Judge Rules 1
“Pyramids” Legal
HUNTINGTON PARK, Cal. </P)
“Now we can start up again!”
i this is the happy cry today of
many pyramid clubbers, following
acquittal of a club member on a
charge of violating the state lot
tery law.
In ruling the pyramid friend
ship clubs are not a lottery, jus
tice of the peace Stanley Moffatt
freed Robert H. Miller of nearby
Bell Gardens in a trial punctuated
by cheers and handclapping.
The justice court was too small
to accommodate the partisan
crowd of 300, so a school audito
rium was used.
District attorney William Simp
son declared:
“We do not regard a decision of
that court as a test in any sense
of the word. We will continue to
enforce the law.”
The pyramid friendship fad be
gan flourishing in southern Cali
fornia several Weeks ago. Mem
bers were promised that for $1
they would receive $2,048 when
names at the bottom of the pyra
mid reached the top at the end of
12 weekly meetings.
Want To Stop
That Snoring?
CHICAGO, (/P) — A gadget de
signed to silence the country’s es
timated 40,000,000 snorers was
put on the market last week by
the No Snore Company.
The plastic device fits into the
mouth like joined upper and
lower dentures. It is solid except >
for pin size air hole.
Claude Porter, company presi-,
dent, said that snoring is caused
by a strong draft of air sucked
into the throat through open;
mouths. The device he said, shuts j
off the draft and forces the snorer
to breath through his nose.
Of the estimated 40,000,000!
snorers in the country, Porter i
said his research disclosed that
2,000000 are women.
Hobo Jo. well known accordion
player and entertainer, who has
been entertaining at May’s, left
for Kotzebue Sunday with Wien’s
where he will play for the patients
in the ANS Hospital. In addition
to his accordion playing, Hobo Jo
has several vaudeville acts which
he skillfully performs.
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LIFTING THE LID
AT JUNEAU
(Contined from Page One)
Ipalook.
The reversal came after speaker
Stanley McCutcheon argued it was
the session’s most important bill
for labor. It now goes to the Sen
ate.
Conright’s argument for recon
sideration was that he thought the
fund should be built up in hope of
extending its benefits to new
groups, including small business
men who sometimes are in the po
sition of both employer and em
ployee.
The House passed Sen. Anita
Garnick’s bill for establishment of
a public employees’ retirement
system in which employees con
tribute five per cent of their sal
aries. The vote was 22-0. Minor
amendments which return the bill
to the Senate provide a retirement
age of 60 after at least ten years’
service, except for elective offi
cers. Municipalities will be able
to include their employees if they
desire.
Three bills were introduced in
the House. Rep. Andrew Hope,
Democrat, introduced an amend
ment to the new property tax pro
posing that boat owners have the
alternative of paying $4 per ton
instead of 10 mills on value. This
would reduce vessel taxes sharp
ly. It was rejected when the bill
was under consideration.
Conright introduced an amend
ment to the veterans’ loan act to
insist only on good and sufficient
security instead of an ironclad
mortgage op the property in
volved. He said it would make the
I
act more workable for such mov
able property as boats.
Owen introduced a bill to
change a law that was signed only
Thursday by the Governor. The
new law provides 20 per cent ex
tra unemployment payment for
each dependent up to 60 per cent,
but held the total allowance at the
previous maximum for an unem
ployed person. Friday’s bill would
change it to allow a 60 per cent
increase in total family payments.
Monday, March 7, 1949
JUNEAU, (JP) — Legislators re
turning at noon today from the
annual inspection visit to the
Sitka Pioneers Home and Mount
Edgecumbe school expected to
face a three-day flood of new
bills.
ts Wednesday is the 45th day —
deadline to get under the wire
with their pet measures. Both
Houses were expected to recon
vene in the afternoon after the re
turn from Sitka.
The controversial liquor mea
sure will top the House calendar.
Introduced by Rep. Warren A.
Taylor, Democrat, it proposes
court clerks and their authorized
deputies can issue licenses instead
of just district court judges. It
makes numerous other changes in
liquor licensing laws.
Jack Allman, representative of
the Alaska Retail Liquor Dealers
association, challegnes the inter
pretation of a bill that “liberal
izes” liquor laws, contending it is
designed to make laws more
workable and more enforceable.
While the House has approved
all tax bills to come before it, the
Senate still has four major tax
measures to come to the floor
from committees. They are the
general business license tax in
amended form, raw fish and in
creased salmon tax bill, also
amended, and the tobacco and ad
missions taxes. Some of them are
likely to reach a final floor vote
this week.
NEWS IN BRIEF ;
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with the body of an unidentified
woman.
The searchers said they found
the body on the north side of
Skolof Island.
SEATTLE, (#>) — Archibald J.
MacArthur, 78, who came to Seat
tle in 1891 from his birthplace in !
Ontario, died Saturday.
In 1904, he went north to open
the first drugstore in Fairbanks,
where he remained until 1912.
Surviving are his widow, Susie
and two sons, Archie A. and Ken
neth R., all of Seattle.
PARIS, (/P) — The American
graves registration command an-1
(nounced today that 71,738 bodies
of American soldiers killed in
World War Two have been ship
ped home to date.
The sixteenth contingent left
Antwerp Saturday when the Haiti
Victory departed, carrying the ra
mains of 2,918 war dead.
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| EDINBURGH, Scotland, {/P) —
| Four ambulances from Edinburgh,
i Muselburgh, and Hadding ton,
! rushed to nearby Longderry on a
report of a plane crash.
They found no dead nor injured
—only the wreckage of a three
foot model plane.
Welsh Town Loses
Five Minutes
KIDWELLY, Wales, (JP) — For
47 years this little Welsh seaport
town has boasted that it is ahead
of the rest of Britain—five min
utes ahead, that is.
But today the local council
turned back the clock.
From now on Kidwelly will be
on Greenwich mean time just as
everyplace else in the British
Isles. Nobody knows for sure just
why the town clock was set five
minutes fast when St. Mary’s
church was rebuilt in 1902. But it
stayed that way until the council
abolished “Kidwelly local time”
today.
ST. PATRICKS DAY PARTY
ANNOUNCED
The members of the Catholic
Church have announced a big St.
Patrick’s Day party for March 17,
at the Pioneer Hall to which ev
eryone is invited.
A good program is being plan
ned. it is reported and there will
be dancing and refreshments.
A St. Patrick’s party was tradi
tional in Nome for many years
prior to the war, being given by
j the Altar Society of the Catholic
Church and one of the best at
| tended parties of the spring so
1 cial season.
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JACK LENCER
Watchmaker
Box 625 Nome, Alaska
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