The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1937, Page 8

FIRST SOCIAL SECURITY PLAN IN LEGISLATURE Roden I Senate to Put Territory Under Federal Act Tl:o Sceial Security Act made first appearance before the Ter torial Legislature today when Sena- tor Henry Roden of the First Divie- jon, introduced a measure th Senate today which aimed bring the Territory under the Fed eral Social Security Act. It would monthly payments to thote entitled to it at not to exceed $45 per month and would create an exe- cutive post at a salary of $3.000 year to administer the act On motion of Senator Victor Rivers the Senate voted to have t Senate voted to have the President appoint a committee of four to con- fer with a like committee from the House with the aim of making thorough study Social Securit Jegislation as it would apply to the Territory. Many amendments and revisions are anticipated in the So- cial Security proposal before it fin- comes to a vote of the Legi lature. After a brief session adjourned this afterncon p.m. tomorrow. TOWNSEND PLAN DOLLARS HAVE SHOPPING SPREE a o of ally until 2 Introduces Bill in 4 [ aj the Senate | Fourteen firemen were buried in the debris when the roof of a two-story factory building collapsed in Brook- lyn, N. Y. Ten of the fire fighters were rushed to hospital, where two were found to be in serious condition. A s J PLANS URGE OF 0B SECURITY led the collapse of the building. “Lemon or Cream?” Eon: Wil Bouss i 3. C. c.: SECY.OFLABOR Fleming, Chelan, Wash., 0. A. Plan Experimenter CHELAN, Wash,, Jan. 19.—Tagged | “Townsend dollars” and C. C. Flem- ing, the sixty-three-year old unem- ploved orchard worker who was the | recipient of $200 presented him after @ nopular vote at a dance here Sa. urday night as the first practical Townsend plan® experiment, whirled dizzily about town at a dizzy pace testing the plan. Fleming went into the third day of his spending spree with haber- dashers and a women'’s clothes shop at the top of his shopping list. He spent $49.50 paying bills yes- terday, with each bill bearing a tag for signatures. Every person through whose hands the bill passes also notes his 2-cent transaction tax The tag on one bill already eight signatures, and has earned 16 cents in taxes. One citizen, whose pocket four of the “Townsend dollars” had reached, paid his telephone bill with them, and at the same time, paid 8 cents tax into the glass jar which every business is keeping handly for “Townsend dollar” taxes. Another customer promptly re- ceived the four Townsend dollars change for a $5-dollar bill, then paid one of the Townsend dollars back on a small account, plus the 2-ronts tax. Fleming is alréady receiving vol- uminous fan mail from all over the country. And Chelan, small orchard town with a 1400 population, is making the newspaper headlines. ————— L ) AT THE HOTELS | S B s i i s R Gastineau Mrs. George S. Maynard, Nome; Miss Mildred K. Maynard, Nome; Mr. and Mrs. John F. Devine, Nome; Milda Isaacson, Fairbanks; Hans Tilleson, Fairbanks; Mr. and Mrs. R. M .Anderson, Flat; D. B. Camp, Ncme; John H. Forsberg, Nome; William J. Stephenf;, Los Angeles; J. Rox Peterson, Fairbanks; Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Ross, Fairbanks; Jerry Jones, Fairbanks; Walter Hall, Fairbanks; J. C. McDonald, Juneau; N. J. Beaudin, Juneau. Alaskan Miss M. P. Burkhart, Tee Harbor; E:ther Orcutt, Wrangell; John Jess, Juneau; J. Modesto, Mendenhall. Zynda Tolbert Scott, Nome; Miss Mar- garet Scott, Nome; John Lichten- berg, Nome; Andrew Nerland, Fair- banks. 2 ——————— More than half a million dollars changed hands in horse trading at Texas race tracks this year, accord- in3 to Mrs. E. H. Thweatt, secretary of the state racing commission The mint reports that almos! 500,000,000 coins were minted during the first 10 months of 1936, an all time high. Appeals toBuild Safeguards Against Any Further Depression WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—“Fur- er and substantial gains” in the economic welfare of the nation were experienced in 1936, and “it seems as |if we lock forward with confi- |dence” to continued progress in iwa?:' Secretary Perkins said in a formal statement “If the great depression through |which we have passed had been a | scourge typhus or some other |plague, we would be thinking now |about the means to make another such scourge impossible. | “So we should be exploring and |planning in the public interest with “lll(' end in view of forging in ad- {vance every possible device of pre- |paredness and prevention lany possible recurrence of wide- [spread omic disaster and. the |unemployment and suffering which |come in its wake. This, I recom- {me is what we as a people must through cooperation 1 of do consciously this year. “There should also be cooperation during 1937 between workers a employers in terms of honoroble and competent bargaining between the groups of equal influence and re- sponsibility. “There can be cooperation between employers and workers and there is a great desire for such coopera- tion by both sides. But real and leffective cooperation requires terms of equal bargaining power which results from organization and rec- ognition of equality between the two parties. “We need assurance of protection of workers against the major haz- ards of modern industry, lack of earning power due to accidents, due to unemployment, and due to old ag and untimely death. These are partially provided for in the present Social Security Act. “There ought to be a permanent activity in the United States for the rehabilitation of the victims of the depression and of old-age poverty Let us not call it relief any more, let’s call it rehabilitation and re- :onstruction. If we had had a great war or a great earthquake, we should cease to think in terms of relief and begin to thing in terms of rehabili- tation and reconstruction of the vietims of these disaster A M. THACKARA DIES, NEUILLY PARIS, Jan. 19.—Alexander M. Thackara, wartime American Con- sul General at Paris, died yester- day in the American Hospital at Neuilly. He was 88 years of age. e Try an Empire ad. HA ELECTRIC WING Portable Electric DAY Machine “Safety First” OR NITE SERVICE RICE 8 AHLERS CO. Phone 34 Nite 571 Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, helps Mrs. Bertrand Snell, wife of the House minority leader, to a cup og tea at the open house reception of the Congressional Club in ‘Washington. Sert b Head |0ANNED SALM[]N{ Frank J. Wilson (above) became head of the United States secret service upon the retirement of Wil- liam H. Moran, who had held that post for 19 years. (Associated Press FEDERAL BLDG, AT ANCHORAGE, JUDGE'S URGE Hellenthal Makes Pointed Talk at Chamber of Commerce ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 19.— Judge Simon Hellenthal, of the Federal District Court, told the An- chorage Chamber of Commerce that he likes Anchorage despite it has a “dog-house court house.” Judge Hellenthal made a plea to the city to urge construction of a new Federal building. ‘There is more trial work here than any other city in the Third Division, yet you have poorer guar- ters. The fire hazard is tremendous. You must keep your stoves burning all the time in your present Federal building, and your court records may be destroyed if fire occurs; also all land titles and other records lost,” said Judge Hellenthal in his plea. SHIPMENTS AR AGAIN HELD UP e e 3 [Dispute Over Wages Pre- vents Removal of 5,- 000,000 Cases SEATTLE, Jan. 19—A dispute over wages between the pier operators and the International Longshore- mens’ Association has prevented the removal of the remainder of the 5,000,000 cases of canned salmon released last Saturday as tair car- go. Only one carload is reported to have ‘been moved. BARN DANCE NEXT FRIDAY Catholic Youths Plan Start of Social, Athletic Activities Opening their program of social and athletic activities, the Catho- lic Youths, recently organized here, will give & barn dance in Parish Hall next Friday night. The hall is to be decorated in a symphony of blue and ambey lights blended with streamers of the same color scheme. Special features of intermission singing, by Miss Betty Goodman, prize spotlight waltz and fox-trot contests are scheduled by the em- tertainment committee. The stage has been converted into 1 trellised orchestra pit of blue, gold and silver, from which Dave Bur- nett, saxaphonist; Art Dennis, gui- tarist; Bob Hamilton, drummer and with Louis Anderson at the piano will furnish music for the evening. Arrangements have been made with the Service Electric Shop to install a public address tem. e e Texas led all other states in AAA rental and benefit payments, re- ceiving about 11 per cent of the na- tional total. COMMANDER, PATROL BOAT ALERT, DIES | i Sl | Chief Boatswain Hans Han- son Passes Away Sud- denly at Ketchikan KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 19— | Chief Boatswain Hans Hanson, aged | con ding the Coast Guard ! rol boat Alert, died suddenly in| fkan Hospital at one o'- morning as the result of | ck of the heart or from wife entered the same pital at 6 o'clock this morning | ting her fifth child. | oatswain Hanson has been sta- | tioned here for the past three ars and was previously on the| Thompson Heads a at Seattle, Cahokia at Eu-| . Tamaroa at San Pedro ana| Washington Bureau | [ reka, Saukee at Key West, Florida. | [ KNOWN IN JUNEAU Boatswain Hanson is well-known by many in Juneau which port he ed during his command of e Alert. He was first assigned to the Alert in 1934. i | { HEART KTTACK (= O (ILLS ALASKA | Astoria Hotel in New York City. Frances Arnold (left), Mrs. James W. Gerard, and Basil 0’Connor, former law partner of the President, are shown as they made plans for the forthcoming birthday ball for President Roosevelt at_the Waldorf- FORMER SPEAKER BACK IN JUNEAU ;FGRLEGELATURE Andrew Nerland of Fair- banks, Dean of House, Re- ports Good Season in 4th Having the distinclion of being LINE PURSER Harold C. Hughes, Native Son of Seattle, Dies— :he only Republican elected in the Fourth Division and one of elected in the entire Territory to the Legislature, the other being Harry Race of Ketchikan, Representative Andrew Nerland of Fairbanks, cne of Alaska’s best known pioneers is back in Juneau to serve in the House of Representatives. Away back in 1917, Mr. Nerland Appointed Senator | two | Officer on Aleutian SEATTLE, Jan. 19.—Harold C. Hughes, 42, purser of the S. S. Aleu- tian, died here last night of a heart Milo M. Thompson (above), exec- utive assistant to the general man- ager of The Associated Press, has been named chief of the Washing- started coming to the Lvegxslntuyel Herbert to represent the Fourth Division in| the House. In 1921 he was Speaker. | At each of the other sessions he has Hitchcock (above), 60, South Dakota Democratic state chairman, was appointed United ton bureau, succeeding Byron Price, States senator by Gov. Tom Berry ck. Hughes, who had many friends here and in Alaska, was a native of Seattle, son of the late P. D. Hughes. While attending the University of Washington, he was active in or- ganizing crew activities of the school. He was Seattle agent for the Puget i ation Company, before k for the Alaska Steam- ship Company, eight years ago. He was also a former official of the Los Angeles Steamship Company. who becomes executive news edi- tor of the organization. (Associated Press ‘Photo) TOLBERT SCOTT PROPOSES TAX Patrick, 6, and two sisters survive R e him, presentative Believes | Eiimination of Assessment | i Would Promote Industry | A P ROTARY CLUB MEETS TODAY Ed Shaffer Introduced as tne Legisiature. g — Visit- | Mr. Scott, a widely known mining ] NCW M’t:mber Vls“ }mnn in the Second, says that the ors Are Present jconcensus of prospectors and min- |{ing men in his Division is that too Rotarians met at noon today at often the assessment work doesn't the Terminal Cafe for their regu-|mean anything. The claim holder lar weekly luncheon and program. merely does some sort of work on J. B. Burford, Chairman, introduced his property in order to retain his| Miss Minnie Dooley, from Cordova, Tights. Tco often, he said, it is work ,who played a violin solo accom- Wiich would be useless toward ac- panied by Miss Louise Kolitsch on|tually developing his property. Thus, the piano. | many of the miners feel they would | 1t is the custom for every member |father pay a small tax of perhaps {of the Rotary Club to give his life|$20 @ year or thereabouts to keep | history at one meeting before Ro-‘::;e:; claims than to do assessment i;;;;a:l:m!ihzgl‘;;yéxthm ey iz He believes, also, that it would| ! It | Ed Shafer of the Sanitary Meat|iorc 10 cause those Who hold large |Company, was introduced as a new | tua] development work or relinquish member of the Club. Lt. G. W. Col'ltheir rights. A small tax on mining claims in-| stead of the $100 a year assessment ' work is a proposal the residents of ithe Second Division favor and one which Representative Tolbert Scott | of Nome expects to introduce before | increased appreciably another sea- son. Particular activity was noted in |the Kougarok country, north of L e — T | STOCK QUOTATIONS | o it ashd o Sk i <0 \lins, a new officer on the Tallapoosa, | The Representative would turn and F. L. Biggs, former construc-|tne nroceeds of such a tax into the tion engineer of Palmer, were Visit- merritorial road fund, the money ors at the luncheon. Mr. Biges to go toward building roads in iso- plans to make his home in Juneau.|lated areas and thus facilitate min- 7 T ing operations. The cry, Mr. Scott pointed out is for roads to carry on 1development, and he believes his | 2 |plan would tend in that direction. | | It was a good season in the Second sTATEs REPURT | Division, the Representative report- fed. All operations had good returns |and considerable new development F I- 0 u D T work was done. Several new dredges and draglines went into the district !and Ohio River Surging High, Entire Nine Hundred |Nome, and much is expected of that( Elghly—Mlle COUI’S& iglest:ti;tog\sxrlng the coming summer, | | Mr. Scott, who is serving his third mf;{]‘:yl‘sggol‘%fi“;e‘:a{é dan (9—The term in the Territorial House of e o ok 8lng al a|Representatives, was accompanied to | ood stage along the entire 980 Juneau for thé session by his daugh- mile course from this city. | ter, Miss Margaret Scott. Other overburdened streams in| bt 2 o R the middle west also threaten addi- | 1 tional destruction not only to prop- erty, but to life. Eight states this morning, from| Pennsylvania to Arkansas, report | flood stages of streams. | NEW YORK, Jan. 19. — Closing | |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine . {stock today is 15, American Can 115, Legul{it_ors 7 | American " Light and Power 14%, To Visit Mine fAr}gcondn 53%, Bethlehem Stesl ,N F .da 5%, Calumet and Hecla 16%, Com- Next Fniday monwealth and Southern 3%, Gen- eral Motors 66, International Har- Members of the Territorial Legis- | vester 108, Kennecott 60, New York lature were extended an invitation |Central 43%, Southern Pacific 47%, by L. H. Metzgar, General Superin- |United States Steel 83%, United tendent of the Alaska Juneau Gold |Corporation 7%, Cities Service 4%, Mining Company, to take a trip|Bremner bid 2%, asked 3'%; Pound through the mine on Friday of this |$4.91. week, starting at 10 o'clock in the morning. DOW, JONES AVERAGES It is a biennial custom for the law-|{ The following are today's Dow, makers to be guests of the company {Jones averages: industrials 184.02, for an inspection of the mine dur-|down .93; rails 56, up .14; utilities ing the legislative session. 36.65, down .66, operations are expected to be | served, Mr. Nerland has been a leading {igure in promoting the best legislation for the good of the Territory of which he has been a resident since 1838. Fine Seasen Reported The veteran i=gisiaior repc a fine season in the Fourth Division and business on the whole good though Fairbanks and adjacent communities have felt the cramp of the maritime strike, although not to the degree that Southeast Alaska has due to the fact that the tendency in the Interior is to carry larger stocks. The last two weeks has given Fairbanks some of the most miser- able flying weather ii has had in years, he reports. During the period |the cnly airplane activity out of and | into Fairbanks was a hop to Liven- good and the arrival of a plane irom Nome. Fliers were heild to t ground by the bad weather, an ual condition in Fairbanks at 1k n of the year, when it is usually clear, ccld and excellent fly- ing weather, he said. He .Guoted Noel Wein, veteran northern bird- man, as saying it was the worst flying weather he had ever seen in that section in his many years in the north. - Mr. Nerland said that Senator John B. Powers may be detained at Fairbanks for some time before coming to Juneau for the Legisla- ture. The condition of Mrs. Powers, who suffered frozen feet recently, is not good and the Senator is stayitg with her. It is feared, he reported, that the pioneer woman may suffer the loss of both feet as a result of her trying experience. Senator Pow- ers was not advised of her true condition until he arrived in Fair- banks a few days ago, Mrs. Pow- ers having been brought into that city by plane a month previously. e Hunters reported many cases of screw-worm in deer in the Davis mountain section of Texas this year. The worms were the same type that afflict cattle and sheep. to succeed the late Senator Peter | Norbeck. (Associated Press Photo) | CONFESSES T0 'PLOT AGAINST CHILD AGTRESS Man Claims He Directed $25,000 Threat Aimed at Jane Withers 1‘ LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 19.—A | man giving his name as that of Ds vis Harris, 46, walked into the p |lice station here and confessed to | detectives that he directed the $25,- 1000 extortion and kidnap threat !against Jane Withers, juvenile pic- iLurc star. “I got the idea from reading about the threats sent to Shirley Temple and Freddie Bartholomew,” Harris told the officers. The officers said he also asserted he did not know why he did it and did not have any way of carrying out the plot. Harris was ordered held for in- vestigation. ™. Jane has been guarded since the threats were received several weeks 2go. NUDISTS! WHAT? GOODHUE, Minn,, Jan. 19—The | following appeared in the Goodhue News: “The local basketball team will wear their new shirts on Friday. The trousers have not yet arrived.” D BT G Y John Boles, the movie actor, was graduated from the University of | Texas in 1917. He was a member of the University glee club. BASKETBALL TONIGHT FIRST GAME KRAUSE vs. DOUGLAS 7: 30 SECOND GAME GRAVES vs. FIREMEN 8: School Children 15¢ Adults 25¢ 30 Juneau High School Gymnasium