for the school fund and
81, 455,O for the teachers re-
tirement system.
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Powells Transfer
Arnold Homestead,
Land for $l6,5W

A total Of five lots. on which
is located the old homestead 81
Gus Arnold and once occupied
by William NJ. Arnold and fam.
lily, were transferred from jamie
M. Powell and husband, Jeffer-
son. Ala, to Attilio M. Mills, Sa-
vannah, Ca, for $l6,5O0. accord.
ing to q warranty deed filed
yesterday with County Court
Clerk Ross c. Sawyer.
Three OF the lots are at the cor
ner of United and Margaret
streets, and two of them at the
intersection Of United and Pack
err streets.
Other warranty deeds filed
yesterday transferred the follow
ing properties:
From w. A. Parrish and wife
for $1,000, to J. II. Marley and
George w. Goodson, two lots at
Marathon.
From r. Jenkins Curry for
$500 to John F. Lowe, a lot on
Key Largo.
From Dan J. Malloy and vile,
Philadelphia, Pa, to Sidney "A.
Curry and wife, hob Polnciana
Extension, two lots at 10th street
and Flagler avenue, for S6OO.
From Albert E. Pierce, Jr., and
wife, to Irving D. Scott and
wife, two lots, one in johnson
street and the other in Georgia
street, for $1,000.
From Louis W. Louden and
others to Lorena Powers. Manu.
about $50 acres Of land on the
mainland, for $2,4OO. :
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Posting Plaques
in Navy Building

Plaques containing the names
'of the various commanding Off
GERS of Key West Naval Base, the
us. Naval Submarine Base and
the old Naval Station were being
placed today in the lobby of the
Naval administration building at
the Submarine Base.
The three plaques are being
placed with the commanding Of
ficers of the Key West Naval
Base in the predominant posi-
ton.