The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 1, 1939, Page 8

HOUSE BEATS CLOCK AFTER HOT SESSION Stormy Night Meeting Is Hard on Gavel-Senate Sent Sea of Bills (Continue¢ from Page One) s L resentatives leaped . into the fray with bitterness and abandon on the forty-page Workmen's Compen- sation Bill which makes the act compulsory and sets up a long scale of benefits for injuries and deaths. Laborite backers of the measure frustrated once in putting the meas- ure through the House “for a fair test” in the Senate, because oppon- ents of the bill discovered the meas- ure was not legally drawn, faced the same battle as previously when this fact was dicovered yesterday and the bill was continued in second reading for revision. Admitting the difficulty of thor- oughly revising the bill, Represen- tative Drager offered amendment to the bill to clarify the situation. With some members disgruntled | over actions on previous measures, some worried about pet bills so far down the calendar they stood danger | of not getting under the wire, and | some just sore at the world. intro- | duction of this weight and con- | troversial measure set off heavy fire- works. ! Fireworks on 37 ! Opponents and proponents, shout- | Mayor kdward Stiling It was “Hail and Farewell!” as A Pullman Porter The President President Roosevelt left train at Florida City, Fla., to motor to Key West to board cruiser Houston en route to war games of the U. S. fleet in the Caribbean. Ma\or Edward Stiling of the southern Florida community shakes hands with F. D. R. a porter looks on in this Phonephoto, * “Storm Troopers” Beat Man at Bund Rally ing at each other, brought a protest | from Representative Coffey, * who | ghouted, “Let's stop this gulnd-l standing or clear the gallery!™ i ‘When Representative Smith was | faced by a motion from Represen- | tative Gordon to lay the bill on the | table, he injected the objection he | hds used in several occasions that ! “the motion is not put in good faith,”’ and Speaker Lyng once again bang- | ed his gavel, rising to his feet. More Ui | “That’ll be enough of that!"” Speak- | er Lyng said, “You stop impugning theé motives of other Legislators here | or I'll have you removed. I'm run- ning this House, not you!” “I .have a right to my convic- tions!” Smith shouted, laking his seat, _Gordon then moved to refer the hijl to committee for ‘proper draft- ing” and Representative Drager rose in protest, followed by Repre- sentative Davis, “Be a Gentleman! Both men spoke volubly for a moment until Drager turned. red faced, to Davis, and shouted, “Mr. Davis! Be a gentleman, please!” And Speaker Lvng's gavel came down again with a ruling that Lrager should have the floor for three minutes. ® The motion to refer the bill to @omimittee again, foiled, 9 to 7, and Representative Coffey again rose in &n attempt to pour oil on the troubled waters, but was interrupted by a “crack” from Representative MéECuteheon, at a neighboring desk hehind Coffey. Coffey wheeled on McCutcheon and yelled, “Mr, McCutchoen, please keep quiet while I'm talking!” And Speaker Lyng's gavel came down heavily again. 4 Spencer Revolts Oh a motion then to place the bilkdn third reading for final pass- age, Representative Spencer staged # revolt when he refused to. sit down at Speaker Lyng's request whep Lyng was calling for the ques- tion. “Bit. down, Mr. Spencer,” said Lyng quietly, but firmly. .M won't sit downl” answered Mzx. Spencer, “I have the floor!” “Do you want me to get hard hoiled?” asked Lyng, rising from the rostrum. Representative Spencer yielded. Representative Davis moved to present a several page breakdown study of the bill made over Sunday, but Representative Martin, castiray &n apprehensive eye over his should- er at the clock, objected. However, the material was intro- duceéd by a 9-7 vote and a recess was called. Returning from recess a motion to lay Davis' breakdown on the table carried, 13 to 8, and the measure finally reached a vote. Passed, But— The bill passed, 9 to 7, with Davis | voting “yes,” but complicating the picture by giving notice of reconsid- eration of his vote “so we can study this bill .thoroughly.” Chiropractie Worn eout after the fifteen minute turmoil compeénsation * bill, then passed the bill setting up a Board of:Chiiropractie that will ex- amine members of this practice be- fore Territorial license is issued. Women’s Home House Joint Resolution 5, by Mc- Cutcheon, to put $20,000 of Terri- torial money each year in a build- hour over and the ing fund for a Pioneers’ Home for| Women, passeed fiften to one. Holiday House Bill 77, making Armistice Day a legal school holiday, passed. Buy Springs House Bill 119, by Davis, to auth-' orize $20000 for the purchase of the Godderd Hot Springs for a mg;m’ waerl Home and “u- ture " thberculosis sanflarfum, and $20,000. for repairs and mainten- jpnce, passed ‘11-t0 9 after § light, |a tuberculosis standpoint Representatives | also | Pclice and uniformed German-American Bund bum, who had jumped on the stage during a bund rajly at Madison Square vanced toward Fritz Kuhn (left, on and beat him severely befc though lengthy, discussion of the measure. Harry G. Watson, Secretary to the Governod, spoke in behalf of the bill, explaining that a static waiting list of approximately 30 men has been keeping the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka over crowded, and that, if enlargement of Pioneers’ Home quarters are to be made, the Goddard - Springs could take care of the overflow until construction work is completed. Sanitarium Watson, who is President of the Alaska Tuberculosis Association, also spoke in favor of the measure from on the conviction that, should the Territory desire to participate in the broad Federal plan for hospitalizing tuber- culars, it would probably be possible to gain large funds if the Territory has: something in the way of a The fact that the Goddard estate 14 miles out of Sitka, has hot springs and is isolated, was offered | as evidence by Watson that a tuber- cular sanitarium at this location would be advisable. H. R. VanderLeest, Treasurer of | the Board of Trustees of the Pion- eers’ Home, was also called to the| floor to explain the overflow of pioneers waiting for admission to the Home. | Eiler Hansen, Superintendent of the Pioneers’ Home, spoke briefly on the matter of the Goddard estate and its use by pioneers during the construction of the present new home at Sitka. | E. M. Goddard, son of Mrs. Fred Goddard, who holds the springs es-| tate, now, explained the nature of the 28 acres of patented land, the {town a half-story building, the hot isprings and other phases of the estate. i “Watch-Dog” of the Treasury | Rogge, injected humor into the discussion when he asked God- dard “if the Territory couldn’t buy this place on time.” Insane Trials Next bill on the calendar to be disposed of, was House Bill 102, | giving attorneys for defense in trial of insane, three preemptory chal- {lenges. The bill passed Territorial Leaves Territorial employees will get ac- jcumulative vacation and sick leave up to sixty days, if Speaker Lyng's | House Bill. 100 passes the Senate as easily as did the House. Lyng said the plan would merely give Territorial employees the same {benefits enjoyed by Federal em- ployees. | Mayor vs. Council A change in municipal govern- that passed, 11-5. The measure, supported . by request, by Senator Walker, takes municipal office ap- police got him away. ment is proposed in House Bill 139, | struggled over Isadere Greep- arden, New York, and national bund leader. te Treopers” fioored Greenbum Scme 1,500 pelice were on duty at the Garden to guasd against just such incidents. (center), torm Trocpers ostrum), L AN pointive power from the City Coun- anor for peddlers to agme | jcil, and vests that power in the 1 private premises without §in- Mayor, whose appeointments are in ation, passed 9 to 7, withgu- turn subject o confirmation by the neau attorney H. L. Faull T speaking in behalf of for the Juneau Chamber merce. Council Reason for the change, Senator Walker said, “is to give the Mayer a chance to get men in office he can work with.” Representative John McCormick, Juneau City Councilman, voted against the measure. Rererencums Another municipal measure with reference to initiatives and referen- dums, passed, requiring petitioners to submit a list of signers equal to percent of the voters at the previous election. Piano House Bill 142, passed by the House last night, appropriates $500 of Com- Anchcerage Hoeme Last measure of the night to be handled, was House Bill 39, killed by an eleven-five vote, that would have appropriated $225,000 for Pioneer Home at Anchorage men and women Discussion on this reached new heights in Divisional “poosting,” with Third Divisioners and Rogge, Fourth Division Repre- sentative, citing the beauties and attractions of the Hub City, while Pirst Division Representatives €x- tolled the virtues of Sitka vege- for 25 25 for a plano to brighten the lives taples, clam beds, and equable cli- of Pioneer Home residents. mate. » Search noney Beauty Shops House Bill 143, introduced by un- Shortly before recessing for sap- animous consent last night and per, Representatives passed h'nvv‘ passed an hour later, gives J. C. House Bill 120, revising the set=up Strand, Eric Todal and Al Munson of the Board of Cosmetology. $66 for expenses incurred in the Travel Money y search for the missing vessel Vir- | In the wake of this "beauty shop” ginia. bill, much punned over, Represen- Radio Subsidy tatives then killed House Bill 123, The radio subsidy bill, House which would have appropriated $1,- Bill 56, appropriating $14,400 for 29298 for the expenses of Murray ‘dissemination of information” over 'Hall, Alaska's first aeronautics in- radio stations at Ketchikan, Ju- spector, incurred in traveling to neau and Anchorage, passed, 12 to and from Alaska. 4 Hall was a Federal official, but Peddler Bill his traveling expenses were not House Bill 91, imposing heavy | paid, for either him or his family licenses on peddlers and itinerant land househcld goods. merchants and making it a mis-| Legislators refused to myfilb& % S ATTENTION! HOTEL & RESTAURANT EMPLOYEES - LOCAL 871 Special Meeting Friday-March 3-7:30 P. M. | A.F.ofL.Hall—114-2nd Street ‘ All Members Are Requested to Attend Secretary, JERRY MILLER EARL FORSYTHE (Signed) : | President, | | the measure | al measure | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1939. As President Embarked for War Games BIG SNOWSLIDE AGAIN BLOCKS ROAD TO THANE Bureau of Pu blic Roads| Crew Working to Clear Lane for Traffic Another large snowslide today blocked the Thane road and brought out Bureau of Public Roads men with clearing equipment Juneau garbage dump in what is known as Snowslide Gulch, blocking the highway there for 300 feet This afternoon a crew wa working to clear a lane for t Roads men had to work gingerly for fear of bringing down a new slide when the present one is cleared away ‘ihill in the last two sessions also, |on the grounds that the expense ‘w;\:, not the Territory’'s. | Banks House Bill 66, appropriating $5,- 000 for inspection of Banks in Al- aska by the Territorial Board's chosen examiner. Overtime Two minor bills passed in the | afternoon were, House Bill 128, setting. up a three percent license tax on credit bureaus, and House Joint Resolution 6 appropriating $500 for each house of the Legis- lature for payment of overtime to employees. Labor measure Another labor bill getting through | the House, was House Bill 138, by | Walker, which “provides for safety l of emplcyees in hazardous occup: viola- [tions” and makes employer | tions punishable of fine up to 11.000. The wording is general in the; | measure. i says “employers shall | take eve 1 precaution to ) incure the safety of employees.” Midnight Finis When Representatives finally ‘push?d back their hair '\nd \snzughl"m-d their ties at midnight |after the hectic day and night rush §m beat the Senate deadline, the |House was adjourned until 2 o'- cloc}. this afternoon. - (URB NOW SOUGHT INCOME PUBLICITY| ! it | WASHINGTON, March 1.—Repre- sentative Robert Dioughton, Demo- I erat, of North C { the House Way nd Means Commit- | tee. has introduced a bill to prevent | publication by the treasury of in- {ccmes of persons earning less than | $75,000 in 1937. Last Congress he obtained appro- |val to raise the publicity minimum {on incomes from $15,000 to $75,000, {on the grounds that the information was being used by individuals and organizations as a “sucker list” to | “shakedown” persons of large in- comes, But the new law applied to in- comes in 1938 and thereafter and | failed to reach those whose incomes | were less than $75,000 in 1937. The | treasury is now ready to submit in- | formation on all those making more | than $15,000 in 1937, RE IN HALL An overheated stove caused a slight blaze at 9 o'clock last night in the Salvation Army Hall. The Fire Department was out from the station about 15 minutes. No dam- age resulted from the blaze. D SILVER CITY, Nev. March Margaret . and Erskine Caldwell, author Tobacco Road” were married sterday. Both were divorced R { The slide occurred just below the | Banking | wrolina, Chairman of | Bourke White, photogra- | TODAY in the SENATE Introduced Senate Bill No. 99, by Rivers and | LaBoyteaux, appropriating $70,000 | for a University of Alaska building | program. } ‘r 1 1 ! Passed | Senate Bill No. 55, by Rivers, set- |ting license taxes on construction !firms and banks. Senate Bill No. 70, by Hofman, ‘de-(inmg criminal conspiracy. Senate Bill No. 58, by Rivers, es- hlishing a manner of presenting ims against the Territory. | Senate Bill No. 56, by Rivers | suming liability for the Territory for mages in connection with flood control projects. | Senate Bill No. 78, by Roden, ap- propriating $75 to reimburse the Bethel Beach Home for the care of two indigent children. Senate Bill No. 79, by Roden, ap- propriating $850 to pay Mrs. Aral D. Brown for services rendered as teacher at Hoonah. Senate Bill No. 92, by Rivers, by request, appropriating $375 to pay | N. Lester Troast and Associates for services in preparing plans for the t | Legislature’s Pioneers’ Home Com- mittee. Senate Bill No. 74, by Rivers, to provide for giving of notice of ap- | plication for letters testamentary. | Senate Joint Memorial No. 13, by Rivers, asking a 25 per cent pay |increase for post office employees in Alaska. Senate Joint Memorial No. 16, | Rivers, asking that Admiralty I';l\n(l {not be made a National Park and that no other new National Parks e created in the Territory. Senate Jonit Resolution No. 5, by atterson and Cochran, raising the | pension’ of Clara E. LaMotte from ¢$30 to 545 per month. e, ‘Drager Would iProtedt - Husbands An thndmvm | married man,” was offered to t cosmetology (beauty shop) bill pas- sed by Representatives yesterday af- | ternoon. Drager amendment offered to be the following added in a new section to the bill: “No person of the masculine gend- er shall suffer arresl, fine, or impri- sonment for committing the offense Nunn-Bush Ovaula. . .FOR MEN ‘All Nunn-Bush shoes are Ankle-Fashioned to reduce gapping at the ankles — slipping at the heels. $7.75 up FRED HENNING for 1939 living? Modern lamps are designed for modern living. You'll find that they give more ef- ficiefit light, are more con- venient, more attarctive . . . " more useful and desirable in every way. And, the most attractive and desirable of the new lamps we have selected for your choice. SEE THEM NOW ON DISPLAY Some with Table Stands. FROM $12.50 1o $25.00 Table Models as low as $3.95 JUNEAU-YOUNG HARDWARE C0. l to “protect the GEORGE Bnns of callmg a Shop of Cosmetology a Beauty Parlor or a Beauty Shop, and | provided further, that no Beantv‘ Shop shall permit the wife of any | husband to have more than one per- | manent wave a week, unless the same be free of charge.” Speaker Lyng ruled the amend- ment unacceptable. “Never mind, young man,” Drager, “You'll be married day.” 'LOCKHEED FLIES 5 FROM JUNEAU Shell Simmons flying the AAT | Lockheed Vega took off from Juneau | habor this morning with five pas- | sengers in the cabin. Eiler Hansen | for Sitka, Jack Littlepage for Chich- agof, Mrs. Paul Sorensen and Harry Fitzgerald for Hirst, and Mrs. Sab- aroff, a round trip traveler for Peli- can, said some “Not while I'm conscious, Mr, ger,” replied Speaker Lyng. 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