Alaska Steamship
Service Legislation
Introduced
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commerce committee.
The House committee will hop
hearings of the measure tomor
row, Jackson said, under a pla:
for a House vote next week.
The legislation, a point Congres
sional resolution, would authorize
the commission to enter into aeon
tract with American citizens qual
ified to provide the necessary serv
ice to the Territory. The commis
sion would make available govern
ment owned vessels at nominal
charter hire with the government
furnishing the marine insurance
The operators would be required
to furnish such services as the
commission may direct to secure
the most economical operation.
The measure provides that th; i
operators must apply income to
the expenses of operation.
If there are profits the operators
will be allowed an amount equal
to 10 per cent of their investc
capital before taxes, which Jack
son said would amount to six per
cent alter taxes. All profits abov ■
1 ' per cent would go to the com
mission and for insurance costs.
ihe measure will permit sue:
operation until not later than June
30, 1948, to provide interim serv
ice i/ntil Congress can work out ^ ;
permanent plan for steamship i
service to the Territory.
The resolution makes no men
tion of rates. Jackson said legisla
tion on rates could not be enacted
as rate-fixing is a commission
duty. He said he expected that
there would be “some adjust
ments’’ but added he did not know
what the commission planned.
Alaskans have notified the com
mission that they will oppose any
increase.
Jackson said that under the
agreement if there is loss in oper
ating the service it will have to
be shouldered by the operators,
adding there was a S4,500,000 loss
to the government last year.
LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
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Solomon and Council. Also a me
morial to construct a combined
court house and federal jail at
Valdez.
The House also passes the fol
lowing bills on marriage ceremon
ies, legitimation of births of chil
dren by subsequent marriage , to
amend the law relating to costs oi
disbursements in civil actions,
calling bills service contracts and
purchases requiring enrichment o
flour and bread and thus prevent
the shipment of an inferio gade of
flour into the Territory. Passed the
Senate bill for school age.
Tiie Senate spent Tuesday after
noon discussing the f sh trap ref
erendum and listened to \V. C. Ar
nold, managing director of the
Alaska Salmon Industry, Alfred
Owen and Frank Marshall, both
commercial fishermen. T h e n
parsed an amendment extending
me proposed fish trap abolishment
lrorn five to ten years.
The legislature will take a hol
iday on Lincoln’s Birthday.
Development
Board Bill To Be
Heard Thursday
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budget.
Cochran’s amendment to the bil
providing for referendum on fish
trap abolition changes time from
five to ten years in which to ac
complish the abolition. Character
ized by Arnold, canned salmon in
dustry lobbyist, as twice as good
as it was but still a very bad bill
and says industry will fight aboli
tion in Congress, even if referen
dum passes. Amendment vigor
ously opposed by labor leaders and
fishermen, but passed ten to six.
Bill will be voted on Thursday.
Ox-hair is used in plaster as a
binding medium.
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GOP Accused
Of Endangering
U. S. Security
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ing that he had abstained from the
ballot. The vote followed a hurried
trip to Capitol Hill late yesterday
by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower to
plead against any impairment of
funds for the nation’s fighting
forces.
Saying the committee action ap
peared to him to be one of "the
same mistakes we made after the
first world war,” Gurney added:
“We just got through spending
$300,000,000,000 to win the war,
and it looks like we could spend a
few dimes now to win the peace.”
Gurney’s counterpart on the
other side of the Capitol, chairman
Andrews (R.-N. Yd, of the House
armed services committee, also de
nounced the budget slash, assert
ing to newsmen:
“I am sure the majority of
Americans, realizing the thing we
want most is peace, are willing to
forego a great decrease in taxation
at this time to assure that peace.”
The issue goes to a vote before
tiie full 102-member budget com
I mittee Friday in what may be
one of the hottest fiscal battles in
history.
Senator O’Mahoney »D.-Wyo.», a
member of the Senate-House
group, suggested that plans for the
closed door session be revised u
throw the meeting open “so tha.
the people can know what is going
on.”
Rep. Mahon (D.-Tex.), a mem
ber of the subcommittee, contend
ed that “some Republicans are
playing fast and loose with nation
al security in order to deliver on
their promises to cut taxes."
Rep. Taber <R.-N. Y.), chairman
of the budgetary group, said "We
have no desire to hamstring the
army and navy.”
Chairman Bridges <R.-N. H.>, o'
the Senate appropriations commit
tee who offered the motion to cut
$6,000,000,000 off the President’s
budget, commented that “there
was a feeling of a major it# in the
j subcommittee that we are ;n no
way affecting national defense."
Both Taber and Bridges disput
ed Gurney’s estimate that the over
all reduction would take $1,750.
000,000 from the army and navy.
They declined, however, to an
nounce any breakdown on how the
various departments would be cut.
Senators Barkley <D.-Ky.) and
George <D.-Ga.> joined Gurney in
refusing to vote on the budget cut.
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WASHINGTON, (/O')—The navy
told Congress today that even a
$500,000,000 in its new budget
might “so greatly reduce the ef
fectiveness of the navy as to ren
der it practically immobile and
impotent as an instrument of na
tional policy.”
In a report requester! by chair
man Gurney 'R.-S. D.> of the Sen
ate armed services committee, the
navy department said it would
have to take “drastic steps” to cut
back its active fleet if any large
reduction is made in President
Truman’s budget.
Gurney told a reporter he in
tends to reopen before the full
Senate-House budgetary commit
tee Friday a fight against any siz
able cuts in army and navy funds.
President Truman asked $11,
200,000,000 for the armed forces
in his $37,500,000,000 budget. A
Senate-House budgetary sub-com
mittee tentatively agreed to slice
$1,750,000,000 off army and navy
funds in approving a $31,500,000,
000 budget.
Wednesday, February 12. 1947
Canada- U. S. Agree
On Peacetime
Collaboration
W ASHIN GTON, {&) — The
United States and Canada an
nounced jointly today that the two
countries will “continue to collab
orate for peacetime joint security
purposes.”
A statement issued simultane
ously in Washington and Ottawa
said that collaboration wiM be
based on the following principles:
1. Interchange of selected indi
viduals so as to increase the fa
miliarity of each country’s defense
establishment with that of Lie
other country.
“2. General cooperation and ex
change of observers in connection
with exercises and with the de
velopment and tests of material of
common interest.
“3. Encouragement of common
designs and standards it. arms,
equipment, organization, methods
of training and new developments
As certain United Kingdom stan »
ards have long been in use in Can
ada, no radical change is contem
plated or practicable and the ap
plication of this principle will be
gradual.
”4. Mutual and reciprocal ava'l
ability of military, naval and air
facilities in each country; this
principle to be applied as may be
agreed in specific instances. Reci
procally each country will con
tinue to provide with a minimum
of formality for the transit through
its teritory and its territorial wa
ters of military aircraft and public
vessels of the other country.
‘‘5. An underlying principle all
cooperative arrangements will be
without impairment of the control
of either country over all activities
in its territory.”
THE NOME NUGGET 5
VALENTINE DANCE
TO BE GALA EVENT
On February fifteenth, the Nome
High School is giving a gala Val
entine’s dance. The gym is being
decorated in a colorful pattern and
music will be furnished by the No
mads, the five-piece Army Band
never before heard at a public
dance in Nome.
All are invited to attend. Come
and have a good time at one of
the gayest affairs of the year!
MRS. JOHN FAGERSTROM
IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. John Fagerstrom of Gclo
v n. entered the hospital this week
for surgery.
MISS JUSKA RETURNS
FROM SEWARD TRIP
Miss E. Juska, nurse of the May
nard Columbus Hospital staff, re
turned today from Seward, where
she went recently with a tubercu
losa patient for the hospital in
that city.
Ohio % has 39 electric furnaces
capable of making 1,723.360 tons
of steel a year.
OTTAWA, i/P)—Prime Minister
W. L. MacKenzie King disclosed
today that Canada and the United
States have decided that their na
tional defense establishments shall,
‘‘to the extent authorized by law,”
contiuue to collaborate for peace
time joint security purposes.
Tiie prime minister spoke in the
house of commons.
King denied emphatically that
the United States had asked for
military bases in the Canadian
northland.
He enunciated principles for the'
continuance of wartime coopera
tion and said they would strength
en. rather than impair, “the coop
eration of each country within the
h’-n'ider framework of the United
Nations.”
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