Gov. Gruening
Against Raises In
Steamship Rates
(Continued from Page One)
creases in wages and salaries
would be instantly demanded, «nd '
failure to secure them would
cause a general exodus from the
Territory.
In past years I have proposed
to the Territorial Legislature cer
tain changes in our tax system to
raise more revenue by trying to
reach the considerable numbers
of businesses, groups and individ
uals now virtually untaxed by the
Territory, of which the steamship'
companies incidentally are out
standing examples, since they pay
no Territorial tax whatsoever. The
► result of such tax measures, if!
adopted, would have been to sup
ply the Territory with funds for
roads, airports, schools, hospitals,
and for projects and services gen
erally beneficial to Alaska, which
in turn would have built up its i
economy. But no taxes ever pro
posed would have added up to
anything approaching so stagger
ing a total as this prospective levy
which would be handed to three
Seattle steamship companies, and
none of the benefits of which
would be left in the Territory.
Every cent of this increase—
amounting annually to three times
our Territorial budget—will go to
absentee business enterprises and
non-resident employees.
In 1939, the Alaska Legislautre
adopted a memorial protesting
high freight rates, and asked for
•an investigation and relief, and
which was promised for the sum
mer of 1940. Even after this in
vestigation of existing high freight
rates had been authorized the
steamship companies raised their
rates another fifteen percent in
the spring of 1940.
The commission’s investigators
Gen. Eisenhower
Lands In Boston
BOSTON, Nov. 12— (JP) —Gen. j
Eisenhower landed here enroute j
ot Washington where he will tes-1
tify on proposals for the unifica- j
tion of the armed services. He was !
a guest for the day for Boston’s
Armistice Day celebration.
Authoritative sources in Wash- j
ington predicted his trip was a
possible prelude to an assignment
to succeed General Marshal as
Army Chief of Staff, possibly late
next month.
EDGAR TWEET RETURNS
TO TELLER
Edgar Tweet, of the North Star
Mercantile Co., of Teller, who has
been in town for several days on
business returned home over the
i week end. The North Star Mar
| cantile Co. had the misfortune to
lose its winter supply of ammuni
tion, and some coal, when a barge
capsized while unloading.
came to Alaska, made a thorough
study and not only reported vig
orously against the increases but
condemned some of the steamship
companies practices. Nevertheless
out of the commission came an
order approving virtually every
thing the companies had asked or
were doing.
In any event it is certainly not
possible for the people of Alaska
to prepare themselves in two
weeks to make an effective and
successful fight against this at
tempt to deliver a mortal blow to
the Territory.
I therefore request the people
of Alaska to join in protest to the
U.S. Maritime Commission against
the unwarranted and unjustified
haste in ordering this hearing. I
believe it should be postponed for
at least six months, and that we
should meanwhile seek a Con
gi’essional investigation of the
whole situation.
NEVADA BAR
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EVERY DOG
HAS HIS DYE
By BOB THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD — It’s an undis
puted fact that if you hang around
Hollywood long enough you’ll see \
everything. Where else would you
find a girl who
dyes her dog to
match her
; clothes?
The girl with
the colored ca
i nine is Jean
Porter, the
pretty little
MGM actress.
She says the
dog, a Maltese
{ poodle named
I Cuddles, en
joys being col
ored.
I use vege
table coloring
which is per
fectly harmless
and she really
loves it,” Jean
said. “She
knows it when
she is colored
and struts all
over showing
off. Pink is her
favorite.”
Mind you,
this is no Hol
lywood affecta-1
tion. It started
several years
Jean Porter
ago when Jean
was a girl in Big Spring, Texas.
“I don’t know what gave me
the idea. Maybe it was because I
had a lot of colored pottery ani
mals and I wanted our poodle to
look like them. One day while the
folks were away I dipped the dog
in a tub of vegetable coloring.”
Jean says she colors her dog
about every two weeks. I asked if
she (Jean) would then have to;
wear the same color for two
weeks.
“If I were going out with the!
dog, I would either have to wear
the same color or a contrasting I
color.”
For obvious reasons, Miss Por-*
ter has no plaids in her wardrobe.
It is a matter of record,” said
[a nearby press agent, “that Miss
Porter converted three men to Al
coholics Anonymous when she
walked down Vine Street with i
her green dog.”
“Please,” Jean said, “it was I
chartreuse.”
Despite the dog-dyeing idiosyn
crasy, Jean is a very level-headed
girl who has raised herself to near
stardom through sheer determin
ation.
That work has been going on
since the age of three and Jean is
now barely out of her teens. The
years in between included many
seasons of vaudeville, radio, movie
westerns and haunting the casting
offices.
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