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VOL. 41. No. 24. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEB. 24, 1939 Price t>er Copy iw
May Be Exempted Wage-Hour Act
$25,000 Exemption Asked In Gross Gold Tax Law
Numerous Bills Introduced for Nome & Seward Pen.
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Tuesday House
Had 112 Bills and
The Senate 82
JUNEAU, Feb. 22 (/P) — One
hundred twelve bills have been
introduced so far in the House
with the limit set for next Thurs
day. The Senate has introduced
82 with the last day also Thurs
day, by agreement. This does no-t
include memorials and resolu-!
lions. The majority of the bills
Tuesday were legal measures.
The House passed the club
cocktail measure allowing incor
porated fraternal organizations
to obtain a license for $200 and
dispense intoxicating liquors to
club members and guests.
Rep. Coffee introduced a mem
orial to increase the duty on
herring to five dollars a barrel,
•also to increase the 25 percent
advolerum duty on salmon, crabs
and clams to 40 percent.
Rep. Rogge introduced a mem
orial asking an amendment to
the Organic Act to permit legis
lators four years instead of two
year terms.
A bill was introduced by Lyng
placing $400,000 each year in a j
9 building fund for the University i
of Alaska, starting with $80,000
Dor the ensuing biennium.
A bill by Martin appropriates
$6,000 for a landing field at Bunk
er Hill and for repair of the field;
at Dahl Creek in the Kougarok
district, also $3700 for repairs on i
the field at D ering.
A Bill by Rep. Coffee asks
$12,000 for a school at Levelock
* and $8,000 for the establishment
of an assay office at Anchorage.
The Indian Liquor bill was re
ported out of committee follow
ing a hearing Monday night,
without recomm; ndation.
Neither House met Wednesday.
Late Tuesday, the Sena-e de
feated the habitual drunkard bill
1 and also the nepotism act, both
by a four to four vote.
New Law Dept.
JUNEAU, Feb. 22 Among
measures introduced in the
House Thursday was a memorial
addressed to Secretary of Com
merce Hopkins asking for an in
vestigation of the halibut fishing
industry, that the short season
and low prices are working a
hardship on the fishermen
A measure was introduced ask
ing gold exemption be raised to
$20,000.
A measure providing for a new
law enforcement office creating a
territorial revenue constabulary,
with a chief appointed by the
governor with a $5,000 salary.
The chief will appoint twelve
constables whose salaries will
range from $1800 to $3,000. Their
duties will be to seek investigate
and prosecute criminal matters
or alleged law violation and will
have the same powers as mar
shals.
The purchase of the Goddard
Hot Springs for $20,000 is provid
ed in a .new measure also $20,000
to make improvements. The
place wmuld be used to take care
of the overflow from the Pio-,
neers Home or possibly as a tu-1
berculosis sanitarium.
$7500 Set Aside
Telegraph Lines
JUNEAU, Feb. 22 0T>)—Intro-'
duced in the House was a bill
appropriating $7500 for the re-:
habilitation of abandoned tele
graph lines between Nome and
Golovin; Nulato and Unalakleet;
Rampart, Eureka, and 'Nenana
Hot Springs; and Cordova to
Chit:na.
(Another b ll recommends a
$500 1:cense tax on employment
agencies and that no charge be
made to any individual for more
than two dollars for any serv
ices in securing employment.
$25,00;) Exemption
JUNEAU. Feb. 22 (/Pi—A bill
to liberalize the three percent
gross gold tax law exemption on
operation up to $25,000 was in
troduced by Senator Roden.
The present exemption is $10,000.
This measure is the only one on
the gold tax before the legisla
ture which covers platinum and
other metals.
The only measure that the
Senate passed was the memorial
asking that placer mining be ex
empted from the Wages and
Hours Act. The House tabled
Walkers memorial for the five
year elimination of fish traps.
Nome Ge! Runway
JUNEAU, Feb. 23 (/P) — The
H tuse passed a bill for $10,000
for the construction of a cross
runway -on the Nome airport, and
$35,000 for the Bunker Hill- Kou
ga-rok road.
The Senate passed the bill li-'
censing junk dealers.
Senate bills introduced were:
By Walker for an appropria
tion of $25,000 for a landing field
at Wrangell.
By Sullivan to provide for a
wolf and coyote bounty invest
igation agent.
By Sullivan to require lighter
age companies to submit records
of their business to inspection by
public officials.
By Sullivan to allow mayors
to hold other salaried offices in \
city government.
A memorial by Sen. Rivers
endorsing Delegate Dimond’s bill j
to increase the pay of Alaska \
Postcffice employees by 25 per-;
cent.
The Senate passed the Patter
son bill allowing $10,000 of high
way money to open the Valdez;
to Willow Creek section of the |
Richardson Highway in the early
sprirg and late fall.
Senate Totals 121
JUNEAU, Feb. 24 (/P) —Bills,
memorials and resolutions in th"
Senate brought the total to 121
new bills Thursday.
Senator HotTman introduced a
bill for $40,00(1 for the construc
tion of a Nash road connecting the
Illiamna Road with the New
Dalton Lake-Clark extension
road from Dillingham to Lake
Alekangik.
Sen. Roden introduced a bill
for $35,000 to purchase James
Wickersham’s Alaska library.
Three memorials were intro
duced by Sen. Rivers: Asking
the President and Secretary of ■
Labor to correct the situation
causing frequent interruptions of:
Alaska borne commerce, due to
quarrels between groups of em
ployers and employees. Urging
that Admiral Island not be made
into a National Park. And asking
that the miximum income of
United States Commissioners be
raised to at least $4,000 a year.
Measures passed were: $41,000
for schools at Snag Point, Hay
cock and Unga.
The bill asking that the provi
sions of the federal highway act
apply to Alaska and the suspen
sion of tolls on the Richardson
Highway was indefinitely post
poned, as was Lyng’s two-way
radio law which was defeated by
a vote of 5 to 3.
A House joint memorial was
passed for the building of sec
tions of highway from Paxton to
the Richardson and to Mount Me
Kinley, also from Copper Center
to the Richardson Highway.
A memorial requesting a com
mission of engineers investigate
the possibilities of reopening the
Copper River Railroad was laid
on the table.
Rep. Leo Rogge of the Fourth
Division introduced a memorial
which asks that two delegates
for Alaska be elected with terms
of four years instead of two and
that election be held each bi
ennum.
Test Flight
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HONOLULU, Feb. 23 </P) —'
The giant Pan-American Boeing
Clipper alighted here at 8:50 a.m.
Pacific Standard Time, on the
first leg of a test flight to Hong
Kong from San Francisco.
The 2400 miles were flown in
15 hours 49 minutes. There was |
a crew of twelve and eleven ob- ■
servers aboard. The ship is cap-;
able of carrying 74 passengers.;
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Captain Denies
lee Caused Flying
Boat Crash
"
Mystery surrounding the crash
of the British Imerpial Airways
plane Cavalier, with the loss of
three lives, deepened as Captain
M. R. Alderson, skipper of the
flying boat, said ice conditions
“definitely” did not force the
craft down at sea. Capt. Alder-1
son is shown in New York as he
told newsmen: “I have flown
through far worse conditions.
The whole thing is ismply baf-!
fling. (See picture at left). j
Spsctators in a downtown Pittsburgh club gasped when Thomas
'Calvert, professional knii'e thrower, missed with one of his knives
and the blade pierced his wife’s arm. Six stitches were required to
close the wound; but that will not keep Mrs. Calvert from the act.
She laughingly told her husband not to miss aim again.
Set Up Industrial
Accident Comm.
JUNEAU, Feb. 23 UP)— When
the Senate and House adjourned
late ton ght (Thursday) the last
day in which to introduce bills,
the Senate had put nto the hop
per, 98 bills and the House 141.
Many of the bills were introduc
ed title only. Both branches must
pass on their own bills and then
transmit them to the other house
by March 1st.
Rep. Anderson’s liquor refer
endum for stores passed the
House.
Senators Rivers and Roden in
troduced a joint bill setting up
an Industrial Accident Commis
sion to pay claims to injured
workers.
Rep. McCutcheon introduced a
memorial asking a congressional
investigation of the Alaska Ru
ral Rehabilitation Corporation at
Matanuska and declared the col- j
onists have faith in the project |
but that manager Ross Sheely is
dictatoriully inclined and not in
sympathy with the project.
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Plot Disclosed
MORRIS, 111., Feb. 22 The
life-long friend and lodge bro-1
ther of Abner Nelson, aged 38,
wealthy bachelor and farmer,
was held on a charge of slaying
the missing man in a plot to
collect ransom. Attorney S. J.
Holderanan said Elvin Wood, 37.
prominent farmer confessed last
night that he shot Nelson in the
back and dumped the body in
the Illinois River. He planned to
iemand ransom from Nelson’s '
relatives.
Trying Devise
Means Exempting
Placer Miners
WASHINGTON. Feb. 24 UP)—
Delegate Dimond said the W'age
Hour Administration will devise
some means to exempt placer
miners from the hour provisions
of the Wage-Hour Act. He said
if the 44-hour week were invok
ed on all placer properties, many
Alaskan workers would be un
able to make a decent living be
cause the hours of employment
are shortened. Dim nd explain
ed: “The placer season in many
regions of Alaska is limited to
two and three months in the sum
mer and miners arc dependent
on the steady employment of a
six and seven day week to earn
enough to carry them through
the winter. If the 44-hour week
were in forced it would be nec
essary to curtail operations on
many properties because of labor
shortages.”
Delegate Dimond said he has
offered two proposals solving the
problem: an amendment to the
act to exempt either all placer
mining or all placer mining car
ried on in remote places where
there is indicated a shortage in
the supply of workers; or an
amendment giving the Wage
Hour Admin, discretionary au
thority to make exemptions
when such exemptions are ag
reed to by both the mine oper
ators and the miners. Dimond
said that in the most part, Alas
kan placer miners were opposed
to the short work week both
from an economic and social
viewpoint.