The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1939, Page 8

HOUSE BLASTS . AT RAILROAD, HIGHWAY TOLL Col. Ohlson Draws Indig- nant Outbursts from Representatives , Hope was expressed in the House 6f Representatives this morning by Representative Spencer, during the dourse of debate over a $25.000 pro- test-appropriation for payment of ederal tolls on the Richardson §u;hwa,\x that “If we protest enough naybe we can get rid of Col Ohlson, and the tolls. rid of both of them.’ The measure, House Bill No. 30, in- troduced by Lander, asks $25,000 to pay tollage levied on truck freight over the Richardson Highway, Land- er explaining: “We've memorialized Congress and memorialized them. It doesn't seem to do any good. If we could pass this measure, maybe somebody would listen.” Tt was charged by Lander, saying the tolls were levied only on the Tansna River ferry near Fairbanks, that the rate is “over nine dollars a | ton, and only for the purpose of trying to freeze competition with the Government Railroad.” Introduction of the measure brought a storm of condemnation of | the rajlroad management from all corners of the floor and a mild de- | fense from Representatives desiring | to kill the bill before it got too far, | but unwilling to stand before me‘l wrath of Fairbanks Represenmuves‘ who said “the toll is discrimination | against the people of Fairbanks, unheard of in like circumstances anywhere in the States, and works a definite hardship on the city of| Pairbanks.” Representative Davis, of the First Division, expressed his thought that the bill “should pass,” on thel grounds that “The Federal Govern- ment is doing just what our En- abling Act forbids us to do—levy tolls | on any roads.” | Fourth Division Rogge suggested | Colonel Ohlson, General Manager of the Alaska Railroad, “should pay some of this, He's got lots of money.” | Fourth Division Spencer charged | that Col. Ohlson, and the Richard- | son tolls, “should be gotten rid of,” | further said in bitter tones, “Ohlson | is running the railroad and river boats down the Tanana for his own | gain. He has mining properties in the Flat district, ships mining ma-, chinery down the Tanana from Ne- nana all the way to Holy Cross, and at the same freight rate as from Nenana to Fairbanks on the rail- Also, Spencer sugested “perhaps, as long as the toll is collected on the Tanana River at McCarty, may- be the Territory ought to put in its own ferry.” Senator Hofman of Seward, al- legedly a “friend” of Col. Ohlson, according to a Representative that asked him to “step forward and de- fend the Colonel,” smilingly replied that “I am perhaps one of the best lay lawyers in the country, but I am net good - enough ‘to defend Col. Ohison.” i A motion to lay the bill on the table carried, ten to six. REPUBLICANS | GET TOGETHER Annual Lincoln Day Dinner| Will Be Given Next Saturday Night The Republicans of Juneau and% Douglas will hold the annual Lin- coln Day Dinner next Saturday. The event will be held in the Parlors of the Methodist Episcopal church and| dinper will be served starting| promptly at 6:30 o'clock in order that plenty of time will be given to speech making. Howard D. Stabler will be toast- master at the affair and the chief speaker of the evening will be Ter-| ritorial Senator LeRoy M. Sullivan,| the lone Republican in the present | Legislature. Tickets are on sale by prominent | Republicans but reservations must | |River span winds up a three-year $1,050,000 bridge building program on the Alaska Railroad line. Two others opened to traffic are the Knik River and Moose River cross- |ings, aggregating an expenditure in Jthe neighborhood of $550,000. be made by Friday evening at the| latest to ascertain the number of | set-ups for the dinner. s ——— Creamery butter produced in Nova | Scotia in October totaled 528,000 ‘pounds, ¥, . .AD‘MISQON $1.00— Lillian 1% 1 hope we can get i~ | The completion of the Matanuska Senate (Some Absent) Debates on Hopkins With hands ou(st.r_ewhed. Senator Gillette, of Iowa, tells his colleagues—those who are present—that he would vote to confirm Hany Hopkins, as secretary of commerce, though he would be the “last man” he would choose if he were president. Hovkins led an unsuccessful “purge” aeainst Gillette last November. /COTTON SURPLUS ~ NOW BOTHERING DIXIE_PLANTERS |South However Sees Hope in Three Different Directions ATLANTA, Feb. 7.—Dixie's cot- | ton planters, who are logking for | new or increased uses of their pro- ,000-bale carry-over from last looking hopefully in ast three directions. cord in making automobile tires. Last year this accounted for $20,- }(:(10 000 worth of lint. A promising ?dmeiupment is a new high density ord perfected by a large tire | ifacturer. Already more than 18,000,000 miles of cord has been pun by the new method, | Another potential outlet is use tof cotton cloth as a binder in the building of bitominoos roads. Ex- ‘;g-nmums in this are being con- ducted in 22 states. The South alone has something like 1,000 miles of cotton roads. A third increased use IN A FIGHTING MOCOD, whispers a sw secret (how much hie wants) to Mike Jacobs while Manager Ancil | Hoffman cocks a lis z . e, mentioning Lou Nova, Galento and Joe Louis, hopes the fingers stand for 5400040, NEW $500,000 " New Method fo " BRIDGE BUILT Handle Juvenile 'Law Breakers CAMPBELL, ET Feb. BY ALASKAR.R. SR tice John Blaine has his own idea {of handling juvenile law breakers. M a ' a nu S k a River Spa" : Instead of jail sentences he gives Completed Last Week | fer s e o s Complefes Program ¢ |ination on what they have learned. | A favorite work in this regard is Longfellow's “Hiawatha.” Jus- tice Blaine says it accents the rit-| uals with which Indian tribes| marked a boy's coming of age and the self discipline necessary for is the Approximately 4,- annually may be irequired for filling an Agricul- | tural Adjustment Administration | program that calls for the wrap- | ping of 1,000,000 bales of cotton in | cotton bagging - STRICKEN BULLETIN—VATICAN CITY Italy, Feb. 7.—Pope Pius was late today stricken with a mild attack of influenza, the Vatican News Service reports. An aggravated chronic attack of asthma has compelled the Pope to “take all precautions.” The Pcpe is nearly 82 years of age. tead of jute, | 500,000 pounds 7.—~Jus- Construction work on the latest bridge link on the Alaskan Railroad was finished last week with the completion of the $500,000 structure duct to aid them in combating aj at| | One is increased use of cotton; making of bagging from cotton in-| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, FEB. 7, 1939. : To Head Curb Ma;t—[ 'PAXSON-TO-PARK " HIGHWAY ASKED, HOUSE MEMORIAL Coffey WanENew Road i Constructed Through | Big Mineral Area A House Joint Memorial, No. 25, was introduced yesterday in the House of Representatives by Repre- ntative Coffey, urging highways from the Richardson Highway to the Gov't. Railroad. The measure @isks that one road begin on the Richardson ‘Highway at Paxon, approximately halfway from Valdez to Fairbanks, and pro- ceed across country from there to Mount McKinley Park, a straight | line distance on the map of about | 80 miles. | In the memorial, Coffey i the Palmer colony “a success,” with | future growth of market for its | produce dependant on new industries in the reglon. | With that keynote, the memorial | proposes not only a road from Pax- | son to Mount McKinley, but also | proposes a road from Palmer to | Copper Center, traversing an area of 1150 miles of rich mineral lands and | opening a new and bright-futured | area for the Palmer-Anchorage sec- tion. labels Climax of a Horatio Alger career comes to Clarence A. Bettman (above) with his nomination as first/ chairman of the board of governors of the New York Curb Exchange. A native of Hoboken, N, J., the broker started his career in the market just thirty years ago as a runner, rising’ vapidly to his present prominence in Wall Street. TTOD AY | LYNG ASKS FOR ;' g GUARD STATION HOUSE | | Bills Introduced House Joint Memorial 26, by Cof- foy, acking abolishment of fish traps. House Bill 51, by Anderson, for a ‘Territorial referendum on the ques- tion of Territorial liquor stores. House Joint Memorial 27, Lyng, | asking a new Coast Guard station | at Nome. Bills Passed Senate Bill 15, appropriating re- lief money to Fred W. Wagner. Senate Bill 2, a bill defining the Territorial copyright law. el | " Stock QUOTATIONS ,I ‘ . o { | S | i NEW YORK, Feb. 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 9%, American Can | 94%, American Light and Power 3%, Anaconda 28%, Bethlehem Steel 667, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright common 7, Cur- | tiss Wright A 25%, General Motors | 46%, International Harvester 57, | Kennecott 37, New York Central 18, | Northern Pacific 11%, Southern Pa- | cific 167, United States Steel 58%, Bremner bid % asked 1%, Pound| $4.68 13/16. | | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 144.10, rails 39.94; utilities 34.92. ———————— ESTEBETH STILL DOCKED AT HOONAH Shortly after 9 o'clock this morn- ing, a radiophone from the mail ves- sel Estebeth, returning to Juneau from Sitka, stated she attempted to | Iget to Funter from Hoonah again | today, but turned around at Rocky; Island as a north wind was blowing | about 35 miles an hour and the sea | was heavy. The Estebeth scooted right back to Hoonah awaiting mod- eration in the winter spell. mannood. ———e— over Matanuska River. The bridge of two 250-foot spans, replaces an old wooden crossing which had been there since the road was built. The project occupied some 11 months of labor for a crew of 25, men. ) e | | (OLD WEATHER-wOW! | ... FREEZE- Coldest temperature in exactly a year was experienced in Juneau at | 7 o'clock this morning when the velocity of 28 miles per hour at 91 With the exception of some diffi- Cash payment is required culty occasioned by the annual over- flow of Matanuska River, due to melting waters in Knik Glacier the work proceeded without mishap. official U, S. Weather Bureau read- | ing was 28 degrees above zero. Exactly the same temperature was‘ recorded here on February 7, 1838, | exactly a year ago today. | Wind continued to blow out of | the North today, with a maximum | owners. 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In representing the need for the station because of Nome's isolated position and exposed location in a storm area, Lyng asked that a Coast Guard airplane be also based at the staticn, to fill the need for frequent sending of emergency assistance to remote villages. Nome had a station for 29 years, until it burned in the September fire of 1934. e e BIG TIME—PIONEERS Tonight the Pioneers entertain the Legislators and their wives at the joint session with the Auxilary in the Odd Fellows Hall. The business meetings will start at 7:30 o'clock and the big doings will start one hour later. Committees of the Pioneers Igloo and the Auxiliary plan a lively ses- sion for the Legislators. TODAY in the SENATE Introduced Senate bill No. 33, by Patterson. regulating licensing of the sale of | liquor. | Senate bill No. 34, by Cochran, | providing a method of adjudging habitual drunkards. dealing with inheritance taxes. Senate bill No. 36, by Walker, pro- hibiting liquor dispensaries within 1200 feet of school or churches. Senate joint memerial No. 5, by Rivers, urging Congress to adopt a | | resolution setting forth a policy of development as the aim of the Al- aska Railroad. Senate joint memorial No. 6, by Rivers, urging Congress to empower the Legislature to tax Indian co- | | operative canneries. Senate joint memorial No. 7, by | Rivers, requesting the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate rates charged by Alaska ships. Senate joint memorial No. 8, by Hofman, urging Congress to auth- orize U. S, Postmasters in the Terri- tory to take acknowledgements of | oaths, ete. Passed House bill 14, by Committee on Way and Means, appropriating funds to cover departmental defic- iencies. Committee substitute for Senate joint memorial No. 2, urging wolf control in National Park and Na- tional Monuments. Defeated House joint memorial No. 2, by Drager, providing for doing away with dificiencies. | American butter stocks in Novem- ber, 1938, were estimated at 193,000,- 000 pounds, 75,000,000 pounds above normal. \ | IVE P Worries LONDON, Feb. 7—Property own- ers in England who maintain quaint cottages and houses with “thatched” roofs are worried over the dearth of expert thatchers. A survey reveals that there are Senate bill No. 35, by Cochran,|only 400 straw thatchers in the coountry, and another 130 “reed” thatchers in Norfolk. Most of these workers are old men. It is feared that unless young pecple learn the industry the pic- turesque thatched roof will gradu- ally disappear DID YOU SAY: COLD? Here's Your Answer! 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