Call For Audit Of
Gov’t. Accounts
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Robertson (R.-Wyo.) today calle.l
for a complete audit by Congress
of the accounts of all government
functions since 1933.
He introduced a resolution to
set up a joint committee to audit
jovernment expenditures, with a
working fund of $10,000,000. |
The committee, to be composed
of members of the committee on (
executive expenditures of each
house, could make preliminary re
ports and recommendations from
time to time and would be requir
ed to make a final report to the
next Congress “as soon as practic
able after its opening.”
It would have authority to con-j
duct hearings and the power to'
subpoena.
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Sitka Sanatorium
To Be Dismantled
SKAGWAY, Alaska, (/P>—How
ard P. Anderson, superintendent
of the Skagway Tuberculosis sana
torium, today informed the cham
ber of commerce that the bureau
of Indian affairs had ordered re
moval of the sanatorium to Alice
Island, Sitka by February 1. The
structure is to be dismantled.
The institution, now housing 89
patients, has been an important
revenue producer for Skagway.
At Juneau, Don Foster, superin
tendent of the Alaska Indian Serv
ice, confirmed the removal and
said the orders were made be
cause the Skagway buildings are
old and endangered by flood wa
ters, and that operating costs there
a high. At Sitka, the sanatorium
will occupy modern buildings with
a capacity of 100 to 150 beds.
DR. LEROY FLORA
VISITING IN NOME
Dr. LeRoy Flora, prominent An
chorage physician has been visit
in" in Nome and is located at the
Wallace Hotel.
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TAX COUNSELORS
Office in Wallace Hotel - Phone Main 11
Juneau NOME Fairbanks
New Labor Bill
Introduced !
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WASHINGTON. </P>—'The Scn-|
ate labor committee got a new bill \
today to study during its five j
weeks of hearings—a closed shop
measure with novel features writ
ten by freshman Senator McCarthy
(R.-Wis.).
Proposing amendments to the
Wagner labor relations act, the
bill among other things wouljl
grant employers the right to state
opinions frankly to their workers
on all labor questions so long as no
threat of force was involved.
The bill would leave “preferen
tial hiring” and “maintenance of
membership” as matters to be de
cided in collective bargaining, as
at present.
But the “union shop” and
“closed shop” would be taken out
of the realm of bargaining, and
each would depend entirely—in
any plant—on whether two-th;rds
of the employees want it.
ANDREW J. VOLSTEAD DIES
IN GRANITE FALLS. MINN.
Andrew J. Volstead, aged 87,
the man who personfied prohibi
tion, died on January 20, at his
home in Granite Galls, Minn.
Mr. Voltsead has been in retire
ment since the repeal of the Vol
stead Act in 1933.
Besides the Volstead Act, he is
credited with drawing -up and see
ing enacted into law the Farmers'
Co-Operative Act and numerous
other bills to end the broad powers
of President Wilson, granted in
the emergency of World War I.
Mrs. Carl Lomen of this city,
his only daughter, has been with j
him since leaving Nome last fall.
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Custodian of confidence.,
born of a thorough knowledge
of the Territory
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NOME, ALASKA
Alaskan Fishing
Season Reduced
(By Vern Haugland)
((/P) Special Washington Service' j
WASHINGTON, (/Pi—1The Inte
rior department reduced Alaska s ;
commercial fishing season as much
as a month today to protect late
running salmon.
Secretary of Interior J. A. Krtig
attributed the regulations change
for 1947 in part to testimony by
fishermen, at Fish and Wildlife
hearings in Seattle and Alaska
last year, that an alarming delay
in pink salmon runs could be cor
rected only by allowing more of
the early-arriving fish to escape to
reproduce themselves.
In 1947, the opening dates for
commercial fishing in all districts
of Southeastern Alaska except the
Stikine district will be two weeks
to a month later than in 1946.
The delay will be partially off
set by a reduction in the period
each week when fishing is closed,
from 60 to 36 hours. In addition,
if the runs are late and of suffi-1
cient volume, the season may be
extended in alternative open and |
closed periods—in the Alaska Pe-1
ninsula, Kodiak and Prince Wil- j
liam Sound areas as well as in'
southeastern Alaska.
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REBEKAH LODGE MET
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
The Midnight Sun Rebekah
Lodge met at the Pioneer Igloo j
last Wednesday evening with the j
new Noble Grand, Mrs. E. Mahan
presiding. During the evening the
degrees of the order were con
ferred on Olive Fults, Bessie Hux
ley and Lois Travis.
Isn’t it fortunate that most of
us are more ignorant that we
realize
Stockholders Meeting
A meeting of the NWA Fair
Assn, will be held Jan. 26, 1947,
at 2:30 P.M.. at City Hall.
Election of the Board of Direc
tors and other business in connec
tion with the coming Ninth Fair
will be considered.
A. Polet, Secretary.
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