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EXTRA SESSION
HIGHLIGHTS
JUNEAU, April 2—At Monday
night session the Senate adopted,
by a vote of 14 to 2, dissenters be
ing Cochran and Rogge, the free
conference report on the veterans
bill, leaving the fate of the meas
ure in the lap of the House, which
must either reject or accept it on
Tuesday, the last day of the spe
cial session. Adoption carries a
gross sales tax for raising reven
ue. the House having excluded all
provisions for raising the fund.
The conference agreement sets the
fund at three quarters of a mil
lion. Other provisions include in
terim appointments to the veter
ans board to be made by the Gov
ernor with the consent of the
board of administration subject to
confirmation by the next succeed
ing legislature.
At a joint session the student or
personal loan was set at $2,500
ceiling on home and farm loans:
business loans at $10,000. All loans
fto bear four percent. Veterans re
ceiving bonus may receive loan by
returning bonus, which was set at
ten dollars for each month in serv
ice.
The Senate for the third time
slapped down the proposal for the
southern branch University of
Alaska by refusing to accept House
Bill 69.
Basic Science bill of the House
passed the Senate by a vote of 15
to 1, Cochran sole dissenter.
Among the important bills
passed by the House: appropriat
ing $20,000 for Alaska Aeronau
tics; to provide housing for
•World War II vets enrolled in ed
ucational institutions, but killed
the $50,000 appropriation for a
small boat harbor at Seldovia, also
$100,000 for a road between Nak
jiek and Hot Creek airport.
The Senate in the late afternoon
let down the bars and received
Senate measure to create an Alas
ka Transportation authority, as
sought in the letter from the Gov
ernor. In event a shipping crisis
develops it would empower au
thorities to issue bonds up to fif
teen million dollars to purchase
ships and dock facilities bill in
troduced by Coffey at the request
of Gruening was written by the
Department of Interior, perhaps
never to be used.
The Senate passed the motor
fuel tax bill.. Others important at
night session: prescribing the
qualifications of police officers in
cities of first class. Killed appro
priation for $125,000 for public
welfare. Passed raising the pay of
tfftislators from $15 to $22 a day.
JUNEAU, April 4—The extra
ordinary session of the seventeenth
lo5 Stranded As
Union DLspute
Uanrels Sailing
SEATTLE, Apr 3,—Saturday's
scheduled sailing of the SS. Aleu
tian, with 485 passengers for Alas
ka, was cancelled by Alaska
Steamship Company after a dis
pute with the Sailor’s Union of the
Pacific.
Cargo was discharged at Pier 50
and the vessel will be laid up in
Lake Union with the SS. Alaska
and SS. Northland, also strike
bound, company spokesmen said.
Charging that the Aleutian’s
chief mate “unjustifiably fired”
nine deck crew men, the union de
manded his removal before sign
ing on for the next trip North.
Lengthy port committee hearings
failed to bring agreement.
L. W. Baker, vice president and
genera] manager of the company,
declared the mate would not be
replaced.
"In other words," he said, "we
refuse to allow the union to select
his successor." Orders for the lay
up came from the War Shipping
Administration, he said.
Meanwhile, the passengers,
chiefiy cannery workers, were no
tified of the cancellation. Unless
other transportation can be ar
ranged next week, clam cannery
crews may have to be flown to
Alaska, an industry spokesman
said.
Next northbound sailings for
the three Seattle companies serv
ing Alaska, won't be until April
12, and all vessels are booked full,
‘‘with long waiting lists,” passen
ger agents reported yesterday.
The SS. Alaska and SS. North
land were tied up after controver
sies over crew quarters.
legislature adjourned Tues day
night, the House at 9:45 p.m., and
the Senate at 9:50 p.m., after pass
ing forty bills, six memorials and
five resolutions
The House, by a vote of 22 to 1,1
Gill dissenting, accepts the free
conference report on the veterans |
measure. The House by a vote of j
16 to 7, passes the resolution laud
ing Governor Gruening; voting
against the measure were Hoopes,
Johnson, Linck, Peterson, Shat
tuck, Vukovitch, and Walsh.
The shipping bill died in the
Senate. The House bill increasing
weekly unemployment compensa
tion benefits from $16 to $25, and
extending the payoff period from
16 to 25 weeks finally was passed
by the Senate, which also passed
the bill authorizing Territorial as
say offices to assay Alaska origin
ating ores free of charge for non
resident prospectors; also provid- '
ing potato grading rules.
Lulher Dunbar
Llerlrd Mayor
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In Ouirt Llrchon
Luther Dunbar, manager of the
Alaska Telephone and Telegraph
Company, and the Northern Light
and Power Company, won the
election for mayor of the City of
Nome, which was held yesterday,
April 2.
Dunbar held a fair lead over his
two opponents, Garnet Martin and
H. G. (Hank) Miller; ending in a
score of Dunbar 119, Martin 10(5.
and Miller 69.
In the race for City Council Hen
Young topped the list with 249
votes, Paul Mandeville with 174,
and Richard Webb with 163.
George Madsen was a close con
tender with 142 and John Olsen
trailed with 93
Ben Young, an ex-serviceman,
owns his delivery oil business, and
is doing remarkably well. Paul
Mandeville, an ex-serviceman,
owns and operates the Modern
Cleaners. Both Young and Mande
ville entered the service from
Nome.
Kichard Webb, local manager of
the Wien Alaska Airlines, has
been in Nome and surrounding
area for several years, and is ac
tive in all civic affairs.
For City Clerk. Carrie McLain
received 260 votes: for City At
torney, C. C. Tanner received 252;
and for City Treasurer, H. G. Ga
brielson received 251.
For member of the School
Board, Frank Love edged out Dor
othy Bender by a small margin,
159 to 120.
On the Ordinance, which was
submitted for ratification, “Or
dinance No. 311—Entitled: An Or
dinance vacating that portion of
Lane’s Way, south of Front Street,
as a street.” there were 163 votes
for ratification and 70 against rat
ification. The property will be
converted into a city lot.
Matanuska Spud
Dumping Feared
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ANCHORAGE, Apr. 3, (/P) —
Matanuska Valley farmers are
facing the loss of a large portion
of the 1945 potato crop because
hundreds of tons of Alaska spuds
will have to be “dumped in the
river” for lack of a market.
Marketing agents say there are
two major reasons for the surplus.
The crop was unusually good last
year and the sudden and unex
pected end of the war brought an
immediate reduction in the army
market. 1
I )ro|> KiTorts l or
Alaska Railroad
Ship (Operation
WASHINGTON, April 3. (/Pi
Delegate Bartlett abandoned ef
forts to get immediate action on
his bill to permit the Alaska Rail
road to operate ocean going ships
Objections of three Representa
tives blocked consideration of the
bill by the House Monday when it
came up on the consent calendar.
Under procedure objection by a
single member can block consider
ation, and since there had been
previous objections, the bill was!
stricken Tuesday from the consent
calendar.
Bartlett told a reporter he will
take no further steps to keep the
measure alive until after the Mar
itime commission concludes its
hearings next month on the appli
cation of the steamship lines op
erating in Alaska service for in
creased rates. He said he will de
cide then whether to ask the
House rules committee to author
ize a consideration of the bill by
the House.
Russian Troops
To Leave Iran
Within Month
NEW YORK. Apr. 3, (&)—Iran
offered to let the United Nations
security council shelve the Iranian
case temporarily, provided Russia
would give assurances that Rus
sian troops will be withdrawn
from the country unconditionally
by May 6.
The Council, having received
last minute replies from both Rus
sia and Iran to its inquiries of last
Friday, state that negotiations be
tween them have adjourned until
tomorrow. Russia said troop with
drawals from Iran were not condi
tional on other negotiations with
Iran over such matters as oil
Russian troops will be out of
the country within a month and a
half, the council was informed in
a message from Ambassador
Tromkyo, who however continued
his boycott of the Iranian discus
sion by not actually attending the
meeting.
Members generally agreed that
substantial progress had been
made and Russia had not been
snubbed by the council, but given
instead the main information it
wanted. Iran’s reply offered the
possible solution.
At least 220 distinct languages
are spoken in India, according to
the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
$ea<|tiuktks And
Tidal \\ avc\s (latise
Much Dama^r
HONOLULU, April 3, </P)—The
multimillion dollar debris of seis
mic wave ravaged Hilo yielded 7
more bodies as weary volunteers,
spurred by the threat of contagion
continued an unceasing search.
The earthquake born disturbance,
now subsided, took possibly 176
lives as it pounded shores from
the Aleutians to Hawaii, Califor
nia, Peru and Chile.
The Territorial toll is 79 dead
and and 35 missing, add to these
is the 10 presumed deaths in the
Aleutians, one each in California
and Peru. An estimated 4,000 Ha
waiians are homeless. The Terri
torial government of these hardest
hit islands is pushing a roundup
of 6,000 fresh diapers and huge
stocks of food for desolated Hilo,
elided the pledge of U. S. priori
ties in the vast rebuilding task
ahead.
The damage rose into millions
of dollars, but most of the insur
ance policies didn’t cover wave
destruction.
WASHINGTON, April 3. (m—
The Department ol Commerce de
clared its coast geodetic survey is
not properly equipped to “obtain
immediately” locations of earth
quakes in certain distant Pacific
areas. This includes the “troughs’*
south of the Aleutian islands. The
statement said seaquakes caused
Monday’s disastrous Pacific tidal
waves which centered south of
the Aleutians.
KODIAK. April 3, (/P)—Folks
here are able to joke about such
things as the matron who fled to
the hills with an armload of can
ned goods and no can opener, but
they all admitted they spent a jit
tery night awaiting the tidal wave
that never came.
One false alarm emptied the
city in ten minutes, but there was
no panic. Several families did
spend the night in the woody hills,
in a night club located on high
ground, on pews in the Baptist
Church.
The bay was calm all night, and
the tide was normal. About eight
a m., Capt. R. R. Lyons, Com
mander of the Naval operations
base here, announced all danger
from the tidal wave which wreak
ed havoc elsewhere in the Pacific
was past for Kodiak.
TACOMA DRUG MAN HERE
Paul Stockard, pharmaceutical
representative of the Tacoma
Drug Co., arrived from Fairbanks
on his first official visit to Nome.