The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 26, 1945, Page 5

MONDAY FEBRUARY 26, 1945 WARGOES ON OVER MONEY; NO CUTS YET Big —Roads—Aopropriation Still Stands at Major- ity Holds Firm The bloodless Battle of the Ap- propriations continued today in the House of Representatives with a de- termined minority still vainly at- tempting to infiltrate strong major- ity defenses with slashes on the big- gest appropriation bill in the Legis- lature’s history. Highlights of this morning’s ses- sion were battles over roads and prospectors, $800,000 for the former and $60,000 for the latter. Boiled down, the arguments were held to the roll of drums under the flagpole; for: Our boyss coming home | deserve the increase in roads that will broaden the economy of the| Territory and our boys coming homo; shall have money with which to go| prospecting if they wish; against: | All our boys want to come home to is the home they left in stable finan- | cial condition. | Representative Linck began the minority attack this morning with an’ amendment seeking to strike the| 1$800,000 - roads appropriation to $600,000. Mr. Hesce asked for $400,000,” MI'S.; Linck $aid, “and Mr, Smith said| that wasn't enough, S0 $600,000| seems fair enough.” | Gill Talks Most vigorous backer of the en- | larged roads appropriation was Rc-‘ publican ‘ Oscar Gill from Anchor- age, who declared, “If anybody here | can think of a better way to spend money, I'll yield the floor.” Gill went on to say the “real rea- | son” for the larger appropriation | was to take advantage of the oppor-| tunity Alaska may have to come un- | der the Federal Highway Aid act,| legislation for which purpose ha.s‘ been introduced in Washington by Delegate Bob Bartlett. 2 And the volatile Representative Vukovich couldn't stand it any long- L ooy { “House Going “Hog Wild” i “Apparently everyone in this House know$ more about roads than Mr. Hesse!” Vukovich declared, add- | ing, “And I say again — this House is geing hog wild!" The Linck amendment was defeat- ed, 18.10 6. Once again Mrs, Linck tried her often dulled knife on the appropria- | tions: measure 'when legislators | reachéd the $60,000 figure requested in the bill ‘for ‘financing the 1927 Prospectors’ Aid Act. “Mr. Stewart, the Commissioner of | Mines, told the committee that $30,000 was ample,” Mrs. Linck said, offering an amendment to- cut the | higher figure to taat sum. Said't] mafifrem © the . creek: Reprefefitative Ed Anderson, many yedrs an Alaska piacer miner, “If it wasn't for the prospectors we wouldn’t be here. It was the pros-| pectors that opened this country. Let’s give credit to these men, our real pioneers.” Flag Unfurled . It was at this point that the Ilag was unfurled. “If you want to do somethmg for the returning soldier,” said Rep- resentative Diamond, ‘“Here's your chance. At the miging short course in, Anchorage the other «day, there, were 375 men enrolled, mostly ser-| vice men.” Representative Alaska Linck pro-| nouriced herself “sick and tired” oi “nsing: the soldier's name in vai Rep. Pollard, seldom say- ing a word, rose to his feet and de-' clared, “Here we're sitting around making more money than-ever be- fore—our boys are dying out there ' on the battlefields—I tell you gentle- | men were cowards. Let's give ev-| erything we can!” Soaring temperatures boiled over here and Representative Peterson called for an end to the argument.; | “When you start waving the flag it Si time to say something!” he declared. “I'm sacrificing just as much as| anybody . else.” Like the previous Linck amend-’ ment, the cut attempt was killed, | eighteen to six. Early in the morning’s session, Representative Shattuck had tried again to slash University of Alaska funds. this. time trying. to cut the new - buildings appropriations by $175,000, but the amendment also failed, by: closer vote, 14 to 10. _During the reading of committee reports, gallery spectators acecustom- ed to liberal “do pass” approach of House Committees, were surprised to hear four measures come out to) the Clerk’s table with negative re- ports. | | “Do Not Pass” ‘Those measures getting the “do not pass” sign from committee wer House Bill No. 57, for pin ball mach- ine licensing, House Bill No. 58, to| require the Attorney General's of- fice to pelice the enforcement of liquor laws, House Bill No. 54, ask- ing $20,000 for a Petersburg hospital project, and House Joint Resolution No. 4, asking road funds be used to| move a building in Skagway for the séhool there, With a long calendar piling up\ ahead of them, Representatives were ttying to get through with the| appropriations bill this afternoon and shove it on to thitd reading. | py | Plant corporation adjoining the | means of processing low grade ALUMINUM TO PLAY LARGE ROLE IN MAKING POST-WAR WORLD BETTER PLACE TO LIVE IN TEST KILN—An experimental kiln unit used for testing purposes, At right may be seen a sinter crushing unit, including a hammer mill, Rotating kiln is seen at left. By HARRY BARNES Central Press Correspondent EAST ST. LOUIS, of officials of one of America's biggest wartime industries ha let the public in on another secret —a new field of chemistry that will add more and more to post- war comforts and advancement when the job of winning the war is over and industry can turn again to peace-time production. The disclosure comes as a dis- tinct surprise, particularly since it is made by top-ranking officials ot the Aluminum Company of Amer- ica and the Aluminum Ore com- pany. which have made possible America’s record production of air- planes for war purposes by meet- ing what had been considered an “impossible” production quota for aluminum. Aluminum was one of the na- tion's top production problems even at a time when the United States was not yet embroiled in global warfare, but was trying to get tuned up to a defense pro- duction schedule. Consequently, for many years, a veil of war-time secrecy has shrouded the industry and its out- IL.—A group developments, experiments d ‘advancement. That. is, it did until the recent disclosure that the country now is well ahead of its aluminum pro- duction schedule and that, as a re- sult, the government had permit- ted the lifting of the secrecy order. The lifting of that secrecy order revealed a number of things: 1—Alumina, the fine powdery substance extracted from an ore known as bauxite and used in the manufacture of aluminum, is a basic ingrédient for a large num- ber of new products that will bet< ter our post-war world. 2—Developments in the process of extracting almuina from the bauxite: ore have made it possible to reduce the loss of alumina in the “waste” of iearller known processes. d 1 3—That a $10,000,000 plant built in recent years by the Defense Aluminum Ore company plant here is used to réprocess the “waste” material from the processing sys- tem of the main company plant and extract from that waste a large percentage of alumina lost ir: the first process. 4. That the Aluminum Ore com- pany has completed on its grounds here a development laboratory | costing $750,000 for the principal purpose of studying alumina proc- essing methods and determining ores that previously were consid- ered of too poor grade to use com- mercially. The last item is the company’s main step at this time toward greater participation in the chemi- cal fleld in the post-war area. First, to produce articles through chemical production, a sufficient amount of the basic ingredient, in this case alumina, must be avail- able. ‘The laboratory will be used to find means of obtaining a greater amount of alumina from ores now used as well as from lower grade ores, thus increasing the volume includ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA [ Gurkha Radio Man COALMINERS MAY STRIKE IN 30 DAYS Policy Commitfee of UMW Serves Walkout No- tice at Meeting WASHINGTON, Feb, 26.—John L. | | | | | | | Lewis and his United Mine Workers’ I'policy committee today served no- tice, under the Smith-Connally Act, | | of the possibility of a bituminous | coal strike in 30 days. | The bituminous contract expires | March 31. Negotiations with the | opeartors are beginning Thursday. | The policy committee gathered to- ing sintering ‘‘red mud’’ slurry, - ] KELLY FILTER PRESS—It is employed in separating solid from liquid. Major use: Seperating of the article the industry will need most in expanding produc- tion of its articles in the chemical field. Prior to the war, the greater amount of bauxite ore came from the South American countr but when the war struck, the shipping problem made it imperative that the United States find some| method of produeing alumina from raw materials available in this country. Many experiments followed untit the process now used in the $10,- 000,000 government plaht mae’ it possible to. extract a greater per- centage of alumina from available ore supplied, Over 50 Products In addition to the manufacture of alumina and flourides for use in the production of metallic aluminum, the Aluminum Ore company already, /61" prodicing more than 50 products in 'the chemical fields and has no hesita- tion in giving assurances that there will be more.such produgts developed and ready for produc- tion when the war is over. The company revealed that within the next few years to come, a huge research laboratory to de- velop those products will be built near the present development lab- oratory. Alumina is produced in a great variety of forms, ranging from anhydrous oxide to hydrated alumina with as much as 35 per cent chemically combined water; alumina with = cofrundum like hardness and alumina as soft as tale; alumina free-flowing like| sand, and alumina of smooth, paste-like consistency; crystalline alumina and collodial alumnia and alumina that absorbs 20 per cent of its weight in water—in other words, alumina for a multitude of uses, The diversity of uses to which alumina already has been put range from the manufacture of glass to its use as an insectide and a laundry sour. SUPPORT FOR LEGISLATION ON MANPOWER WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Sen- ator E. D. Thomas of Utah told the Senate he is reluctantly supporting the pending manpower legislation bccausclmmtary leaders asked for it as a boost to morale. In announcing that he opposed Na- tional Service Legislation, the chai; man of the Senate Military Affairs Committee said he counselled against offering any compulsory bill at this time, and said he thought such a measure might cause con- fusion in industry and labor rela- tions and be detrimental to the war effort. S e — George A. Madden, Valdez, is a guest at Hotel Juneau, red mud from sodivm aluminate liguor, The various types of alumina are used in making such things as a cetalyst support for the oil in- dustry for the production of toluene, gasoline and other hydro- carbon products; as an ingredient for rubber; as a heat-shock re- sistance and corrosion resistance for gl and vitreous enamels; breathers for prevention of moi: ture Itration and condensa- tion in liquor storage tanks, elec- trical transformers, gear cases, re- frigerators and other similar in the drug cosmetic in- for the production of sales, and lotions—in short, a s that will be expanded L the war is over. The new alumina development laboratery which has been erected at ‘the East ‘St. Louis plant has been designed and built to provide pilot plant capacity equipment primarily_ for jthe development of improved operating technique, cconomy in the use of materials and improved quality of product in the Alcoa combination process for the extraction of alumina from the low-grade bauxite éres. The laboratory is equipped with a complete Bayer processing unit (the type of system used in the main plant in East St. Louis) which can be operated separately, or in combination with furnacing processes at any point desired. It includes mud settling units and washing units, a variety of filters - and centrifuges and is capable of handling sufficient quantities of materials to deter- mine the build-up of various im- purities in the syStem when in continuous operation. The buildings which houses the development laboratory is of bricic and steel constructiop, 80 feet wide by 340 feet long, and has two mezzanines, giving floor space totaling 46,300 square feet. This, to be sure, is a pret(y‘ good indication that a substance nrow used principally to produce a metal, will play an important part in the post-war era, CRICKET IN PORT The Alaska Transportation Com- pany freighter, Cricket, arrived in port early this morning from the south, and today is discharging general cargo for local merchants at the Alaska Steamship Company Dock. Fet e WO A Ed Smither, Baranof Island, is staying at Hotel Juneau, e ——— Empire want ads get quick results registering from | day to formulate demands for a new ! | contract. The strike notice was the | | first action of the mm-lmg | A WIRELESS operator in the Indian, or Gurkha, patrol with the Eighth Army in Haly is this picturesque fellow who picked up his radio in= formation in India and whose Working Now name is given as Havildar Birba- Strike Ends =~ HighestCourt ' Return fo Work as Govern- | jsault on Berlin Febru: PAGE FIVE BERLIN IS MEMBERSHIP ATTACKEDBY ™ chinoen Now 1200PLANES The Grand IVLIH- ver the Pioncers and Auxiliary meeting Saturday night in a final session, voted to 150-mile Long Procession of Bombers Streak Out on Assault change the membership requirement for the Picneers, and now any man residing in rritory prior to Janusg 1, 1§ eligible for mem- LONDON, Feb. 1200 American heavy ried out the biggest attack of war against' Berlin, streaming bership. A resc more than 150 mile-long proces ¢f bom! guarded by 700 lor range Mustangs and Thunderbolts The first announcement by U. S, Strategic Air Force Headquarters sald the attack was directed against railway ta and that most of ve bombs were dropped through clouds. The bomber fleet exceeded by proximately 200 the size of the 3 Berlin radio w: off the air more than three hours during the day for “technical reasons.” RAF Mosquitos attacked Berlin Saturday night while Allied Air Furces flew more than 5000 sorties | yesterday, exclusive of the United | States 15th Air Force in Ttaly, ) the Legis- on the in- s Home in v adopted. » Grand Igloo also went on re- endorsing the increase in the Old Age pension from the pres- ent maximum of $45 to $60. Dr. C, E. Bunnell of Fairbanks and Sen. Den Carles Brownell of Seward were special puests at the meeting and made short talks, Many of the delegates have al- iy left for their homes, especs the Ketchikan delegation, which had chartered the gasboat Petrel for the trip. e FROM FANSHAW and- Mrs. L. De Long, Fan- Alaska, are guests at Hotel lution to mmittee rey of the Piox unanimot % than & car- the in ion More bombers y th ap- Mr shaw, Juneau The HANNON HERE Hannon, registering from is a guest at the Gastineau John Seattle, Hotel " |which carried its record assault on | targets in Austr 1d southern Ger- many through the thirteenth day. The German Airforce was active in rome sectors ainst Allied saults. At least 46 Nazi planes were as- f Labor Agencies | me;g Coans?(;er%zzges i UphO'dS Ban - On Homework 1 SEATTLE, Feb. 26.—The welders have returned to work at the Todd { Pacific Shipyard and Todd Dry- | dock, having voted 135 to 65 yl‘s-‘ | terday to end the strike that started ‘Febr y 9, climaxing three years efforts of the Independent Weldvr.s: Union to win jurisdiction from the AFL unions, which include weld in their membership. The decision to end the walkout was made contingent upon consid- eration by government labor agencies | of their demands. .- 'PANAMERICANIN ' WITHPASSENGERS . OVER WEEKEND A Pan Amuu.m Airways plane | vesterday brought the following pas- | sengers to Juneau from Seattle: (cuit court held that the adminis- | John Hannan, Arthur Brown, Mary | trator of the wage and hour law Brown, John Sarvela. | could prohibit home werk, The or- Juneau to Seattle—Elroy Ninnis, |der also approved the 40 cent min- John A. Long, Alfred Harsch, Wal- | imum hourly wage rate for embroid- lace W. Prosser. A‘*'v‘ workers. Juneau to Fairbanks — Roy C. e g ‘H]é,\n:ssatux rday the following pas- ; (an I Ge' D'unk Playing This Bar | sengers were flown to Juneau from i o | GREAT FALLS, Mont.—Sheriff Seattle: David Davis, Ed Hoffman, Wesley Edwards, Victoria Edward Fairbanks to Juneau—Mrs. L: Andy Loberg is opening a new night club and “bar” here for children only and selling only soft drinks. He dessa Nordale. Juneau to Seattle—Stan Furman, | proposed his project because, he | said, there were no public dance Charles McDonald, Eli Youetich James Hulbert, Mrs. Beatrice Ros- (halls in Great Falls that * ‘juveniles | mh:h' properly attend.” ministator Has Right to Stop Practice WASHINGTON, Feb. preme Court ruled that and hour admin thority to include a ban on home- | work In a minimum embroidery industry Jedge spoke for the court majorit: | Justice. Roberts wrote the dissent, in which Justice Stone joined. The Gems Co., Inc., and several home workers in the industry ap- pealed to the court from a decision of the Fegeral Circuit Court of Ap- peals in New York City. The cir- 26—The Su- the wage crder for the , Justice Rut- e ness. Juneau to Fairbanks—Mrs. Ger trude Phillips, Vance Phillips, Leon- ard Pete, John Lange. Leaving today for Fairbanks were | the following passengers: Roy Fer- | especially high school students, guson, Arthur Brown, Mrs. Mary | would rather have their own place Brown, Jane English, Dorothy Tyner. | of amusement and preferred one Juneau to Seattle—<Kenneth Rice.| where no liquor was sold. - s - e Empire waat ads zet quick gsults [ BUY WAR BONDS FRENCHMAN FLEES —with all his possessions loaded into a covered wagon, a French farmer Icads a team) of oxen away from his home to es¢ape a German shelling of his town located in the northern sector of the west front. Says Wage and Hour Ad-‘ trator has the au-/ |shot down, and an additional 35 des- \lm}od on the ground. Incomplete {returns disclesed four Allied med- lium light bombers and 28 fighter planss are mis\nm ! D SARVELA HERE W. Sarvela, of Sitka, at the Baranof. - BROWNS HERE John is staying ! | Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Brown, of (Fairbanks, are staying At the Gas- {tineau Hotel. - — FROM INTERIOR K. M. 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