President’s Budget
Message Asks Aid
For Alaska Roads
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crease of $10,000 from the current
year. For reconstruction of the
Richardson Highway he recom
mended $250,000 and he asked
$7,000,000 for the Alaska Railroad
special fund. The total recom
mended for the government of the
Territory was divided between
$8,578,000 from regular funds and
$7,001,000 from special funds.
The Territory would benefit
from appropriations recommended
for other departments. The budget
asks $23,950 for agriculture exten
sion service there: $42,500 for ag
riculture experiment stations: the
Indian Service was listed for
$160,000 for construction of hospi
tals, schools, dock repairs and
quarters; $250,000 was asked for
investigations of mineral resources
in Alaska, an increase of $50,000,
and $872,000 was recommended
for the fish and wildlife service
for Alaska fisheries for protection
of seal, otter and other fisheries
and for furnishing food and cloth
ing to natives on Pribilof Islands.
Alaska fur seal investigations
w'ere listed lor $69,300, an increase
of about $7,000, and the Alaska
Native Service of the Indian Bur
eau was specified for $4,069,000
compared to $3,429,008 this year.
Funds for enforcement of the
Alaska game laws were set at
197,700 as compared with $162,630
this year, $150,000 was suggested
Second Volcano
In Alaska Erupts
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a two-inch coating of volcanic ash, |
and that cinders an inch and a
half in diameter, lay on the wharf.
Meantime a new report from a
naval service vessel said inhabi
tants were not in danger at the vil
lage of Akutan, where the valcano
of the same name still was erupt
ing.
Ensign Dennis N. Dillon of Cor
vallis, Ore., said bright orange
colored flames of varied intensity
“seemed to burst from expanding
gases” on Akutan mountain, and
that flames were seen piercing the
clouds and appeared to rise several
hundred feef'above the mountain
top.
Ensign Dillon, captain of a nav
al escort vessel which passed the
island January 6, reported he and
Lt. Willie E. Gros of Kirkland,
Wash., observed the flames for a.i
hour and a half.
First reports of the Akutan
eruption came from the navy ear
lier this week. Authorities said
ridges and valleys between the
peak and the village of Akutan
would protect inhabitants, al
though earlier reports said lava
was flowing down Akutan’s slopes.
for the fox and fur seal industries
of the Pribilof Islands; $14,000 for
indigent relief and $1,679,000 for
the Signal Corps’ Alaska Com
munication System, an increase of
$936,000 over the present year.
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House Goes Ahead
Of Senate On
Labor Legislation
(By William F. Arbogasi)
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Re
publican-controlled 80th Congress
ended its first week of business to
day with the House threatening to
take the ball away from the Sen
ate on labor legislation.
House leaders privately dis
closed plans to have their branch
write a comprehensive strike con
trol measure before the March 1
date chairman Taft (R.-Ohio) has
set for his labor committee to send
one to the Senate for debate.
It is possible the new House la
bor committee headed by Rep.
Hartley (R.-N. J.) will use as the
basis of its considerations the all
inclusive measure introduced yes
terday by Rep. Francis Case <R
S. D.).
“We aren't going to wait for me
Senate; we can pass a bill much
quicker in the House," a high
; placed Republican told reporter
The new labor measure propos
ed by Representative Case is far
broader than the Case biil vetoed
] last year by President Truman. It
includes more than a score of la
bor law revisions one of which
would make it possible for th>>
government to delay a coal strike,
j or a strike in any equally impor
1 tant industry, through federal
court injunction.
It also defines a group of "un
‘ fair labor practices” by unions.
Senate Republicans had planned
j to concentrate at the outset on the
' 1946 Case bill with slight revisions,
and to tackle more comprehensive
legislation later.
I
Competing with labor legislation
for Congressional interest and as
! surer! of almost equally-prompt at
tention are bills to cut taxes and
to dole out to the various govern
ment agencies the funds they need
i for the fiscal year starting next
July 1.
In the background, but likely to
erupt into the fight stage at any
time, are such issues as universal
training, army-navy merger and
removal of rent controls.
The widely-held belief that Con
i gress is in a mood to enact some
form of strike control or labor
union regulation legislation was
bolstered by an Associated Press
poll of Republican and Democratic
leaders of both chambers.
Six of the eight listed such ac
tion as “certain,” while the other
two termed it “probable.”
Only three were “certain" that
income taxes would be cut but
five said a reduction is “probable."
CAPT. LINCOLN OST
TO BE CIVILIAN SOON
FORT LEWIS, Wash. — Capt.
Lincoln Ost of Seattle, Wash., who
for the past four years has served
in the Coast Artillery, will revert
to inactive status on January 25,
1947, it was announced today by
Lt. Col. J. Willard Wagner, com
manding the Separation Center
I here.
Capt. Ost participated in the
1 Northern France, Rhineland, Cen
tral Europe and Ardennes cam
paigns, and was awarded the Bel
gian Tauraguere.
| Capt. Ost will return to Seattle,
J where he will work for Boeing
Aircraft Co.
“In company with his fellow of
' ficers, Capt. Ost responded to the
call for military duty and con
tributed his valuable experience
to the splendid record of the
American forces in achieving vic
tory,” Colonel Wagner said.
Dock Companies
Impose Demurrage
On Shipments
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open a hearing at Seattle on ter
minal charges there.
Claude Smith, president of the
Juneau Merchants Association, de
clared local merchants considered
the demurrage charges wholly un
justified in view of the reason for
the demurrage: namely that the*
goods were impounded due to a
labor dispute over which Alaskans
had no control whatever.
“This is one of many reasons
why the merchants of Alaska are
aggressively supporting a new
source of supply which will be
permanent and regular,” Smith
said.
Other ports of Alaska are being
contacted through their merchants
associations on this same matter.
Another source of grievance ex
pressed by merchants at their
.meeting was the matter of stand
by charges on merchandise being
1 delivered at the docks in Seattle
! and amounting to as high as twen
| tv-' ix dollars on a single eight
i hundred pound shipment. In many
. cases the trucking charges at Seat
, tie amounted to more than the
freight between Seattle and Juneau.
Overcharge On
Shipments Over
Alaska Highway
SEATTLE, (JP) — The Seattle
Chamber of Commerce said today
it had a complaint from a Fair
banks, Alaska, shipper that he
was overcharged by the Province
of Alberta on shipments over the
Alaska Highway and that the
Chamber’s Washington, D. C., of
fice had notified the state depart
ment.
Leo Hardy. Fairbanks, reported
he is being overcharged one cent
per ton mile for using the 950
miles of the highway through Al
berta, the chamber said. He claim
ed that the overcharge makes it
unprofitable for him to ship
freight from Great Falls, Mont., to
Fairbanks.
The chamber’s Alaska commit
tee, headed by M. Dederer, has
asked the chamber of commerce
at Edmonton to look into the
rates.
The chamber’s Washington of
fice said the state department an
nounced it was ready to investi
gate the charges.
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requires a maintenance crew of six
photo men on the ground.
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