The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 6, 1937, Page 2

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 6, 1937 Unemployment - Compensation ng Exnlainsd_ Law as Pertains to Alaska Was Passed by Re- cent Legislature IS THE WORD | Every State and Territory of the United States now has an uneem- ployment law which conforms with the Federal Social Security Act. The Alaska Unemployment Com- pensation Act was d by the Thirteenth Alaska Leislature, ex- & |traordinary session. To begin with let us dwell brief- upon the Federal Social Security terested in are Titles VIII and IX. Title IX of the Federal Social Se- curity Act levies on employers' ex- |cise tax on employers of eight or more individuals. The tax under Title IX for the calendar year 1936 was 1 percent, for 1937 it is 2 per- too! Granted! Trim Treds are heyond description of mere words, Their styles re cheerfully gay and stunning footwear modes you should see. made a proposition, you might say, to the different States advising them CI0 CANDIDATES "4 85205 e French Trattr VIGTORIOUS IN Given Sentence DETRUEVDTING of L@lg Death Alaska Air Transport Pilot L. F.| ’Bm came in from Ketchikan this |morning after stopping at Kake to pick up Gien Goudie, who was re- | |pairing a radio transmitter |Kake. | | Barr left again in the Jellanca : at 2 o'clock this afternoon with Hen- 3 § Defeat AFL Contesiant in|jy * poii ™ ihee. miners tor Twenty Years in Prison— Mayoralty Race—Grab |mawk miet. then Twenty Years | Council Seats { ot o 3 | CHAMBER TO VIEW DETROIT, Mich,, Oct. 6. — The | COLORED PICTURES! xancy, France, oct 6. — paul Committee for Industrial Organiza-| R Green, 22, French soldier, has been tion was successful nominating its| g wing of color pictures taken|sentenced to 20 years imprisonment candidates for Mayor and City|, "ajoc punham, Principal of the to be followed by 20 years in exile Councilmen at yesterday's non-par-| ;o oo “yrion school, this past sum-|for selling military secrets in Ger- mer in Mount McKinley National many. claimed a “substantial victory” in Park is scheduled tomorrow noon A young German, Henry Touvain, its first major political campaign.| ! i {merce luncheon meeting in Perc ail for espionage on behalf of a the fleld, but the CIO mayomlty\cmk” Several member speakers foreign power. in Exile tisan primary election here and E he Juneau Chamber of Com been sentenced to 10 years in The CIO candidates did not lead|! *® (‘””i f("' Act so that we may recognize the c‘a)ndndate: Patrick O'Brien, form;r who have just returned also are| —— relationship between the Alaska Un-|Démocratic Attorney General of the| . .qeq on the Chamber pro- ~ T T : State, beat John Smith, present i, I l) I f\l employment Compensation Act and|> . ol il g | I8N ¢ | | B & the Federal Social Security Act. '“’:d °Idn£e f:}ly f"“",c" w;“’fl"‘ DS | STOCK QUOTATIONS : endorsed by the American Federa- > Aot bt oA Y The two titles of the act which | s il 7. S e i PIEI]S wo, the genoral public, are most in.|toR Of Labor. Richard Heiding, TWO FISH CARGO L s T, 5 present City Clerk was high man ON LOCAL EXCHANGE NEW YORK, Oct. 6. sing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 12%, American Can Seventy-five hun:lx'_cd pounds of o7, American Light and Power 7, salmon were brought in on the Ju-| zpaconga 3714, Bethlehem Steel 64, neau fish exchange this morning.|c.) et 10%, Commonwealth and Sebastian-Stuart bought 4000 goihern 17, Curtiss Wright 4, pounds of salmon from the Nui-|General Motors 47%, International in the field. Reiding received 138,- 600 votes, O'Brien 99000 and| Smith 68,000. The CIO also placed five candidates on the Council among the 18 to run for the nine seats. The general election is November their comfort p]vnianllv w~|>n. and after December 31, 1937 sance, Capt. Stan Thompson, and pgrvester 88'%, Kennecott 44%, New portive. Viv Olhislh:z will be 3 percent of the employers’ i e Al a Coast Fisheries purchased york Central 257%, Southern Pacific| ord! Skilled craftsmen total payroll 00 pounds from the Rondout, 993 United States Steel 73'%, Pound working with the haeg Excise Tax TROAST RETURNS Capt. Mark Jacobs. $4.9515, Bremner bid 1 asked 3, Re- leathers have fashioned With this employers’ excise tax - _Ihv Nuisance took ice and the public Steel 22%. e in effect the Feederal Government| N. Lester Troast returned to his Tern, Capt. John Lowell. - Psychologists say infants have no DOW, JONES AVERAGES ‘The following are tod: Dow, industrials 147.18, Juneau architectural offices today aboard the Alaska, having com- |that the State whose Legislature|pleted a business trip to the west- ingr: ned fear of such things as Jones averages: passed a State Unemployment Com- |ward. snakes and thunderstorms. rails 39.89, utilities 23.21. L] pensation Act which would meet the |~ 3 T AT i T Ty T S SR U T ] T approval of the Federal Social Se- ) % 5‘*; ’ a4 Y curity Board would be entitled to " Vi, © nlfirgrfiss O nc deduct from the Federal tax levied iJe 1¥he UJ ?_,g.: CiEL o9 ° under Title IX, to the extent of 90 percent of that tax, the amount P Y e of their contributions to the State 7 L 3 Depar ent otore 2 3 e / 4 | unemployment compensation fund. | | For example, in the event the k '] thzs | Territorial ~Legislature had not i e sical pa-|passed an unemployment compen- N P A NO Y € S Ann's|sation Act which conformed with, :) OSPITAL NOTES } lerwent |the requirements of the Social Se- sspital jcurity Board, an employer of eight| » 4 n or more individuals would have | : been required to pay into the Fed- ¥ 1/eral Government a tax for the cal- ope endar year 1937 of 2 percent. ( I 1t | This money would have gone into r the Federal Treasury and no part ie Mercer, a medical patient, 'of it would have benefitted Alaska ed to the Governmentior Alaskans. By virtue of having{ an Unemployment Compensation Act in the Territory, the employer ! 15 was dismissed s gllowed to take credit for the u\x" r "} ment of 1.8 percent levied under the Un- | care employment Compensation Act for | he calendar year 1937 on the Fed- | M PI B.C. M €Dl an appen- cera] tax of 2 percent—in other| g @ St. Ann's gords, 90 percent. In short, the 61 pital employer pays 1.8 percent into the RSB Terri and .2 percent to the Fed- SHELL GOES TO ELFIN |era! Governmen Industrial Number Each liable employer will be giv- en an industrial classification num- this ber and the tax credited to his ac- § ans- | count. The Commission will use the 10 o'clock employees’ Old Age Benefit num-| and Mrs. bers and keep an accurate record of Hoonah |each employees’ wage records mmons had Carl| By the time the benefits first be- Norma come payable, which is January 1, 1939, a system of employment of- |fices will have been established | throughout the Territory to assist . |in jobs placement and benefit pay- | MOMENT . COVE AND TO HOONAH nt out ka A Dr. J. W I McEw Elfin Cove on An Edmu onesen and Hire, | When an individual becomes un- |employed he is required to register |with the employment office. The 1vmplu_\'mem office will immediately [(nrleu\'or to place the individual in| another position. If it fails to do lm within two weeks, and the indi- |vidual has met the requirements of [the Social Security Commission, he |will then be tendered a benefit| check. The amount of the check {will be based entirely upon the woxk! [record of the individual and will be lone-half of his former full-time |weekly wage, with a maximum |weekly payment of 15.00 for a per- liod not to exceed sixteen weeks. Old Age Benefits Title VIII of the Federal Social | Security Act eestablishes a system of :Ull( ze benefits This title must not be confused with unemployment |compensation as it is an entirely |different setup and is in no way connected with unémployment com- | pensation, [ Title VIII imposes a tax upon em- |ployees as well as employers to the |amount of one percent for the cal- ;l‘nrl:u' years 1937, 1938 and 1939. |'This tax will be graduated at one- |half percent every three years un- |til the total of three percent is reached. On December 31, 1948, |when the total of 3 percent will have |been reached, the employer will be paying 3 percent of his payroll and the employee 3 percent of his wage. The money collected in this man- |ner will be credifed to each em- |ployee upon whose wage the tax is imposed. The amount will accrue until the individual has reached the wge of | receive 65 years, whereupon he will a monthly old age beneefit The amount of the check U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUUTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4 p.m., Oct. 6. Rain tonight and Thursday; fresh southeast winds. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weathet 4 p.m. yest'y 30.14 47 9 El 10 H'vy Rain 4 a.m. today 30.05 49 93 SE 12 Lt. Rain Noon today 30.14 50 94 s 10 Sprkling RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. temp. Lowest 4a.m. 4a.m. Precip. 4am. Station last 24 hours temp, temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weathel Anchorage 47 | 43 — —_ 44 Barrow 32 24 24 4 0 Clear Nome 42 | 28 30 4 0 Clear Bethel 48 “ 30 30 14 01 Clear Fairbanks 48 42 42 4 22 Cloudy Dawsont 42 | — —_ — - St. Paul 48 | —_ G e - Dutch Harbor 48 | 48 48 8 .03 Cloudy Kodiak 50 48 48 4 46 Fog Cordova 50 | 48 50 12 2.90 Rain Juneau 52 I 44 49 12 262 Rain Sitka 54 | 49 —_ — 443 Rain Ketchikan 54 48 48 8 32 Rain Prince Rupert 60 50 54 10 ko Rain Edmonton 38 22 30 4 0 Cloudy Seattle 60 46 46 4 0 Cloudy Portland sz 08 48 48 4 0 Clear San Francisco ..... 70 54 54 0 0 Clear New York 70 64 66 12 41 Cloudy Washington .12 64 66 4 18 Cloudy WEATHER CONDITIONS AT 8 A.M. TODAY Seattle (airport), foggy, temperature 44; Blaine, clear, 40; Victoria, clear, 45; Alert Bay, clear, 3§; Bull Harbor, cloudy. 46; Prince Rupert, raining, 52; Triple \Island, raining; Langara Island, misting, 55; Ket- chikan, raining, 50; Craig, misting, 55; Wrangell, raining, 52; Peters- !burg. raining, 50; Sitha, raining, 51; Radioville, raining, 48; Juneau, raining, 50; Skagway, cloudy, 51; Tenakee, raining; Hawk Inlet, rain- ing; Hoonah, partly cloudy; Soapstone Point, raining, 46; Cordova, rain- ing, 51; Chitina, cloudy, 46; McCarthy, cloudy, 40; Portage, raining, 48; Anchorage, cloudy, 45; Fairbanks, raining, 40; Nenana, raining; Hot Springs, raining, 38; Tanana, cloudy, 34; Ruby, clear, 30; Nulato, clear, 26; Kaltag, clear, 28; Flat, cloudy, 30; Ohogamute, clear, 28. Juneau, Thursday, Oct. 7.—Sunrise, 6:16 a.m.; sunset, 5:19 p.m. | WEATHER SYNOPSIS Storm areas continued over the northeastern portion of the North Pacific Ocean, one being a short distance south of Kodiak where a pressure of 29.20 inches prevailed and another over the Aleutians a short distance west of Atka where a pressure of 29.50 inches was re- ported. High barometric pressure prevailed from Southeast Alaska southward to California, the crest being 30.44 inches at the Seattle airport. This general pressure distribution has been attended by pre- |cipitation along the coastal regions from the Aleutians to the northern |portion of British Columbia, also over portions of the interior of Al- aska, and by fair weather over the remainder cf the field of obser- {vation. : | It was cooler last night over the Bering Sea region. . rgrounds for divorce where hereto- slreamll"a | fore there existed only one— | adultary. “By many standards New York is a hundred years behind the times in its divorce laws,” the lawyer de- clared, and added: “Sooner or later it will realize you have got to make laws to alleviate human suffering, and incompatibil- Divorce Gourts .Predicta[ : ity is a human suffering.” KANSAS CITY, Oct. 6.—A day of | |streamlined divorce courts to bring |them intd tempa with a modern - - Falling Pants {“speedy civilizatton,” was pictured g lat a national conference on uni- |form state laws. ave urg ar | “Our divorce laws are the result |of completely outmoded religious " declared Albert Douglass |Ayres, 63-year-old veteran attorney LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 6.—"My pants fell down or I'd have killed lof Reno’s famed divorce courts. him.” | But indications show a trend to- This was Jack J. Casson’s ex- ward broader divorce laws in New | planation for the escape of a bur- | York—which supplies nine-tenths |glar, |of Reno’s “quickie” divorce cases—!| (Casson was asleep in the rear of land in other states. When that time' his jewelry store when the burglar |comes Reno will lose its reputation|shattered a plate glass window. |as the “divorce center of the coun- The jeweler, clad in pajamas, \try,” he said. leaped from his bed, grabbed a gun | “Things are different today. Our and fired two shots. Then he ran [civilization is a speedy one,” con-|into the street and saw the suspect |tinued the lawyer who has handled | getting into a car. 12,000 successful divorce cases in| I raised the gun and took tare- |Reno. ful aim” he said “but before I could | “There once was a time when a pull the trigger I stubbed my toe ‘bay and girl got married and had nothing except hopes and ambi- |tions. But in modern civilization a person changes his mind with great and my pajama pants fell down. By the time I got my pants back in place the thief was gone with $150 worth of jewelry he took from You mz’gbt be standing right next to the most attrac- tive person you ever met, but you don’t know it until you are introduced . .. until you get acquainted. And you don’t know how much pleasure a cigarette can give until some- body offers you a Chesterfield. Certainly this is true: Chesterfields are refreshingly milder. . . they've got a taste that smokers like. will be |earned basedupon the total wages by such individual. S ‘L & FOSS RETURNS ON ALASKA THIS A. M. Returning from a three week's business trip to the Westward, Har- B. Foss, Juneau architect, ar- ed here this morning aboard the YWSES old hocking pink™ i shades of pink Flannel is the fab: ikes th ¢ 1all blous neckline, and vivid hat is accented with by Schieparelli, < by 55 has been in Anchorage Seward, engaged in prelimin- ry PW.A. work in the latter city. at the crown Copyright 1937, LioesTT & Myzrs Topacco Co, rapidity, and very often.” | Ayres said the impending swing e to liberalized marital laws is now| A political party known as the shown “when we see the parliament Farmers' Alliance was influential in of staid old England adding new the South and West in 1800. J. P. Williams Yon are Invited to present vais coupon at the box office of the Capitol Theatre and receive tickets for your- self and a friend or relative to see “Night W aitress” As a paid-up subscriber of The Daily Alaska Empire Good only for curreni offering. Your Name May Appear Tomorrow WATCH THIS SPACE the window.” Let Us Check It for Winter— il . - " - o Ay