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Entered at •eoond-claae matter September 2. 191S, at the Poet Office at Seward. Alaaka
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MORE ALLOWANCES FOR FIGHTERS.
LONDON, Sept., 13— A new scale of seperation allow
ances for soldiers, sailors and airmen just issued, will, it
is estimated cost 23,000.000 H>s. yearly. The increased al
lowances are in respect of children under fourteen years
old and for motherless children who are being maintained
in homes. .v
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AN IRiSH PORT. Sept., 13— American officers be
!‘eve the American navy is using the best torpedoes in the
world. They are thoroughly convinced they are far super
ior to those used by the Germans now. At the beginning oi'
the war the German torpedo, the officers say was a mar
vel of hand workmanship but they have reason to believe
that toe ones the Huns are using now are not nearly so ef
ficient and must result at times in inaccurate firing.
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The eight hour law of Alaska, pass*
e<l by the last legislature, knocked in
to a cocked hat by Judge Bunnell in a
decision at Fairbanks, has received a
further kick and,is now dead as adoor
nail. In other words the only eight |
hour recognized by anyone is the eight
hour legarding work in mines.
After Judge Bunnell hud pul the l\.
0. to the regislative act, Attoney
(Sencrnl (ieorge B. (irigsby, in behalf
of the territory, took the law on a
writ of error to the Supreme court of
the I’nited States, or rather he made
a move to do so.
The following correspondence, re
lative io writ of error being placed
on the Supreme court calender and de
nial for such a procedure, on account
illegality, makes mighty interesting
reading for all people of the territory:
I office of the
SOLICITOR (iENER \L
\\ \SHINOTON, I). C.
Hon. (iN)rge B. (Irigsby,
Attorney (leneral, Territory of
Alaska,
Juneau, Alaska.
Dear Sir:—
Your telegram ami letter dat
ed May IT, ISMS, and addressed to the
! Attorney General, with referance t<>
; the writ of error sued out from the
! Supreme Court of the United States
' in the ease of United States vs North
ern Commercial Company and George
\. Coleman, are bet ore me for reply.
They would have b r. responded to
earlier, but it was desired to inspect
•he transcript of record and give* the
matter full consideration before dis
posing of :t.
fhis Department regrets that it can
not accede to your request that the
vrit of error should bo permitted to
remain on the calender in order that
i vow might ent< r an appearance as At
j torney General for the Territory 01
Alaska, pursuant to chapter 4f>. Laws
of Alaska. RUT.
The Revised Statutes, section dot).
•’\nrr s'y provides that, the Attorney
(TenevqJ and Solicitor General shad
conduct and argue suits and writ of
error and apneals in the Supremo
Court in which the United States is in
-te rested.
While the present ease arises out of
a statute oa^nd by *ho territorial log
islature of Alaska, it cannot he said
to be one in which the United States
is not interested, in view of the fact
that thr* United States is t,,r> nartv
! nlaintiff of record. Of course. all ter
ritorial laws in conflict with nnv act
of Congress are ultra vires the Tovr; .
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tory and void. Chapter 46 of the Laws
of Alaska for 1917, page 8.”., can there
-fore confer no authority upon the At
torney General of the Territory to
prosecute writs of error “in which the '
United States is interested,” contrary
to the provisions of the Revised Stat
utes concerning the matter.
It is clear that this Department can
neither divide nor escape the respons
ihilit imposed upon it bv law of de
termining what writs oT error shall
or shall not be prosecuted before the i
Supreme Court , and whether the
merits of the instant case do or do not
justify an effort to reserve the judg
ment of the court below. The statuts
in question forbids the employment of
all wage-earners and salary -earner-,
for more than eight hours in any day
except in cases where life or property
-is in imminent danger. It is not limit
ed in any way to unhealthful, hazard
ous, or exacting occupations, nor chil
dren, women, or other classes demand- J
ing special care or protection. It has
no such ostensible relation to the pub
lic health as the statutes upheld in
Holden vs Hardy, 169 U. S. 9.66 and
Hunting vs Oregon 24”. U. S. 426.
That the right to earn a living is a
property right and one which cannot
V taken away without due process of
law or adequatejustification under the
police power is axiomatic.
This Department does not see any
ground upon which argument could he
eased in support of the validity of the
statute in question, and 1 am there
fore instructed by the Attorney Gen
eral to advise you that the writ of or
ror which has been sued out will be
dismissed, and that the case will not »
be docketed in the Supreme Court.
The United States Attorney for tlv*
Uourtli Division of the District of A’
aska has been advised accordingly.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) Jno. W. Davis,:
Solicitor General. ]
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WASHINGTON, Sept., Id— Chair
man liaruch, of the War Industries ■
Hoard, has asked all American indust- i
ry to co-operate*in bringing the need
ed man power to the army by asking
exemption for the lowest possible |
number of men employed.
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WASHINGTON, Sept., Id— Presi
dent Wilson has signed the joint n
solution passed by Congress empowt
-ing him to establish a prohibition !
zone around shipyards, munition fact
ories and other war industries.
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CARIBOU TO BE
CROSSED WITH
THE IEINDEER
ST. JOHN’S K. Sept., 111.— After
12 years of experimenting in the rais
ing of Lapland reindeer in northei?1
Newfoundland Dr. Wilfre<l T. Gren
fell, the Labrador medical missionary,
has decided to transfer his herd to
Canadian Laborador. An effort will
be made there to introduce a strain
of native caribou blood into the herd
which has deteriorted through years
of inbreeding. Territory west of Belle
Isle Strait in Canadian Labrador has
bee selected foi the new enterprise.
Dr. Grenfell has long held the
theory that caribou might be inbred
with reindeer to produce a highly eff
icient draft animal, suitable for us.?
along the North coast. He was unable
to give this theory a through test in
Newfoundland. The country selected
as the new home of the reindeer is re- ;
mote from settled areas and consider- j
ed well suited for the purpose. By j
agreement with the government ofthe i
province of Quebec increases in the ! .
herd may be shipped back to New I
Found I and if the owner desires.
The Grenfell herd consists of 3001
animals, virtually the same number ;
landed by the missionary twelve year j
ago at St. Anthony when he .introdu
ed reindeer to this province. At one
time the herd numbered 1200 but it
decreased as it deteriroted from lack
of new blood. Dr. Grenfell, who is
now in the North country on mission
ary work, expects that a government j
steamer will transport the deer to !
their new feeding grounds this sum- j
mer.
\YASMI Y<;T<)\~Sept.71 Army *
FLYING FIELDS NAMED
AFTER DEAD AVIATORS
aviation fields at Wantaugh and Min- j
eola, Long Island, have been named in;
memory of Maj. Raoul Lufberry, kill
pd recently in combat in France, and ;
Maj. John Purroy Mitchell, who died
in an aviation accident at Gerstner
field, La.
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