Nat'I Guard
Alaska Called
“Absurdity”
JUNEAU, Jan. 21 (JP) — The
House in a joint resolution in
troduced by Drager would pre
vent any agency or office of the
Territory from incurring deficits
aifter its appropriation had been
exhausted.
The Senate passed a bill allow
ing communities to incorporate
as public utility districts; for the
purchase and operation of hos
pitals, wharves, warehouses, cold
storage plants and canneries.
A bill introduced by Sullivan
would amend the law relating to
brands. Reindeer and livestock
may be registered with the gener
al reindeer supervisor as well as
the Territorial auditor.
A measure for the creation of
an Alaska Alcohol Administra
tion will go into open hearing
next Friday.
Terming the proposed National
Guard as a “military absurdity”
the Juneau mine and millwork
crs Union presented both Houses
. with a resolution protesting its
organization as “fraught with un
necessary tyrannous interfer
, ence” in civil matters.
Participation
; Alaska In Fair
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Is Voted Down
•JUN'EAU, Jan. 21 (/P) — The
Hptjse by a vote of 9 to 7 killed
to bill which would have appro
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printed $25,000 for A’aska parti
cipation in the San Francisco
Exposition. The House passed
the $175,000 deficiency bill.
Representative McCormick in
troduced a bill making it poss
ible for Alaskan courts to recog
nize frequent visitors as habitual
criminals, thus stopping the
shipping of undesirables to the
Northland.
Representative Walker intro
duced a joint memorial to Con
gress urging that it act for a
marine hospital for Alaska.
A McCormick and Walker joint
ly presented a memorial urging
Congress to exempt Alaska from
the International treaty requir
ing five registered men on cer
tain tonnage vessels. This law his
hit trollers and others.
JUNEAU. Jan. 21 (/P)—legis
lators were scheduled to leave
Saturday afternoon aboard the
Game Comission, Seal Bureau
Fisheries vessel, Brant, to “visit
and investigate the conduct of
affairs at the Pioneei-’s Home” at
Sitka. The party includes Sen
ators, Walker, Roden, Cochran,
Laboyateaux, and Rivers; Repre
sentatives, Walker, Spencer,
•Dowd, Porter, CbfTey, Rogge,
Smith, McCutcheon, Gordon,
.Drager and Lander. There was
no quorum left in either house.
They will probably return late
Monday.
Territorial Mining Engineer
Stewart is drafting two bills to
bring territorial mining laws into
conformity and standardization
with labor legislation.
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Senate And
House Visited
Pioneer Home
JUNEAU, Jan. 21 (/P) — Ad
journing early Saturday after
noon to Monday night at 7:30 the
majority of the Senate and House
members left for an inspection
of the Pioneer’s Home at Sitka.
The House in a joint memorial
introduced by Smith asks Con
gress to appoint a commission to
examine into the possibility of
reopening the Copper River Rail
road to relieve the desperate sit
uation of fifteen hundred people
along the railroad and also var
ious mining districts.
A House bill introduced by
Davis would create a Pioneer
Home trust fund in which would
be placed the bequeaths to resi
dents of the Home.
Lobby groups were notified to
take out licenses as required and
to file the names of those they
are representing.
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FACE TO FACE WITH HISTORY Byron Price (left), executive news editor of The
Associated Press, and Raymond Massey, actor-portrayer of Abraham Lincoln, study an 1865 news
account of the Great Emancipator’s death, in connection with Christmas day broadcast highlighting
Associated Press history, as part of which Mr. Massey gives two of Lincoln’s famous addresses.
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First Tourists
| 1939 Arrive
Nome by Plane
Doing things in a different way
is often to receive the most pleas
ant and satisfying experiences.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Patton
of Chicago are exactly the type
of people who like to do that.
They arrived by Wien Alaska
Airlines from Fairbanks, and are
touring Alaska in the winter time
—something that the general run
of socalled tourists throw up
their hand at in horror!
Possibly being in the advertis
ing business in Chicago has giv
en Mr. Patton a slant that in or
der to see some countries it is
necessary to visit them during
the times when much of the “ro
mantic” publicity is created about
them.
In any event they are having
a wonderful time and enjoying
teir new experiences to the ut
most.
The Pattons leflt Fairbanks
last Wednesday with Pilot Sig
Wien and flew to Nenana and
from there down to within fif
teen miles of Mt. McKinley
which they photographed from
an altitude of eleven thousand
feet. Proceeding from there they
flew to Lake Minchumina where
they spent the night—about six
ty miles from North America’s
tallest mountain.
The next day they flew to the
Yukon river and down to Ruby
and Koyukuk Station where
they spent the night with Dom
inic Venetti, coming on into
Nome today.
Mr. and Mrs. Patton plan to'
fly to Point Hope in the next;
few days and visit the Eskimo
village there, also Archdeacon1
Goodwin and then return to Fair
banks by way of Kotzebue.
They came to Alaska last July
going in by way of Skagway and
thence to the head waters of the
Yukon and down that mighty |
river to Tanana and up the Tan
ana river to Fairbanks where
they spent three or four months.
Once during the summer they
made a trip up the Kantishna
river by small boat and spent
two weeks at Lake Minchumina,
where they said it rained all but
one day. This winter Mr. Patton
made a mail run from Nenana
to Diamond via dog team. They
are interested in the native life
of the country and are seeking
the natural conditions in their
visit to Alaska.
Much of Alaska’s glamorous
history has been built up about
the severe winters and hardships
which people encounter, and
much of the publicity written
| about this great Territory has
! come from people who have nev
er spent a winter here to wit
ness the inevitable conflict be
tween nature and man.
But the Pattons can truly be
■ called the “First 1939 Tourists
' with a Yen to know the inside
dope about the country during
; its winter period.” They saw the
: summer and now they are see
ing the winter.
More of the same kind would
certainly spread the authentic
information concerning this land
of “snow and ice’’. We wish them
luck in their further flights.
Scandal feeds upon very little
fact.
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