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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1945 A story to he remembered forever! % SECOND FEATURE 5\ ROY ROGERS A TRIGGER (ing of Cowboys) 'SILVER SPUBS’ ® Special Kiddies' Matinee © SATURDAY—1:30 P. M. AND THE ALASKA MYSTERY CLUB’S EVELY“ COSTUME IMPERSONATION CONTEST PSSR AUDITS SYSTEMS TAXES NEILL, CLARK and COMPANY Public Accountants—Auditors—Tax Counselors 208 Franklin Street — Telephone 757 = Fairbanks Office: 201-2 Lavery Building KINLOCH N. NEILL JOHN W. CLARK WE OFFER TO A LIMITED NUMBER OF CLIENTS A COMPLETE MONTHLY ACCOUNTING AND TAX SERVICE TELEPHONE 757 . SPEICAL POTTERY TABLE ' " LAMP SALE GROUP NO. 1 10% Cash Discount GROUP NO. 2 15% Cash Discount Alaska Electric Light and " Power Company JUNEAU _DQUGLAS Phone No. 616 Phone No. 18 Cb}erfu] Dispensers of Dependable 24-Hour Elgetric Servigé ~ ~+ WINDOW U0 PLATE GLASS _ IDEAL GLASS CO. Glass Work of All Descriptions 121 MAIN STREET F. W. WENDT L5 DON ABLE ATELVOTES (ONFIDENCE N SHARPE | | 1 | Delegates to the Alaska Territorial | Federation of Labor Convention this| | morning voted endorsement of a bill ‘[v\lmn would give the Territoriai | Commissioner of Labor added dut- | and authority to press wage | claims At the same time, the delegation | voted to send Territorial Commis- isioner of Labor Walter Sharpe a tter ating that the ATFL ex- tends a vote of confidence to the | Commissioner and shall “support |the policies of your department | iwh(vn and if they advance the wel-} @ of all the people of Alaska.” Chairman John R. Dodge of the lative Committee read a draft e proposed bill concerning the tment and said that the had suggested dmend- | ments which would be incorporatéd in the bill. These included con- tinling to make the post elective,! instead cf appointive as the bill had first suggested, and setting the alary at $5,000 per year. The | proposed bill would be introduced in the Senate as a substitute for the wage collection measure which was introduced in the House, The financial program for the coming year was worked out this | morning as the convention neared Ithe closing date. |EXAMS BEING HELD " FOR FINAL PAPERS " OF CITHENSHIP Applicants for final citizenship | papers are now being examined by |the Clerk of the U. S. District | Court here, it is announced. All |persons who have filed petitions for final papers are to report for foxummalion to the Clerk today, |Saturday or Monday. The court hearing on applications is set for next Tuesday, February 120. - e —— Daug_hter Is Born To J. Krugness, Jr. | Advices have been received here |of the birth of a baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. John Krugness, Jr., in | Eugene, Oregon, and both mother ‘and babe are in excellent heaith. e e——— i (PAN AMERICAN IN | . FROM NORTH, SOUTH i A Pan American Airways -plane; took the following passengers to | 3eattle yesterday: } ‘afson, Dave Ohmer, i sle, Jes=ph™ Ellson, Quentin Kueth-} ¥, Mrs. Jaunita Kuether, and John | West. i Juneau to Fairbanks—Al Jones.' Fairbanks to Juneau—Walter W.| ‘Woodall. Today, the following passengers left Juneau for Seattle: Sgt. Frank Anderson, Alene Demming, Velma Demming. Juneau to Whitehorse—Mrs, Emily Wildermuth, Edwin Wilder- muth and Henry Wildermuth. Seattle to Juneau Mildred Shilowitz, B. Dennie. McCart, ‘Vir- ginia Foss, Lt. Leonard Peterson, Harold Foss, Nick Bez, Mrs. Laura Tollack, James Park, Martin Heg- berg, Charles. Burdick ‘and Bar- bara Johnson. SRS o PAA ADDS FOUR EXTRA SEATTLE T0 ALASKA HOPS Service Said Approximate- ly Doubled - Eleven Weekly Irips Set SEATTLE, Feb, 16.—Approximate doubling of Seattle-to-Alaska air- line service has been announced by J. V. Roscow, assistant-manager of the Alaska sector for Pan American Airways. Eleven round trips week- 1y, henceforth will be flown, he said. The company will continue its reg- ular schedule, including Seattle-to- Nome service in' a single day, threej ‘imes a week. ~our extra flights wlli be added between Seattle, Ju- neau, Whitehorse, and Fairbanks. William Crib- ! SLEMMUT RAISES $40 FOR MARCH OF Word _has_been received by the office of Indian ‘Affairs in Junegu that the tiny native village of Sleitmut, on the upper Kuskokwim, with a papulation of but 45 dand 8 school enrollment of 24, raised for the March of Dimes, “which [amount they have forwarded to the ‘President of the United States. 3 ———— " | Mary Allerton was ‘the last sur- vivor of the Pilgrims who came to America on the first voyage of the Mayflower. Clarerice Gus- r THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA SHARPEIN ‘Sup!. (hangelflflf&gu{%m" | ANSWERTO For Pioneers’ " CENTURY . LEGISLATOR Home Advised ..vic: =.x.ci that have been making such a hit| (with the Juneau Juniors each Sat o ' . ‘urday matinee is on tap for tomor-| Says Krause's Committee Legislature Inspection Had Only Two Bills Committee Reports on All Session Institution at Sitka rows meeting at the 20th Centu 6, when a t' moving skit, ng To Get Arrested' is to be atured, with Bill Vernon, Rick| Larson, Joanne Nowell, Mary Sofolis and Bev Lane in the cast. | e many musical numb: Territorial Commissioner of Labor| Intimation that a change in the r¢ for the radio E)m.uiu Walter Sharpe, in & talk last night, Superintendent would be of benefit 2nd & ial contest for both boy dellvered the following answer to|to the institution is theé high point and gitls ls‘imed up | {he talk made the previous night by |of the report of the Leglslative In- ~ The Scrben program will be two Rép. Joo Krause, Chairman of the vestigating Committce that recent- fcatures, Famund Lowe i Elon- House Labor Ccmmittee, concerning ly mspe the Alaska Ploneers dike Fury” plus “Wi = charges of delaying the passage of Home at Sitka pede’t with Hoot Glbson ‘and Jeni labor legislation | The joint report of the House and Maynard. A cartoon will be shown “Tre Seventecnth Session of the genate members making the trip ° Legislature met January 22, 1945. was presented yesterday afternoon Tre fellowing day, the second day to the Territorial Senate by Senator of th ssion, and the first day for andrew Nerland, chairman of the the intrcduction of bills, Curtis ypper chambers Committee on Shattiick introduced Houss Bl NO. Territorial Offices and Institutions. 1, whiéh has to do with a revision of 1t was concurred in by the three the Workmen's Compensation Law. |other committee members, Senators House Bill No. 1 was referred to O.D. Cochran, Joe Green and H. H. the Labor Committee in the House. McCutcheon. The Chairman of that Committee The report, which was voted to be Joe Krause. House Bill No, 11 was’ jncorporated in the Senate Journal, also introduced on the first day was ompanied by Stenographic for the introduction of bills. House tra; ripts of a hearing held at the Bill No. 11 has to do with Wage Cal- Home and attended by approximate-| lections and gives to the Department )y fifty residents of the Home, and of Lakor power to enforce them. of interviews with individual pion- Now thcse are the only two HOUse eers. Both favorable and unfavor- Bills referred to that Committe2 S0 dple comment on the conduct of the far this sesston. |institution was heard at the hear- “I believe that my comments at ing. the Territerial Federation of Labor| In general the inspecting com- Convention were justified. House mittee found the condition of the Bill No. 1 lay in Mr. Krause's Com= puildings satisfactory, both inside mittee until the 16th day before he and outside. The rcoms were clean called o comimittee meeting’ on It and well-kept. The cemetery Was pevs arc also ‘requested to. attend I attended that Committee meeting. jn good condition, The hospital at this 'affair, 1 Mr. Krause made absolutely no com- the Home was well maintained and - -+ ment about having received any op~ was found ample for the needs of inion frém the Attorney = Genmeral. the institution itself. However, it is Mr., Krause knew the contents of the only hospital serving both the this bill at least nine months before home and the town of Sitka and he came to Juneau for this session. there is only one physician in Sitka. 1 have a letter from Mr. Krauseé The committee reccmmended, dated Juné 26, 1944, asking why the'therefore, that as soon as possible, legislation being propossd by me the city should provide its own facil- had not been passed long ago; prov- ities. Need for a diagnostician at ing that he had seen the Dbills or the Home was also found. | he couldnt ask the questions he did' The meals served were declared in his letter. He had plenty of by the committee to be wholesome, time to suggest changes long before put it is recommended that more he came to Juneai, and he was in- substantial meals would be advis- vited through this organization' torable, particularly the noon meal. 1 do so. Mr. Krause is a legislator,! It was pointed out that the cook,'| paid to come to Juneau and write who is paid $300 per month for his our laws. Where are his Labor services at the Home, is also em-| Laws If he isn't satisfied with what'ployed as steward at the Bitka was proposed? He admits that the Modse Lodge. It was thought that present Workmen’s Compensation'this outside employment * impairs Law nceds revising. the performance of his duties at ‘At this Committee meeting on the Home. February 6, the 16th day of the pres-| It was recognized by the commit- ent sescion, Mr. Krause did 1ot offer tee in its report that Superinten- any objections to the bill. * The dent Efier Hansen has been i poor cnly question that he asked me was health, which fact may have result- whether or not I thought there was ed in his not being able to give full anything harmful to Labor in the time and effort to the management Lill. Evidently after nine months of of the institution. It was suggested suppasedly’ knowiig the 'billi 'he that a superintendent enjoying bet- couldn’t tell. v |ter health could give the operation “Referring now to that part of Mr, of the Home fuller attention. { Krause’s talk, where he said Y'Tush” LI o ! ‘ed in desperately with two major| Uncounted thousands of miles of amendment, T will let you judge that nerve fiber comprise the brain and for yéurself. I brought in six lines|rervous system in the human body. to be added to the Title of the bill,} {which would repeal all the existing | | Workmen'’s Compensation Acts, and renumbered the bill,” starting with ISection 1, instead of numbering the bill as it was in the Compiled Laws. 1 Why such a simple matter is so con- fusing to Mr. Krause is something that only Mr. Krause can answer. T not only renumbered the copy of the bill for Mr. Krause, but: I also re- {wrote’ the Committee Report that he ‘had all' garbled up. This sudden lworr_y about 6,000 sheets of paper. | which Mr. Krause asserts would be 'necéssary to rewrite the bill, even if (it were necessary, but it' isn't, {sn't (a very good argument when we | stop to consider that the bill now in {the hopper has consumed well over 50,000 sheets. It'is an absolute ‘reversal from the original stand Mr. Krause took as to the form of this{ " bill, for the form he thought nec- essary’ would ‘take twice as much | paper as the form in which this bill is now written. " | “Mr. Krause wants to remember that ‘expérts aré being brought into the Terfitory to write certain types |of legislation but so far no experts jon Labor legislation have been im- ported. It*is very easy to recom- ment, but it is another thing to get| {these recommendations in bill form, introduced and passed. 1 inspection of the sp i ! | 16¢ | P | LABOR DANCE GIVEN PUBLIC on. Satirday night, in the Eks Ballroom, the public of Gastineau Channel is invited to be the guests of the Juneau Central Labor Council in honoring the delegates attending the ‘Alaska Territorfal Federation of Labor' convention, noWw in' Session Lere. Dancing will begin at 10 o'clack | and 'Wwill continue "umiil 1 o'clock gunday mornifiz. All Union mem- ‘ LAST NIGHT—G. 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