Alaska SS. Asks i
Better Packaging
SEATTLE, (JP) — The Alaska!
Steamship company, in a request;
to shippers to improve packaging
of steamship freight, has disclosed j
that cargo claims for damage, loss
and pilferage cost the company
$114,561 in one year.
Calling on shippers to improve
methods of packing and marking
freight shipments, Adm. F. A.
Zeusler, executive assistant to the
President, said:
“We are convinced that when
shippers actually become aware of
the cost to them of inadequate
packaging and hit-and-miss mark
ing, these practices will be discon
tinued. Then the major problems
involved in overcarried and lost,
damaged and pilfered merchan
dise will have been met from the
shippers’ standpoint.”
Zeusler said the company paid
$114,516.08 in claims during the
year from May 27, 1947, to May 6,
1948.
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New Rent Law
Has Sharper Teeth
JUNEAU, — “The cost of doing
business as a rent violator is go
ing sharply up," said Walter E.
Walsh, Alaska area rent director,
in explaining the “treble damage"
provisions of the new 1949 Rent
Law which went into effect April
1.
Walsh said that under the new
rent law, the office of the housing
expediter now had the right to sue
for three times the amount of rent
overcharges instead of for the sin
gle amount of the overcharge as
under the 1948 law.
Walsh pointed out that the ten
ant still has the right to sue for
treble damages himself within a
month of the violation, and that
the right of the government
agency to sue for treble damages
accrued if the tenant did not him
self sue.
“However," he said, “if the gov
ernment brings the suit for treble
damages, the tenant will receive
at most not more than single dam
ages, with the balance going to the
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U. S. treasury.”
Walsh said the rent office is re
ceiving many calls from tenants
who appeared to be under the im
pression that the tenant would re
ceive the entie amount awarded
by the court if the government
brought the suit, and emphasized
that from suits brought by the
government, the tenant would re
ceive only what the court specifi
cally awarded ^he tenant, in any
case not more than the amount of
the overcharge. The only way for
a tenant to obtain treble damages
is for him to bring suit himself,
Walsh concluded. The area office
is in the Valentine building, Jun
eau.
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Communist Eisler
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States As Stowawav
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would wonder how he got on the
! boat.”
j Asked how Eisler was discover
ed aboard the vessel, Miller said
i “If he got on surreptitiously, he
, may have gotten hungry.”
Eisler, who also was awaiting
deportation proceedings, has been
trying to get out of the country
for a long time. Neighbors report
ed they had not seen him around
his New York apartment since late
i last week.
| The justice department has been
I investigating his disappearan c e
and Scotland Yard defectives were
i waiting for the Botary to dock at
Southampton.
Eisler has admitted being a com
munist, but denied being the No. 1
Red in this country—as alleged
before the House committee on
un-American activities. He even
sought help from the United Na
tions in an effort to be allowed to
leave the United States voluntar
ily and return to his native Ger
many.
i He is one of more than 30 al
j Ieged alien communists accused in
deportation proceedings in the
past two years.
The U. S. Court of Appeals at
Washington refused recently to
upset his conviction on a charge of
j concealing communist connections
in an application for a permit to
1 leave the country. The conviction
| on that charge brought a sentence
of one to three years.
The Civil Rights Congress will
i now forfeit the bail which it
' raised for Eisler.
i W A S H I NGTON. </P) — Mrs.
i Gearhart Eisler today was re-ar
rested for deportation while the
justice department laid plans to
bring her husband back from his
flight across the seas.
The department announced that
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| CAMP MURRAY. Wash.
Brig. Gen. Ensley M. Llewellyn
has won a temporary victory, at
least, as he resumed his position
as state adjutant general.
Taking to the offensive in his
skirmish with Governor Langlie,
the general obtained a temporary
supreme court order prohibiting
the governor from suspending him
or attempting to suspend him
from the job.
Chief Justice Clyde Jeffers di
rected Langlie and his board of in
quiry investigating Llewellyn’s of
fice to show cause May 20 why
the the order should not be made
permanent.
The ouster was ordered origin
ally because, Langlie said, he had
no confidence in Llewellyn. He
also cited 12 charges of “irregu
larities,” including exceeding the
1 budget, commissioning officers for
I whom there was no uniform al
lowance, incompetence, and per
mitting use of state property by
civilians.
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1 A newborn porcupine is larger
| than a newborn black bear cub.
Mrs. Eisler was taken into cus
tody in New York City this morn
ing. She had been at liberty, with
out bond, on charges of being il
legally in this country.
! One reason for her re-arrest
was that the government wished
! to question her about the flight of
| Eisler, 52-year-old admitted com
munist, as a stowaway on a Pol
' ish vessel. The justice department
| said that immigration service offi
cials in New York had been in
i structed to detain Mrs. Eisler on
Ellis Island.
Except for the principle of the
thing, the government could save
quite a bit of money by just ignor
; ing Eisler’s flight while under
| charges looking to his deportation.
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