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Stops Clock For
' 17th. Legislature
JUNEAU, March 23, —Special to
the NUGGET—The Legislature,
both in the House and in the
Senate, stopped the clocks shortly
before midnight Thursday, and
^ prepaored to continue the session
for sevral hours, spcially ovr the
Appropriations bill.
The Senate postponed indefin
itely the House revised salmon
pack bill which was introduced
Wednesday night. The Senate
also passed the House bill for a
on.e-cent fish tax, and the bill
to tax all craft on land, sea and
* in the air, also a bill for $1,000
appropriation for the deficiency
in the governor’s entertainment
fund, the bill was muchly debat
ed. The Senate passed a salary
raise for Territorial heads to $5,
600, and a flat raise of 15 percent
v increase for Territorial employ
ees over the 1943 appropriation
rate.
JUNEAU, March 23, —(/P)—The
Legislature did not finish it’s bus
iness Thursday at midnight as
many important have yet to be
acted upon, including appropri
^ ations which the Senate has only
half completed.
There are also the gasoline tax,
liquor revenues, property tax,
insurance tax, and many corelated
bills and memorials.
After nearly two days discus
sion, the House passed the Tax
^Commissioner measure, to be ef
fective on January of next year.
The position is scheduled to go
to former Internal Revenue Col
lector O. S. Sullivan.
The House passed the Senate
bill for consolidating school dis
tricts, which allows municipalit
ies to take in 250 square miles.
At the Wednesday night session
^ of the House the ‘liberals’ drop
ped a bomb broadside at the
canned salmon industry, with a
tax roughly estimated to produce
$7,000,000 in revenue, launching
what may certainly be a last
ditch stand in the battle over
again, the recently defeated grad
* uated tax measure by the sim
ple expedient of adding zeros to
the pack tax in the Senate bill
of eight cents per case on ‘reds’
and four cents on other species,
making the case tax eighty and
forty cents, and then inserted a
graduated trap scale up to $1,600,
with $2 per thousand fish, the
total bill estimated to bring in
► $7,000,000 revenue. What the
• Senate will do with the bill is
Captain Ross Heads
Civilian Patrol
Capt. Thomas A. Ross, for many
years the Officer in Charge of
Nome Coast Guard Station, and
was active in all civic affairs, is
now in charge of coastal patrols
off the coast of Washington and
Oregon.
This fleet of small craft is be
ing operated by civilians, who
have volunteered for this work,
which is under Coast Guard super
vision.
CARD SERIES
HELD 21st.
The fourth game of the Pioneer
Card Series was held at the Mas
onic Temple Wednesday evening
March 21, and the following are
the prizewinners. - for the ladies
first prize Mrs. Ann Jenks, sec
ond Mrs. Karen Baldwin, consol
ation Mrs. Olive Fultz.-.and for
the men, first Charles Pennycook,
second Emory Mahan, and con
solation Aimer Rydeen.
The high scorers leading for
the Trophy are Mrs. Ben Gillette
with 444, and Charles Pennycook
with 451.
Naval Officers
Visit Nome
Commander H. C. Hollenbeck,
Commander of Air Transport
Squadron 5, and Captain W. D.
McDade, Deputy Commander of
the 17th. Naval District, and
Commander of the Naval Air
Station at Kodiak, passed through
Nome yesterday on their return
trip from Barrow, where they had
gone on a reconnaisance trip.
Lt. “Bud” Branham, Officer in
Charge of the Search and Res
cue, now stationed at Ladd Field,
was flight officer on the trip. •
Unpredictable
Senate Drops
I
JUNEAU, March 23, Special to
the NUGGET, — After an all
night session, the 17th Legislat
ure moved to adjourn at 3 pan.
They passed a record approp
riation of $5,631,822.
At 3 pm. the Senate threw a
monkey wrench into the motion
for adjournment, with the state
ment that there were svral impor
tant matters yet to be completed.
Bills relating to labor, taxes and
others.
unpredictable.
Jones, Food Adm. i
Advocates Fisring
WASHINGTON, March 23, —iff)
—Marvin Jones, War Food Ad
ministrator, is listed by Senat
ors Mitchell and Magnuson as
an advocate of expanding fish
ing operations in the Pacific.
The senators conferred with
Jones in their proposal for the
United States to claim jurisdiction
over the Bering shelf, which is
a source of great supplies of mar
ine food.
' Senator Mitchell said “Jones
supports our views and promises
i to . prepare immediately, an ap
plication to the Defense Plant
Corporation for financial aid in
the construction of a floating can
nery.
A.C.E. Mgr. Here
After Vacation
In The States
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Jack return
ed to Nome after a vacation in
the States.
Mr. Jack is manager for the
Arctic Circle Exploration Com
pany at Candle, Alaska, where the
company is actively engaged in
mining asbestos.
The asbestos from that region
is used extensively for laboratory
work and is not availably in any
other part of North America.
Gene Jeck, an experienced flyer
himself, brougt in a plane to fly
the ores by air to Fairbanks, as
there is no other method of
freighting in or out of Candle
during the Winter months..
FILE FOR OFFICE
CITY ELECTION
The following have filed their
intentions to run for offices in
the forthcoming City election On
April 3rd.
For Mayor, - Edward Seidenverg;
for councilmen, - Chris Roust,
Joe Wallace, and Guy Mish; for
City attorney, - C. C. Tanner; for
City Clerk, - Carrie McLain; for
School Board A. Steinwandel and
Walter Dowd; for Treasurer, - H.
Gabrielson.
BONE STICKS
IN THROAT
Mr. Peter Kurowski was taken
to the hospital because of a bone
stuck in his throat while eating.
DRAFT LAW
EXTENDED
ONE MOR EYE AR
WASHINGTON, March, 23, —</P)
—The House yesterday passed
unanimously and sent to the Sen
ate, legislation extending the
Draft Law to May 15, 1946.
WASHINGTON, March 23, —(JP)
—Congressional opposition to the
unqualified extension of the Draft
Lwa, dissolved in the face of fig
ures showing the need of more
than 405,000 inductions between
now and July 1, with prospects
thereafter of a 31 percent in the
draft rate from 135,000 to 93,000
men per month.
What started out as a well
backed movement to fence in the
extension of the act, promised to
| turn into a stampede to rush it
through without strings before
the House recesses for easter next
Wednesday.
Montgomery's
Troops Cross
Lower Rhine
PARIS, March 23, —<7P)—Berlin
reported shortly after noon that;
General Montgomery’s forces are
crossing the lower Rhine.
Allied Headquarters maintains
a cagey silence on that front.
Far to the south Patton’s Third
Army captured Mainz, and Lan- ■
dau a fortified palatial road cen- i
ter, after mopping up the chem
ical capital Ludwigshafen.
General Hodge’s shock troops
captured the Rrine factory town
Neuwied, after crossing the nar
row Wied river in a dozen places.1
—
Cen. Bradley Says
We Can Cross The
Rhine Anytime
|
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12th. ARMY GROUP HEAD
QUARTERS, March 23,—(/P)—
“The Allies can now cross the
Rhine almost anywhere and at
any time,” said General Omar
N. Bradley, “the necessity for
keeping the Remagen bridgehead
small has now been removed.”
The 12th Army Group Com
mander gave correspondents a
review of the victories in the
Rhineland in which his First and
Third Armies played major roles.
NAZIS FACE
FINAL PHASE
Soys Eisenhowerr
SAYS IKE
LONDON, March, 23, —^—Con
tinuous day and night bombings
of Germany at the rate of 274
tons of explosives per hour, is
turning the Reich into a chaos, in
preparation for the the knockout
blow from the ground.
Since the big aerial offensive
started three weeks ago, the Al
lies have hit theReich with more
than twice the tonnage of bombs
dropped on England since the
start of the war.
“The terrific devastation is
almost beyond comprehension, but
relentless falling on every
type of military objective, from
i the smallest crossroad to Berlin
I itself, unquestionably has made
! the way easier for the “dough
boys”, ” General Eisenhower de
clared at Supreme Headquarters,
He said, “Germany is approach
ing the final phase of the war.
“Her oil production is at the low
est level since Hitler’s forces set
out on the disastrous road of con
quest, as a result of these cease
less bombings the oil output has
shrunk to45,000tonr monthly, on
ly 9 percent of the rate last April
when our attacks on oil plants be
gan in earnest.
The Supreme Allied Commander,
concluded “During the past 10
days the Rhur valley and the
Rhine plains have been system
atically isolated from the rest of
the Reich, and were depleted of
rail and highway movement nec
essary to resist full ground ass
ault.”
Hitler’s Elite
Guard Makes
Final Stand
LONDON, March, 23, —{/P)~
Marshal Konev’s new Silesian of
fensive rolled forward along an
80 mile front toward the inner
mountain fortress of Germany,
where Hitler’s Elite Guard are
reported making preparations for
a final stand.
The German command announ
ced that Marshal Zhukov is at
tacking from the flanks of his
Oder river bridgehead at Kues
trin with strong tank and infant
the attack was smothered in a
German fire.
Moscow said that the full scale
assault on Berlin was immediate
ly at hand.