The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1945, Page 5

lULbD/\\ FEBRUARY I3 ‘)4) 0 ATEL IS SHARPETALK ™ owen House AT MEE"NG'Senaie Passes Measure. | Today by Unanimous Vote Without dissenting vote, |aska Senate this forenoon Senate Bill No. 2, widening base of the Territorial Table Resolution Earlier Condemning Commis- gioner ¢ of Labor A delayed action bomb was plant- | the Al- passed the ed with delegates to the mflska‘tiun Act, Following signing of the Edward D. transmitted its original President bill was still in Territorial Federation of Labor con- | measure by vention this afternoon by Territorial | Coffey, the Commissioner, of Labor Walter ‘Yo the House Sharpe who told the delegates that | form. the two labor bills introduced ir| Following brief the House of Representatives the\pmt of the messure by Senator first day of the session have been | |Joe Green, the bill's author, Sen- delayed by “labor” members of the 'ator Allen Shattuck raised one new House. i | point l'lm d:;('u\smn before the bill : ime, rpe refuted |Was adopte s!;:x:x:;t:a?rjr:ll:: b)slh:"l'pl;L Presi Senator Green declared the re- dent Frank Marshall in the organi. sult of passage of his bill would be zation’s bulietin. |to bring within scope of the Act Sharpe pointed out that he had '8n additional 17.1 per cent of the e d that most fore the Federation’s last | territory’s workers, an g:‘:;f:; bfn Ketchikan a year J‘,Dlu‘ndmt workers would be included his proposals for improving the | within that group, while heretofore, Wage Collection Law and the Work- | mainly large employers of non- men’s Compensation Law—that both | "“’”de‘(‘; % 1"3;" nc}t‘dd Lol measures were introduced in the ‘co;ere 7 ‘i Shettu(k aaked House on the first day, one by Rep. | Senator Shd remarks in sup- as to Compensa- ' Curtis Shattuck and the other by | Rep. Almer Peterson. Sharpe then outlined the benefits of the bills. The Workmen's Compensation .Bill, Sharpe pointed out, was re-| ferred to Rep. Joe Krause's Com- | ittee on Labor, did not get a com- mittee hearing for 16 days when it was recommended by the committee that ‘it do pass, but this is the twenty-third day of the sesston and the-bill isn't out on the floor yet. The other measure, viding for ‘wage collections for worl ers, Sharpe said, should now be ready for final passage but is being held in Rep. A. B. Cain's Commit- tee on Engrossment and Enrollment. He said the measure was held in second reading on the motion of | Cain at one time, then heid over again on the motion of Rep. Chris Hennings. Both bills are being delayed, he stated, and urged that the repre- sentatives of labor take steps to see that they aren't delayed long enough to kill them. In a morning session, .the vention took action on a number of resolutions which were reported out of committee. A resolution calling for tablishment of sinking the a fund to be used by the ATFL for poiitical | activities was reported out with the recommendation that it be sent to National President Willlam Gleen for his approval or disapproval the bill pro-| ~ | Shattuck’s queries. con- | es- the sufficiency of the present fund for payment of benefits, whether ‘1( would be adequate to cover the |additional group of employees to |be brought within the Act in case | |of widespread unemployment, and |whether it would not be advisable |to augment the fund by provided ‘tu) collection of a proportionate ‘contnhulmn from employees them- |selves? { R. E. Sheldon, Territorial Di- irector of Unemployment Compensa- |tion, was called to answer Senator He' replied to {the effect that the Commission mnsldc-xut the pr 1t fund sound |and solvent, that it should be ade- ‘qum.~ to cover the additional em- |ployees to be brought under its benefits by Senate Bill No. 2; |mainly by virtue of the fact that a large proportion of those non- resident workers on whom contri- {butions have been paid in to the (un(l have since left the Territory and that after they have been gone for 15 months they will have no [clatms against’ the ‘Alaska fund, but instead must. bring their claims t the States in which they have since been employed. ding contributions from the employees to support the fund, Mr. Sheldon said he considered that a question could well be passed by the the present, until experience under the new conditions to be created by the - bill--may have brought about a need for them. ~ /ARCTIC HELL EXPERIENCED BY 3 FLIERS i {Forced Down in North- Sleep Under Three Feet of Snow In a world at war, the Arctic is a land afar, but to three men who {will long remember the terrors of its icy grip, the North fights a war all its own. The man who will tell you so is Harry Swanton, intrepid Arctic pilot who three weeks ago, forced idown while on an Army charter in the frozen wastes north of Kotze- bue, had one of the most harrowing experiences of Alaskan airplane history. Swanton, a pilot for Ferguson Airways of Kotzebue, was headed for Point Barrow with Alaska Scout Sergeant Rheinhard Berg, rugged ex-Fort Yukon trapper, to set up !food caches for Army dog teams to |be employed in mapping and 'freighting ventures in an area as yet, for all practical purposes, un- mapped and unknown. Also along was Ferguson Airways Mechanic, Art Flat. The party damaged a ski in a landing to set up a cnche approxi- mately 150 niiles morth of Kotze- bue and about 20 miles in from the coast. For the following eight days the trio battled desperately against blizzards and bitter cold to keep alive and were finally res- cued by the Army Air Rescue Service. Blizzard Starts Swanton, who with his boss, Archie Ferguson, passed through Juneau yesterday, shivers when he tells the story. “A blizzard started an hour after we tore off the ski,’ 'Swanton said. “She blew harder and harder for four was going to blow apart. Wind pressure broke the main spar in one wing during the third night. It must have been blowing at least €0 miles an hour. When the storm finally broke, on the fourth day, all the three feet of snow cn our ‘landing field’ had been blown away:and you could see the bare Lmund showing through ev: t Four Days Hardest was thosz first four da found hardest. /e had only one sleeping bag,” Swanton said, “and we took the! bundles of dried fish we intended days and I thought the ship| fllL D:\IL\ \L ASKA M PIRL JU\L\U ALASKA wind blowing so hmd' they couldnt use parachutes, Swanton continued, “and when they dropped that stuff from 1,000 feet it just blew up and splattered all over the place. We needed the tent they dropped us like anything, ut the darn tent stakes ended up | like toothpicks and there isn't any | wood in that ccuntry for a hundred miles 1 More Supplies Dropped Another ship arrived that same | day, piloted by Pat Bliss of the Arctic Circle Exploration Company, and dropped more supplies with ! better results, except for the near- loss of two slesping bags, when boxes of matches wrapped witiin | became ignited on hitting ground. That was the day on which the incident took place which would' have stumped Hollywood writers. With no tent the Arctic citizens in the * Igloo” got into an argument on‘ how to build a snow house. Getting Punchy “That would give some people in the States a laugh,” Swanton said; | three | script | Yank Nursem]apanese (amp 1 the| : nd of the!| “but by golly we had to try to re-| i member what we'd school books Eskimo igloos. wasn't pretty. The other fellows did | most of the work while I staked | out a landing field. We were getting | kind of ‘punchy’ and fighting about | whether to walk out or wait for| help. When I came back from the field T'd laid out and started to | laugh at that snow house, they | pretty mear killed me. They sure insulted!” On the eighth day, an observation “jeep” landed, following it, a Nordine Norseman “I was never so tickled to get into an airplane in my life,” Swanton declared. The party had been forced down read in our‘ about these so-called | Army the course of the search and r cue the Army used four airplane: Swanton his boss, well known {Archie Ferguson. The fwo will take delivery in Texas of a new Waco |freighter recently released by the {Army. Kobuk River Jade Ferguson, completely enthusiastic over Kobuk River jade, of which {he has known for 20 years, but Ipaid little attention to until sur- the deposits were made r by Eskil Anderson of the torial Department of Mines, jubilantly : “With that |new Waco we san money flying out jade at three dollars a pound to Fairbanks than we can hauling passengers.” Ferguson will return via Juneau and Swanton will fly the new ship to Kotzebue, by way of the Interior. On Swanton's shopping list for {his trip to the States “one good 1 Another, from a Fairbanks local; Perhaps that should be brought “], to cache for the dogs and laid them | |suit of heavy underwear stating that Commissioner of Labor Walter Sharpe had failed to fulfill his duties and failed to prepare labor legislation for the Legisla- ture, was tabled as out ot order by unanimous vote and“is to be returned to the Fairbanks. local: “in maybe a couple of years,” he said. Senator N. R. Walker stated that though he had wished that the bill might have been amended ac- cording to his suggestion, he tended to support it as is, and; on the floor of the plane for a mattress. We wedged ourselves in and put the sleeping bag over us, taking turns for the middle posi- tion. It was pretty crowded.” ,!, the third night, e: Qn g n.fi*l-lts peak, and when a The Federation voted favorably|called for- the question. The bill sudden Tull came in the gale, to- on a resolution calling for financial assistance to local unions in need of ¢ funds, and also put the okeh on another calling for the conven- | ing of the ATFL convention here after on the same day the Ter! torial Legislature meets. The convention went on 1ecold in favor of helping the Ketchikan | local of the International Brother- Hood of Electrical Workers in ob- taining a local charter. Approved also was a resolution| calling = for time-and-a-half for time over eight hours spent on two jobs for the same employer, and ~ another asking the AFL to help in securing better wages for carpen- ters. The. . convention Ways. in which labor can aid in “the¥dévelopment of better, recrea- tional facilities for children and, dcting ‘as a committee of the whole, endorsed a resolution calling for interest in the matter .by local unions. Representative Almer Peterson of the Territorial House of Represen- tatives is scheduled to speak at 1:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to the convention, followed by Dr. Charles ‘Battin of the War Labor Board at 2 o'clock. also discussed | was passed unnmmously e — 'PAN AMERICAN PLANES A Pan American Airways plane | yesterday brought the following |passengers to Juneau from Seattle: {Helen Martin, Marshall Erwin, Lo- |zell Scudder, Marjorie Larson, Monnie Larson. flew to Seattle from Juneau—Thom- as Jensen, Miss Winifred Lindsey. Juneau to Whitehorse — Chester Stanczyk. Juneau to Fairbanks— Joe Wal- | lace, Fred Axford, Sumner Lucken, Mrs. Francis Lucken. ‘Douglas Fairbanks In Nav_al Hospital WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Lt. Comdr. Douglas Fairbanks is in a naval hospital at Bethesda, Mary- land, undergoing treatment for | penumonia. *snow BRING IN PASSENGERS | Today the following passengers ward morning, all three men woke to a sudden realization that they were buried under. three feet of that had blown into mc plane. Under Three Feet of Snow “Berg was in the sleeping ‘bag, I was huddled in the tail of the ship where I'had been trying to work the firepot, and Art was sitting with his back against the door crack trying to keep the worst of the snow from blowing in. When I realized what had happened to us I just had to Hole @p/igast my face to the top of the “snow like old brownie-bear. I looked at Art ‘and he was aetually buried clear up to his eyes, with sort of a blow-hole to his mouth. Berg; was sleeping like .a bgby under |three feet of snow inside the sleep- | Jng bag. When we snapped out of iit, we started throwing..snow out 'of that ship like.madmen and it took all day—it got us all wet in- side and out and we really began to suffer from the cold. The wing thermometer stood at 48 below. I’ guess it was.” Grounded Ship Located On the fourth day,an Army DC-3 search plane located the downed ship and dropped supplies. 1 the wind l “Everybody told me I ‘sucker for wearing summer |wear,” Swanton said, adding think they've got somflhmg' 4 was a under- DAKARBASE 10 BE BUILT BY FRANCE PARIS, Feb. 13—The Govern-' ment announced today the Council of Ministers had approved a plan to build & huge naval air base at Dakar | to protect the French Empire life- {lines and as a ‘contribution to col-| lective security, The plan was approved at the ses- sion, at which General De Gaulle reported he was notified last night by the American, British and Rus- {sion ambassadors of the decisions Ireached at the Crimea conference He reminded the major powers that France held a trump card in con- ferences yet to come. The Govern- ment reserved specific comment on the Crimea conference decisions. Council members | | her consultation. SUPPLIES FOR LUZON INVASION—soldiers and Coast Guardsmen bring supplies ashore for the invasion of Luzon Island in the Philippines. In background is a row. of landing craft from a U. S. attack transport. and | What we built sure | | | were | | . Lieut. (jy) Margaret Nash, Wilkes-Barre, Pa,, attends a patient in a sick ward at Santo Tomas University, Japanese concentration camp, Manila. This photo was found during the invasion of Leyte. Identi- fication was made by Comm. R. F. Armknecht, Donnellson, Ia,, now in Scuthwest Pacific, who knew Miss Nash before her | stationed |son’s Retirement Fund Bill in the | letter UNIVERSITY PROTEST IS INCLUDEDIN LODGED BY RETIREMENT POLEGROUP ‘House B;ihvgs Higher Say Big Three Sold Them School Under Pay Out in Formation of Benems of Act | Provisional Govt. Teachers’ LONDON, Feb. l'! ~ The Polish be extended to the staff of the|Government in London refuses to University of Alaska through|accept the decision of the Big Three amendments made today to Peter-|and accused thiem of violating “the and spirit of the Atlantie Charter right of every nation to retirement benefits will | House of Representatives The bill, setting up a retlrement | defend its own interest.” ‘rund for Alaskan teachers with| The London Poles bitterly da= \smm -annual payments to be made | nounced the Polish decision of the wjumll\‘ by the Territory, munici-|Big Three.. The.intention of the jpall(les and the teacher, in original | three powers to create a Polish pro- |draft, inciuded only teachers in visicnal government of national | public schools. unity “ca nonly legalize Soviet in- [ A telegram was read this morn- ' terference in Polish internal af- {ing from D. Charles Bunnel, fairs,” was a statement made b, |President of the University of Al- Socialist Premier Arciszewski of ‘the | aska, declaring professors there London group. are desirous of coming under pro- | visions of the bill, and the measure (was so amended. | The bill, however, was amended | to provide that the age 60 com- Stanislaw Mikolajcoyk, former Premier of the London government, y was reported planning to fly to | Moscow soon to take part in the discussions concerning the new Pol- on January 12 and were picked up | by the Army January 20. During“ visited Juneau friends | yesterday on his way Outside with | Arctic Pilot make more Gaulle’s position that France not be| |bound by decisions affecting her ln-; terest and which were taken without | capture, tered Manila. | Presumably she was liberated Sunday when the Yanks en- Bluejacket Peer | FOR THE FIRST TIME in England’s i history, a Peer took the oath and his seat in the House of Lords in a bluejacket’s uniform. He is Seaman Donald Shaw (above), the Third Baron of Craiguyle. He inherited the title last year. (International) 5 MEASURES ~ HIT HOPPER ~ INSENATE Five new measures were offered in | the Senate of the Territorial Legis- ‘lature this forenoon, as the upper chamber settled down to a heavy day repeated De | of business after yesterday's holiday. | | Senate Joint Memorial No. 4, in- troduced by Senate President Ed- ward D. Coffey, prays Congress for the extension of provisions of the " | Federal Highway Act, especially the | Pederal Aid Highway Act of 1944, |to the Territory of Alaska. It was referred 'to the Committee on Trans- | portation, Highways and Naviga- | tion. Senate Bill No. 22, by Senator N. R. Walker, provides for a referen- dum on the question of Statehood for Alaska. Senate Bill No. 23, by Senators Walker, Don Carlos Brownell and | Andrew Nerland, would create a Territorial Department of Health. Senate Bill No. 24, by Senator Walker, provides for the levy of excise taxes on intoxicating liquors. |fey, provides for preference to War | Veterans in employment in the Ter- | ritorial service and requires re-em- | ployment of veterans. Senate Bill No. 22 was rrferred to| | the Elections Committee; No. 23 |went to the Committee on Educa- ion, Public Health and Morals; No. 24 to the Taxation Committee and No. 25 to the Committee on Labor !and Commerce. The Education Committee {morning reported out two measures, both with “do pass” recommenda- |tions: Senate Bills Nos. 20 and 21. {An amendment was, however, ad- (vised for &epate Bill No. 20, to | provide for the inclusion of “City | Councils” in the licensing authorities for liguor dispensar: | Senate Bill No. 25, by Senator Cof- | this | SENATE WADES | INTO CALENDAR THIS MORNING Two Measures Jump Sec-| ond Reading Hurdle- Burial Bill Amended Two more prospective pieces of legislation jumped the hurdle of second reading in the Territorial Senate this morning. Senator O. D.| Cochran’s Senate Bill No. 13 moved along without amendment, while Senate Bill No. 11, introduced by Senator Andy Gundersen, had one alteration hung to it. House Bill No. 10 was re-referred to the Senate Finance Committee; | House' Bill No. 13 was carried over until this afternoon in second read- | ing; House Bill No. 6, the Fish Trap Referendum measur continued in second reading until next Mon- day. Senate Bill No. 16 was carried over until tomorrow, as was Senate | Joint Memorial No. 1. House Joint Memorial No. 3 was up for second reading when snator Walker moved for indefinite postponement and a recess was tak- en until 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, when the Rules Committee was ask- ed to advise on procedure. A question had arisen as to: | whether the house had transmitted | proper amended copies of the mea- sure for Senate consideration. Russel Maynard, director of the| Territorial Board of Public Welfare was called for questioning as to Senate Bill No. 11, which provided | for an increase from $100 to $125 in the maximum amount that.can be ‘exp:‘nded for the burial of indigents. Mr. Maynard explained that ris- ing costs had made the present sum insufficient in some sections of the Territory, particularly the In- terior. If the bill is passed, he said, he would ask that the Board provide an increase of 25 per cent over pres- ¢ont rates paid. The expenditure or a burial in the First Division ould then be raised from the pres- | nt $75 to approximately $95. In sther® divisions the maximum sum vould have to be expended. Support of indigents by relatives, 1s provided in the present law, drew wtack from Senator Don Carlos 3rownell, who moved to strike the equirement that any relative be equired to contribute to the sup- sort of any person who should be- ome an indigent as a result of in- oxication or other vice. The mendment lost by a 9 to 7 vote. Senator Andrew Nerland then | srcposed to amend the existing act y striking all that clause that lim- ted the type of relative that should be required to support or bury an | 'ndigent through drunkeness or sther vice. His amendment carried {by a 9 to 7 vote, and as the bill now reads, all indigents are placed on-the same basis. A question had previously arisen {15 to contributions to an indigent’s | funeral from other sources than the | Welfare Board. Mr, Maynard re- ‘plled that voluntary donations could be added to provide a better burial, tbut that funeral directors were pro- hibited from soliciting funds be- yond those provided by the Territory. | | Senator Cochran explained the }full purpose of Senate Bill No. 13 as being to make it possible for U. 8. Commissioners, who are not mem- | bers of the bar, to issue Abs Title. {has shown t fituation under the pre lating to the practi Territory, wherein are prohibited from performing that pulsory retirement clause does not |apply to professors at the Univer-| |sity of Alaska. | Commissioner of Education James |Ryan, called on to comment on |this amendment, declared teachers past 60 may be too old to teach children, with college instructors students are adult. Five new measures were intro- | duced in the House today, numbers where but the chse is different | h Provisional Government. | Hm\nr(l College was founded by {a vote of the General Court of the 'Cnlnny of Massachusetts Bay in 1636. | - — Gertrude Stein, autor, was born in Allegheny, Pa., and studied medis |cine for four years at John Hopkirs University. 47 and 48, by Representative Mau- | rice Johnson to respectively repeal an old law on bridges; amend the law relating to definition of attorney's fees civil actions. No. 49, by Representa- red anford, to repeal the ficial travel in the States; number 50, also by Hanford, to increase Territorial officers’ per diem pay- | ments from six to seven dollars; | and number 51, by Representative | Warren Taylor, to appropriate 815,-“ 000 to assist the town of Kodiak in building a school, provided a | like amount is put up by the | town itself. The teachers’ retirement funa bill amending took up the first two hours of the session this morning and at 1 o'clock this after- | noon representatives were to take ‘lish tmn licenslng measure, D STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 13. — After a two-day holiday, Alaska Juneau mine stock closed today at 7%, Am- erican Can 98, Anaconda 32, Beech Aireraft 12%, Bethlehem Steel 71, Curtiss-Wright 6, International Har- vester 78%, Kennecott 38%, North American Aviation 10%, New York | Central 24, Northern Pacific 20%, U. 8. Steel 61'z, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials, 156.34; rails, 50.32; utilities, 27.78. i — . - Norman Angell, English econo- mist, used to be an American cow- boy and prospector in the western part of the United States and Mex- ico. | Empire want ads get quick results. fast driving over | up amendment of H. B. 35, a new | | in’ | tive F H rd, ! 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