Congress Gets 42
Alaska Bills; From
Roads To Raises
When the 80th Congress con-1
vened, the enabling measure to
bring statehood to Alaska was only
one of 42 bills affecting the Terri-'
tory which were introduced by
Delegate E. L. Bartlett.
Included among the legislation
concerning Alaska were the fol-'
lowing measures:
1. Extending the federal aid and
highway acts to Alaska.
2. Providing for the election of
the governor of the Territory by
the qualified voters of Alaska.
3. Granting priority to residents
of Alaska in employment in the
fisheries.
4. Provding that the governor of i
Alaska be a resident.
5. Authorizing residents of Alas
ka to vote upon attaining the age
k of 18 instead of 21.
6. Transferring the fisheries of
Alaska to the Teritory.
7. Extinguishing the Indian title
to lands in Alaska.
8. Providing for lifetime ap
pointment of judges of the district
court.
9. Authorizing the secretary of
the interior to construct and oper
ate a hospital for the insane of
Alaska to the Territory.
10. Providing increased retire
ment benefits of certain employ
ees of The Alaska Railroad, in
cluding retirement at the age of
55 after 30 years’ service.
11. Eliminating taxation of re
tirement funds of Alaska Railroad
employees.
12. Abolishing 80-rod shore
space reservations in the national
i forest land pertaining to tracts of
land acquired under use-permit
from the secretary of agiculture.
13. Enlarging the area for min
ing in the bays and on the shores of
navigable streams in Alaska.
14. Extending the farm credit
act to the Territory.
Several measures were intro
duced for the purpose of granting
public lands to various groups in
the Territory, namely, to the Cath
olic Church for use as a mission
in the Andreafsky River country;
to the Victory Bible camp ground
for use as a recreational camp at
Index lake; to the city of Fair
banks the site of the old detention
home for school purposes; and toj
the town of Petersburg part of1
block 90 for school purposes.
Among the bills are seven so
called private measures for the re
lief of various persons in Alaska
who are believed to have claims
against the federal government,
including a measure to return to
veterans of World War II travel
money expended to return home
upon their discharge.
otner measures sponsored by
Delegate Bartlett embrace bills to
forbid the seizure of boats, nets or
seines of residents of Alaska for
violation of rules and regulations
until after the arrest, trial and
conviction in tne Alaska courts of
the owner or operator; to make
workmen’s compensation laws of
the Territory applicable to land
and premises of the United States
in AiasKa; to provide that 37Vi
per cent of all money received
from rentals of public lands in
Alaska under the mineral leasing
law shall revert to Alaska for con
struction and maintenance of pub
lic roads or for the support of pub
lic schools; to authorize the Ex
port-Import Bank of Washington
to aiu in the financing and facili
tating of exports and imports and
the exchange of commodities be
tween the United States and its
Territories and insular posses
sions.
To extend certain acts to Alaska
so that the Extension Service and
the Experiment Stations in Alaska
may share in appropriations now
alloted the States; to allow em
ployees of the federal government
in Alaska to be transported on air
planes of the army transport serv
ice, one round trip each two-year
period of employment; to allow
Alaska to share in benefits of an
act providing for promotion of vo
cational rehabilitation of disabled
persons in Alaska; to increase the
compensation of Governors of
Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands to $15,000 a
year; to eliminate the require
ments of manifests and export
declarations by vessels engaged in
fisheries in Alaska; to extend the
Federal Declaratory Judgements
Act to Alaska; to grant issuance
of citizenship certificates to Met
lakatla Indians who were made
citizens by the act of 1934; and to
authorize the Secretary of Agri
culture to sell land formerly oc
cupied by the Alaska Agricultural
Experiment Station to the city of |
Sitka.
Durazzo ranks first among the
four posts on Albania’s coast.
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CHURCHES
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sunday Mass—9:00 a.m.
Weekday Mass—7:30 a.m.
Thursday Evening—7:45 p.m. Re
ligion discussion group.
LAVINIA WALLACE YOUNG
MISSION
Pastor - H. R. Amundsen
Deaconess - Dorothy M. Russell
Wednesday - 3:30 p.m. - Child
ren’s Miracle Book Club.
Thursday - 7:30 p.m. - Prayer
Meeting.
Sunday:
11:00 a.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Evening Service.
8:45 p.m. Young People’s Sing
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FEDERATED CHURCH
Murlin W. Day, Minister
Sunday, January 19, 1947
Church School, 10 a.m.
Worship, 7:45 p.m.—Sermon: “On
Choosing One’s God.”
Tuesday, 8 p.m. The Executive
Council of the Church will hold
a business session at the parson
age.
Wednesday. Choir rehearsal, 8 p.m.
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
Corner of Third and Division
Rev. Lewis I. Hudgins, Pastor
If people stop going to church,
soon there will be no church. THEN
WHAT?
10:00 a.m. Singspiration and Sun
day School Classes.
11:00 a.m. Morning Message.
7:30 p.m. Singspiration and
special music.
8:00 p.m. Evening Message.
Wednesday: 7:30 p.m. Melody and
Prayer.
Come and bring your Bible.
You are ever welcome to attend
these services.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Corner Front and Steadman
Geo. H. Loveless, Pastor
Sunday:
2:00 p.m. Sunday School.
7:30 p.m. Gospel Service.
Thursday:
3:30 p.m. “Vit-Em-In Childrens’!
Bible Club.”
Friday:
7:30 p.m. “Know Your Bible'
Class” Bible study in the book
of Exodus.
You are invited — Everyone is
welcome.
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PENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLY OF
GOD
Third Avenue West
Pastor A. E. Capener
Sunday
Sunday School.10:30 a.m.
Evening service .7:45 p.m.
Tuesday
Bible Study .7:45 p.m.
EVERYONE WELCOME
SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
NOT IMPEACHED
Only one justice of the United
State Supreme Court has ever
been impeached—and that one
was acquitted and resumed his
seat on the bench, according to the
Encyclopaedia. Articles of im
peachment were brought before
the Senate against Justice Samuel
Chase in 1804 because of his activ-'
ities in behalf of the Federalist j
Party. i
Arrest Two In
WAA Fraud
WASHINGTON, (/P)—FBI Di
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rector J. Edgar Hoover, announced >
today the arrest of a war assets!
administration official and an ex
convict on charges of fraud.
Hoover identified the men as;
George A. Gormley, an ex-convic!
and Louis V. Diooner, WAA expe- \
diter, and sa:d they “evolved a
scheme” to obtain textiles through
alteration of sales documents at a
sale conducted by the WAA in
Alexandria, Va. Both are residents
of Washington, D. C.
Hoover said both men are
charged with a violation of the
“fraud against the government
statute in that they caused a forge 1,
document to be presented to the
United States government.”
“The investigation thus far,”
Hoover said, “has resulted in the
recovery of textiles costing the
government $144,000. Th;s amount
of goods was seized in a New York
storage firm after being traced
from a terminal of a tucking
firm.”
Hoover’s announcement said the
two men reportedly met at a
Washington hotel bar last Novem
ber "and thereafter conceived a
plan which assured the delivery
to Gormley of more high-grade
woolen goods fom the government
warehouse than he had formerly
purchased and paid for” at the
Alexandria sale.
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As a service to veteran.-* in the
community, this newspaper will
publish a weekly column of news
briefs from the Veterans Admin
is ra ion. For more detailed infor
mation, vetearns should contact or
write to the nearest VA contact
unit at 46 and 47 P. O. Bldg., An
chorage.
Q. Are there any restrictions in
Government insurance on the type
of work I do?
A. No. The insured may engage
in any occupation, no matter how
hazardous, live where he likes,
and travel any way he chooses,
without affecting the value or cost
of his insurance policy.
Q. I am going to school under
the G. I. Bill. I find I am unable
i to keep up my assignments be
cause of failing eyesight. Will the
VA pay for a reader to assist me?
A. No. Veterans with visual im
pairment are eligible for reader
so*-vice only if they are enrolled
under the Vocational Rehabilita
tion Act (Public Law 16».
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For all have sinned, and come
short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:23.
Sin is an accomplished fact as to the entire race. God is
here looking back to Adam’s federal headship involving us all.
He looks at the race as fallen and lost and gone in their fed
eral head.
I John 1:8. If we say we have no sin, we deceive our
selves, and the truth is not in us. Sin means the corruption of
the old man and the stain created by actual sins flowing from
that old nature.
As a natural consequence all the race are falling short of
God’s glory. This falling short may mean to fail to earn God’s
holy praise. It may mean to come short because of the loss of
all spiritual strength through sin. It may mean guilty inab.lity
to stand before Him or His glorious holy presence.
We know that those now justified by faith in Christ "re
joice in hope of the glory of God,” meaning that state of being
glorified together with Christ, which is the high heavenly
hope of the Christian. It is in and through Christ alone that
sinners ruined in Adam, and daily falling short of the glory
of God, find redemption from sin’s guilt, and power.
NOME GOSPEL MISSION
of
Alaska Evangelization Society
Front Stroot and Steadman
Rot. Goo. H. Loveless. Pastor