The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 3, 1945, Page 2

2AGE TWO NEW "AUDITS BILL FARES FARBETITER > in fishermen's license fees | would carry the load. The insur- [ Jeein About the |ance of the Fund, he said, is in-| | tended to cover those not coming | ' | under provisions of the Federal purple Hear'l (ongress May Have "Hot Polafo | Marine. Act | After Mr. Burrill was excused,! Senator Cochran moved Jfor ad- journment. His motion lost. Vote was then taken on the amendment to strike the appropriation from the 1nes lis raised only a little such a ven-| | ik THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA made it pay and if the bount ¥y themselves voting affirmative, The bill that floated temporarily ture could be profitable enough to on the River Styx but drifted back attract many new hunters, Senator Whaley declared that No. 57, Taylor's inty -payments to native hunters machine licensing measure. !will not secure the desired results {Native hunters, he said, will often committee report and a fuss immed- {not touch wolf dens until ihe cubs i |have been whelped, then they will Te ‘[‘nerfl“}' not bother the full-grown ling, and indefinite to the carthly shore was House Bill pinball and slot The bill came out with adver 8 tel s to whether or not the nted to legalize gamb- postpenement bill. The amendment failed to| ]:zmmnlm instead they will kill the was moved. carry cubs and collect bounty on them, Just t. side of a vote, author T iRt Bl Q l f F d Senator Grenold Collins then By JACK STINNETT |war theatre and injured by enemy leaving the mother to raise other lit- ‘faylor ccunvinced his fellow House F[Shb'n!en o T e |e un gained unanimous consent to con- — iauicn R | ters. members that the bill only amended {tinue Substitute for House Bill No. WASHINGTON, March 3.—Criti-| Thers are quite a few folks on Senator Joc Green declared he a 1941 pinball machine law to make Measure Escapes Quick Slaughter in Senate 4 in second reading. Another motion cism has to adjourn was put. It too, failed.|months against the allegedly Following introduction of a final ciscriminate” handing out of “in- ment and among the service person war nel who agreed with Bennett in new bill, Senator Leo W. Rogge said | medals, but as far as I know noth~;prindp]e But I have talked to sev-| is in again! he “guessed he'd try it again.” He |ing had really been done about it eral c¢f Congressman Bennett’s col- B 6. Senator Howard moved for adjournment to 11 a. m. until Rep, Marion T. Bennett (R-|leagues who just grin and whisper measure Saturday. His motion was amended | Mo.) introduced a bill in the house off the record that they think the Lco W. Rogge as to the carried. [ tc tighten contiderably the circum- young man from Missouri has es- ¢ A “str in the hands of [ctances under which the Purple poused a cause that may turn out| in carrying | Heart can be granted, |to be a hot potato. [ ) At 1t d by a After some discussion Olson Called ssible second amendment tor O. D. Cochran & Territorial Treasurer OsC th r in it would 1 recess yes- completed in the sclons e afternoor no ts attac to Knotty Problem Solved Rules Committee soived e ; problem that had been pre- d to if, to the effect t A motion to rescind, if carried, over- rules the original moticn, cn which wn Lo rescind is asked; that the inal motion is therefore defeat- enator Shattuck’s amendment posed in the , mo on, first carried then rescind declared los! The Rules group made additional use of the occasion to comment ad- ely on recent violations of decor- um that had occured in the chamber. Chairman Lyng voiced the feeling of the committee against “challenges hurled and the impunging of mo- " of Senators by other Sena- enate Substitute for House Bill No. 11, offered by the Labor and Commerce Committee and due to up for second reading, was at >quest of the Labor Committee, d to that group for furth- sidcration and was ordered to be returned to the Finance Com- mittee also. Two Measures Received Two measures were received by the nate from the House yesterday. te Bill No. 21, the Housing Au- ority Act, was reported passed by the House with several amendments. The bill was ordered held over until individual copies of the amendments could be transeribed for the Senators to peruse. Eubstitute for House Bill No. 52, a Hzalth Department bill nearly du- plicating that passed by the Senate n Wednesday, was referred to the Committee on Education, Public Health and Morals. Reported back by Senate Commit- tees were: From Engrossing—Senate Bills N: and 33 and Senate Joint Memorial No. 8—all correctly en- gressed; from Fisheries—House Bill No. 43, recommended for passage— nt to Finance The Fishermen’s Relief Fund mea- sure, Subs for House Bill No. 4, was last to receive Senate action yesterday. The bill was put in Jeopardy almost at the outset, motion to indefinitely postpone be- ing offered by Senator Cochran after had start- Bill for Fishermen plea that the bill ustified | se commerc fishermen on small, independent boats have no recourse to the Workmen's Com- Act or to Marine Hos- pitals, voiced by Senator Andy Gundersen, saved the measure, Senator Cochran withdrawing his motion Reading of the bill proceeded until the clause @ propriatic as Cochran thereupo clause be stricken does not pay the cos Compensation, he argued should the Territory pa: one group of persons?” At Senator Frank Gordon's re, quest, Mr. C. E. Burrill, representing the Cook Inlet Fishermen's Union was heard for comment on the posed amendment only. He declared the appropriation was needed to get the Relief Fund and its administra- ticn stayted, that efterwards move:d The Te; s of Workmen'" ‘Why o insure ro- the Senate ad- i until 10 o'clock this morn- -s o —— FDR CHATS TODAY WITH REPORTERS Discusses Treafies and De- clares Jesse Jones Is Out for Good y took his first the newsmen cussion of do- national problems desk, whipping back from one subject to the t made it clear that nmerce Jesse 1 major ad- jol t said treaties imy Allied plans the war's end i be dropping into the Senate rk from now on Turning aside the question of wt former Democratic tional Committee Chairman Flynn was do- ing Russia for the Administra- tion, he left swered reports that Flynn sought better relations be- tween the Kremlin and the Vatican President Rocsevelt dismissed the subject of Jesse Jones, who*was fir- ed weeks ago and replaced by Henry Wallace, by telling reporters the Texan's official status is now that of Ex-Secretary of Commerce, and that he would not head Government Lending Agencies pending appoint- ment of his successor. Elaborating on the discussion of Ger reparations before Congress yesterday, the President said inter- national treaties would be going to the Senate regularly now to imple- ment what he termed small details of the war and peace plans. He dismissed as an “iffy” ques- tion whether a treaty would be needed to seize German territory for recenstituted Poland. When report- ers continued to elaborate on treaty questions, he said he would like to win the war first. Sl oAy EXEMPTIONS ~VOTED FOR FISH, FARM Property Tax Bill Has New Teeth Pulled by House Amendments Fishermen and farmers got a joint g1t from the House of Rep- resentatives this - morning when that body amended the Property Tax Bill to exclude $5,000 worth of the earning implements of those fields of endeavor from taxation. | Fishing vessels worth less than 000 got the first exemption |through an amendment submitted by Representative Andrew Hope, a | Sitka native fisherman. The amend- | ment, adopted 18 to 6, would ex- {empt fishermen who are heads of families from paying taxes on ves- sels worth less than the $5,000 | tigure Hope declared that the measure was not so much a revenue raising 1 as was a setting up of a tax system. He stated that if un- amended, the bill's tax burden on {fishing boats would fall “entirely cn the little fellow” and the can- € with very few exception who own fleets of tenders and other vessels worth as much as $30,000 apiece, would be exempt from taxation under the bill be-|g'clock this morning at the Church!' predations of wolves should be pure- of the deductions for case of the Nativity for Marie Brennan,'ly & “Federal function.” | cause through the WOl farmer,” h of a farmer's | poultry and livestock. | In the course of argument {the amendment | Harry by machinery, over ;rannex‘ declared his opposition Peterson’s amendment grounds that his farmer tuents “felt they should P share of taxes.” on consti- ay their, Representative | Badger, Fairbanks pionéer | Ccngressman Bennett argues that this oldest military award in the nited States has sunk to such low ate “that it has been distributed h reckless abandon to dogs and blues singers.” The history of the Purple Heart award is interesting. There's no doubt about its being the oldest mil- itary award in this country. Ac- cording to Bennett, it's the second cldest military medal in world his- tery, August 7, 1782, Gen. George Washington established the “Mili- tary Order of the Purple Heart— for unusual gallantry and singularly meritorious acts of extraordinary fidclity and essential service.” For mar men who had been wounded'in ac- tion in performance of duty against the cnemy. Up to Pearl Harbor, there had been approximately 70,000 Purple Hearts awarded in 160 years. Bennett says that before we are through with this war, there will be at leact 1,000000 such awards to wounded scidiers, sailors, marines and coast guard men. ! gi Red it to “war correspondents and Cross people also serving in the For example, Bennett's “blues sing- 'er,” according to his own statement, | is Jane Froman. She was sex'lou.sl,\" injured when a civilian plane crashed taking her and others to, ironts where she to entertain weary service men. It probably was stretching the rules and regulations seme when Jane was given the Purple Heart,| | but objecting to it probably won't make any friends in the entertain- | /ment industry, or even among Mis- scurians, because Missouri is where |Jane was born and reared. ; rier pigeons. The been growing here for Capitol Hill, in the War Depart- even knew of an instance where a “mcre ravenue” pos o cubs for the bounty. PETERSBURG HOSPITAL !$ GIVEN OKEH ; House Puts Four Bilis Over Hurdle fo Senaie Chambers Funds for a Petersburg an colleagues cn both sides of the aisle edge of the grave. think maybe he’s got something Passed was House Bill 54, by Rep- there, but &s long as they number resentative Fred Hanford to provide hundreds of pet lovers among their funds for a Petersburg hospital. The constituents, they aren’t going to measurz had a negative committee arguz it on the floor or anywhere report, nine to ene against giving else that their debates can get into the Wrangell 1$55,000 for a hospital. However, when the appropriation | this though. I've talked to a lot of was cut in half and the proviso put 5 Beonnett argues it is an insult m;men in the service who earned their in that Petersburg itself must put = ce men who merit the award to, citations the hard way and would be up half of the money, hzppier of there were more Bennatts unbent and shoved it through third cading and ultimate passage. tke record. Don't make any mistake about in Congress. T SENATEBARS 'WOLF BOUNTY ITS PORTALS Executive Q;ion Called | This Morning - On | WhoKnowsWhat! | Senatorial minds apparently were burdened this morning with trials, too soul-wracking for public serutiny. £ | Immediately after completing the reading of the Journal for the pre- ceding day, members of the Terri- torial Senate barricaded the doors and set the Sergeant-at-Arms on patrol outside to keep away all on- lookers—including representatives of the press—while they went into an “Executive Session,” for the better part of an hour. What went on behind those locked portals is a closely-guarded secret of state—better left unre- vealed to their constituents. Following their executive session, the Senators took one swift crack at their calendar, voting down, six yeas to 10 nays, Senate Bill No. 33, which was on the slate for third reading. The measure, Senator N. R. Walker’s bill for a survey for an Extension of the University of Alaska in Southeast Alaska, failed to win backing even from those Senators who also sit on the Board of Regents of the university. Sen- lator O. D. Cochran, in fact, op- 'posed the bill. | The Senate Rules Committee ,brought in its verdict on the status of Senator Joe Green’s Motor Ve- hicle Code Act, received under ad- gvisemem by the Senate when it was entered by title only, just be- fore the deadline on new bills yes- terday. . | The Committee ruled that bills could not be introduced in the Senate except in full, unless under |suspended rules. The Green bill was accepted today, however, by unani- |mous consent of the solons. It will not be referred to committee until ithe complete measure is before the With the approach of the noon hour, Senator Cochran put in a {plea on behalf of his over-loaded |Judiciary Committee. We need this Saturday afternoon for work, he isaid, Following announcements of {ccmmittee meetings, the Senate ad- journed until 10 oclock Monday |morning. One committee will meet |on Monday, the Finance group be- |ing called for 9 oclock Monday jmorning. i ————— | | BRENNAN RITES TODAY | Funeral services were held at 9 |pioneer resident of Juneau, who sentative Peterson got |died early this week. 'Inwrment"'h“ he would like to see the Terri- an amendment to “help |was in the Oatholic plot in Ever- | oy not pay any bounty. excluding $5,000 |green Cemetery. w-———- VISITS IN SITKA Sgt. Alfred Zenger, Jr., left by plane yesterday for Sitka where to ;he will spend the next few days ghow that it is not now commercial- the |visiting friends. Zenger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Al Zenger of Juneau, is [on furlough, arriving here from a Westward base some time ago. BILL SHELVED BY SENATORS Former Game Commission Narro Alsc passed was House Bill No. 64 by Peterson and Gill appropriating $13,292.02 for a deficiency s8¢ No. 63, appropriating travel expenses for the Dental Board. in the hool tuition fund, and House Bill Representative Steve Vukovich's Killed was House Bill No. 58, which would have directed the At- ure when he said 'terney General to enforce the traf- fic cod2, weights and measures, tax and license laws, and provide an ap- Senaior leads A"a(k | propriation of $75,000. The measure on House Measure “There ought to be a bounty on | Senators,” was the cry that went up in the lower chamber of the Alaska Legislature yesterday afternoon when House members heard that | the Senate had indefinitely postpon- ed House Bill No. 40, increasing | bounties on wolves and coyotes. | The death blow to the House mea- |sure was landed by former Alaska |Game Commission Agent, Senator Grenold Collins. His moticn to iindefinitely postpone was carried by, a 10 to 6 vote after considerable dis- |cussion. The measure would have Iraiced bounty payments by the | Territory from $20 tc $50 on wolves land from $17.50 to $26 on coyotes. | | Senator Collins opened his attack by expressing doubt that more than |doubling the wolf bounty would re- (sult in a comparative increase in the number of wolves killed. i | He went on to declare that the | National Parks, in which the preda- itory animals are protected, are the greatest source of recent increase 1in wolf packs — that it is of no use for the Territory to spend large sums to combat the wolves as long as the | Federal Government offers them, | protection and breeding areas in | Parks. i { Senator Collins said he hoped that refusal by the Territory to carry the entire burden would eventually force | National agencies to some action | against their own wolves, Let the| Federal Government match the money the Territory has spent, he| declared. The Game Commission does not even use its own planes to hunt wolves. Senator O. D. Cochran followed up Senator Collins’' arguments by re- citing past history. The Game Com-; ' mission has always urged that the |Territory spend more and more {money to kill off wolves, he contend- | ed, ‘and Alaska has spent hundreds, of thousands of dollars to fight them — yet, during all that period, | the Government of the United States has maintained “incubators” to raise | wolves for the Territory to pay to have killed. So Now—What! The Federal Government has tak- en over the reindeer along with all igame — so0, now the wolves are 'their responsibility along with the ireindeer and tae game on which {they feed, the Nome Senator con- tinued. The battle against the de- Senator | Cochran concluded with the remark Senator Frapk Whaley offered 'mild support for'the bill, suggesting !a smaller increase in the wolf boun- ity might prove effective. He ad+ jvised a 50 per cent increase, to $30. He recited illustrations to ly profitable to hunt wolves by air- plane, the method he believes is most effective. However, Senator Whaley said, same persous have very was killed by pre-mediated indefin- ite pcstpenement with the authors legislators | ble, and with a he-wolf had been kept in a pen to new light of favor shining on it the bill went into third reading for what will undcubtedly be a favorable vote, The bill would change the present ¢ per cent gross tax collection ctystem on pinball machine rge straight sticker licens: provide graduated scales for bers of machines owned. Tt certed by Taylor that where and “we got back $55,000 in the past two years and nine months” under the oid ystem, “we’'d get something like one hundred to $125,000 under this neéw system.” - o> - SENATE PASSES 4 BILLS Commissioner of Labor Ap-! proved to Sit on Board of Administration Two bills Allen hospital Bennett also wants to know why, were provided by the House of Rep- if you can give on2 of the dogs of resentatives yesterday aiternoon as cars it disappeared. But war a Purple Heart, you couldn't that body passed four measures on it was revived in World War I for al<o include Missouri mules and car- the calendar, killed congressman’s brought back still another from the and Senator swift authored Shattuck were by given assage by the Territorial Senate sterday afternoon. Senate Bill No. 45 was given a “no” vote by Sena No. Don Carlos Brownell, while had three solons lined up Rogge, Scott and N. R. Walker. proposing to substitute 48 against it: Senators Leo W. Tolbert No. 45, the Commissioner of Labor for the | Commissioner of Education on the ! Territorial Board of Administra- Hcuse Bill No. 72, providing that ' tion, went through second reading veterans of wars will not be charged without bam‘end:nen! and was ad- by the auditor’s office for necessary vanced to final pass vital statistics records they might Pended rules. | need, was also passed. ge under sus- I Senator Howard Lyng expressed the majority opinion on the meas- “This bill will put our five elective Territorial of- ficials on the Board—which is as it should be.” | No. 46 would make the Board of Administration responsible the appointment of the two for |tees to serve with the Governor on the Board of Trustees of the Alaska Pioneers’ Home. An amend- ment was proposed by the Com- mittee on Territorial Institutions, and adopted by the Senate, to specify the terms of the two trus- tees at four years. Senator N. R. Walker balked at a provision in the bill to decrease the salary of the Secretary of the Board of Trustees from $75 to $50 per month. He proposed an amend- ment to restore the salary to $75, but the amendment failed when Senator Shattuck revealed that the Secretary has not been paid more than $50 since the Department of Public Welfare took over a large share of his duties. Senator Walker, been running who a close has lately race with Senator Rogge for the title of “The Great Dissenter,” was among the majority oppesing a motion to suspend the rules and advance the bill for passage. No discussion pre- ceded the vote, by which the Sen- ate dpproved the bill. Next on the calendar was Sen- ator Cochran’s measure to repeal the bounty on eagles—a perennial proposal. Senate Bill No. 40 was advanced and given rapid passage, after the emergency clause had been stricken in second reading. Votinz against passage of the bill were Senators Edward D.\ Coffey and H. H. McCutcheon. There was ! no discussion on the measure, The Judiciary Committee turned in a Senate Substitute for House Bill No. 36. It was adopted, and, without amendment, was moved to final passage, when it was given unanimous approval. House Bill No. 36, by Representative Maurice T, Johnson, is another of that legis- |lator’s minor legal measures. Advo- cated by Judge Harry E. Pratt, of the Fourth Judicial Division U. S. District Court, it bears the endor: ment of several of the Territory's Bar Associations. The bill had been held in second reading for several days by the Senate, because it had not been reecived from the House in correct form. The passed by the Senate merely cor- rected the faults of form in the original bill. - M e MURCHISON HERE Herbert Murchison, of Metlakatla, is a guest at Hotel Juneau. - e MRS. METCALF HERE Frank A. Metcalf, sident of Juneau, Sitka, for conferences with Office of Price Administration heads. - e HERE FOR VISIT Mrs. Alice McClosky, mother of Mrs. Gus George, is here from Port- d, Oregon, for a short visit with ghter and family. former substitute . is here from | SHOWN in her La Junta,i( 4 home is 13-months-old Suzanne Fertig, who was born in the Philipe pines while her father, Maj. Claude E. Fertig, was leading Filipin¢ guerrilla fighters. Her mother, whe was attended by a native doctor at the time of Suzanne's birth, re. | turned with her to the U. S. four months ago. Maj. Fertig is now home on furlough, (International) | - |ANCHORAGE OBSERVES | ‘BROWN-OUT' REGULATION ‘ At 6 p. m, on February 20, An- (chorage began observation of the electricity-saving “brown-out” regu- lations recently issued by the War | Mobilization Board, in effect in many sections of the United States. In issuing the proclamation an- nouncing the ‘brown-out” regula- tions, Acting Mayor M. A. Andre- sen said that it would be a great help in Anchorage, where a short- age of eleciricity is faced. ———.———— CUB DENS TO MEET Monday afterncon and evening, the various Cub Dens will meet at the homes of the Den Mothers and Fathers to work on their vari ;ous projects. ————— TEEN-AGERS MEE™ A large crowd of * gathered in the Elks’ STy night after the basketball game to dance and eat. Many Douglas stu- dents attended the affair. SRR SALVATIONISTS BACK Brigadier C. O. Taylor and Adju- tant and Mrs. Henry Lorenzen of the Salvation Army returned to the Capital City Friday from Sitkg where they held a series of ser- vices on “Christ for the World"” program of the Salvation Army. AUCTION SALES DATES 1945 GENERAL® SILVER FOX | RANCHED MINK § GENERAL* SILVER FOX PERSIAN LAMB ! ' Hudson’s Bay Co. § MAY SILVER FOX *Includes Ranched and Wild Mink Nevg‘!orkaity is Jhe ploce_'o market your Silver Fox and Mink pelts, because in New York are located FEB. 19 FEB. APR. APR. MAY retail furriers an - more dealers,/m‘dn the entire United States put to- gether. This same condition is true in the manufac- tt;rfng trade. There are in New York, also, the -finest d fhevl_argest number of cloak and suit&manufacfurers.to,be found anywhere in the world. This vast audience of big buyers consistently turn to Lampson, Fraser & Huth — the World's Fore- most Fur Selling Organization, to purchase the pelts to fill their requirements. When you ship your Silver F;x or‘Mink pelts to this organization, they are offered for sale by Public Auction or Private Treaty, givifig you the opportunity of placing your pelts before hundreds of big purchasers, buyer bidding égainstfl buyer, and receiving the greatest possible return f'for:your merchandise. L S Lampson, Fraser & Huth, Inc. -