Alaska Legislation
First Session
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^ serve a wide area around Anchor
age, increase the annual appropri
ation authorization for Alaska Ex
periment Station work on a par
with the States, Hawaii and Puer
to Rico, transfer $745.64 to the
town of Craig representing taxes
paid by the New England Fish
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Company to the Clerk of Court
instead of to the town for salmon
packed within the town limits, re
imburse three Alaskans for travel
expenses incurred upon their dis
charge from the Army, provide
that all mining claims in 'Alaska
would be taxed according to the
rate fixed by the Territorial legis
lature or at a price paid the United
States, allow the Secretary of the
Interior to prevent the wasteful
taking of salmon in Alaska streams,
authorize the Governor of Alaska
to fix general election fees, trans
fer abandoned • Alaska Native
Service school property to local
Territorial school officials, and
transfer the old Presbyterian
Church in Juneau to the Juneau
camp of the Alaska Native Bro
therhood or Sisterhood.
The Alaska statehood bill will
be the first order of business when
Congress convenes next January.
Other Bartlett bills to be consid
f ered include extending the work
men’s compensation laws of Alas
ka to persons working on federal
projects, abolition of fish traps in
Alaska waters, construction of an
Arctic Health Institute, authority
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
to compile and keep up-to-date
economic statistics on the Terri
tory and bills to exempt the 25
•percent cost-of-living allowance
from income tax payments and
travel from the payment of a
transportation tax. The statehood
bill was reported to the House in
March and has been pending in
the Rules Committee. Prelimin
ary hearings were held on the
workmen’s compensation bill and
a special subcommittee of the
House Merchant Marine and Fish
eries Committee will conduct hear
ings in Alaska this fall on the
question of the abolition of fish
traps.
Federal employees in Alaska re
ceived a number of benefits along
I with employees in 4he S'ates when
Congress enacted a bill overhaul
ing the Classification Act of 1023
resulting in an average pay in
crease of $141 a year for govern
ment classified employees and
lilting the present $10,300 federal
ceiling to $14,000. The postal em
ployees received a flat $120 pay
•taise with both bills providing
longevity increase features. Con
gress liberalized the federal em
ployees compensation law to pro
vide almost double the injury ben
efits previously received with wi
dows, orphans and other depend
ents of federal employees who die
from injuries received on the job
getting substantially more in the
way of payments. Allowance was
made for the maximum per diem
of $11 to federal employees travel
ling within the Territory on offi
cial business, a raise from the old
allowance of $80. Survivorship
annuity benefits were extended to
the dependents of government em
ployees at less cost to employees
with wives working for the gov
ernment allowed to name hus
bands as annuity beneficiaries for
* the first time in the history of the
Civil Service.
'To be concluded'
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Ants smell with their antennae.
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said cargo volume was slightly be- !
low high points reached during
the summer months, but the down- >
ward winter trend was “not as
pronounced as had been antici- j
[ pated.’ Northbound cargo out of 1
Seattle totalled 464,778 pounds
and southbound volume into Seat- j
tie totalled 54,903 pounds.
MANILA,(/P)—'Presidential can
didate Jose P. Laurel yesterday
balked at turning over personal
firearms carried by his bodyguards
during the last week of the fever
ish national election campaign.
President Elpidio Guierino ban
ned the carrying of weapons ex
cept by police from Nov. 1 to Nov.
20.
Laurel said he had been granted
a permit to carry a weapon “for
my protection.” He refused to give
it up. It is a submachine gun.
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PRESTON, Eng., (A*)—J Robert- !
I son advertised a cottage for rent
j at 14 shillings <$1.96> a week.
, He was swamped by more than
1,000 replies and now is interview
ing prospective renters twelve at
a time.
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ROME (TP)—Francesco Cardinal
Marmaggi, one of the top admin
istrators in the Vatican, died early
yesterday following a heart attack.
He was 73.
Cardinal Marmaggi, elevated to
the Sacred College in 1935, was
prefect of the congregation of the
council.
His death reduces the member
ship of the College of Cardinals to
54. The full membership is 70.
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YAKIMA, Wash., UP) —Justice
O. V. Douglas laughingly asserted
Wednesday: “We may go for a
new record if this keeps up.”
The U. S. Supreme Court jurist
referred to a new doctors’ report
that showed he broke 17 ribs,
rather than 13, when his horse fell
and rolled on him during a Cas
cade mountain outing last month.
Douglas still does not know
when he will be able to leave the !
hospital although he occasionally
sits up and dons street clothes.
SEATTLE, UP)—Equipment for
completing Sitka's first standard
broadcasting station will move
north on the SS. Denali Nov. 5,
William J. Wagner of the Alaska
Broadcasting Company said today.
The new station will be KIFW.
Wagner said the completed 250
l watt station will cost around $40.
; 000.
Bankers Against ;
Increased Price
For Sale Of Gold
SAN FRANCISCO, (A1)—Gold—
magic word in this historic city
made famous by gold seekers in
'49—held sway at the American
Bankers Association convention
Wednesday.
From the opening song—“Days
of Old, Days of Gold, Days of
Forty-Nine”—to the final address,
attention focused on the yellow
metal and its problems.
Florence Quarterar, San Fran
cisco’s Metropolitan opera star, led
the closing session in the song of
gold.
Allan Sproul, president of the
New York federal reserve bank,
carried the theme in a scholarly
review of the entire gold question
—convertibility, price and a free
market.
The convention kept pace,
adopting a resolution to continue
the price of gold at $35 an ounce,
as advocated by the secretary of
the treasury.
Sproul hit hard at a “free mar
ket” in gold sought by miners and
others wanting a higher price for
the metal. He said it would be a
“witless proceeding . . . matched
only by our bonanza provisions for
the special benefit of the miners
of silver.”
He was just as firm in his opin
ion about convertibility, or a gold
standard—permitting anyone to
exchange his money into gold coin
at any time. t
Increasing the price of gold,
Sproul said, would have these two
major results:
1. It would provide gold-pro
ducing countries and those with
sizable gold reserves or private
hoards with additional windfall
dollars with which to buy Ameri
can goods.
2. It would provide the basis
for an expansion of credit in the
United States “which might be
highly inflationary.”
Other resolutions adopted fa
vored continuation of the foreign
aid program, supported the treas
ury's savings bond program, urged
balancing of the federal budget by
economy and without increasing
taxes and called for preservation
of the American way of life.
Hugh Lundborg who has spent
the past season in Candle where
he has mining property leaves
soon for the States where he will
spend the winter visiting rela- j
tives in and around Washington, '
D. C. 1
Yugoslavia Votes
With Communists
LAKE SUCCESS, </P) — The
United Nations political commit
tee approved overwhelmingly to
day a resolution declaring Al
bania and Bulgaria endanger
peace in the Balkans by assisting
the Greek guerrillas. The vote
was 38 to 6, with 2 abstentations.
The resolution was jointly spon
sored by the United States, Bri
tain, China and Australia. It also
calls upon Albania and Bulgaria
to stop supporting the communist
led guerrillas.
Yugoslavia joined Russia and
her four satellite countries of
Eastern Europe in voting against
the resolution. Nations abstaining
were India and Israel.
FLAMINGOS MEET
HURRICANES
MIAMI, Fla. (/P) — Flamingos,
famed pink birds of Florida, know
how to take care of themselves in
a hurricane.
When the great winds come, the '
TOURIST COMMITTEE
DISCUSSED PLANS
The first meeting of the Tourist
Committee met Wednesday eve
ning in the Polet Arts and Crafts
Store and discussed the prelimin
ary plans to organize a perm; nent
organization, the points discussed
were Finances, Permanent Paid
Secretary, Territorial Wide Activ
ities, the Building of Activities of
Interest to the tourists such as Dog
Racing, Skiing, Reindoor Spbrts,
Native Life, Native Entertain
ments and Handicrafts. The de
velopment of Hotels, Roadhouses,
Lodges and Clubs will be under
taken.
The Pioneer of Alaska are dis
cussing the establishment of a mu
seum for Northwestern Alaska in
Nome. Another committee will be
called soon to further outline the
plans.
birds take to dry land, form them
selves into a wedge, with the V
pointing into the wind. The point
shifts as the direction of the wind
changes.
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