The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 12, 1945, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT Paddy's Death Commuted Life by Prgsidrgnl’s Order FRO&HOUSE willlam James Paddy who was convicted of the slaying of Tony Simin in Douglas, August 13, 1942, and sentenced to hang has had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment by order for clemency sii dent Franklin D. R ed by Presi- sevelt. Paddy, still held in the Federal convicte degree, a jail in Juneau, was « murder in the first crime making the death sentence mandatory in Alaska, in Judge George F. Alexander's Court on February 5,,1943. P. J. Gilmore and Robert Jern- berg, Assistant United States At- torneys, handled the case for the Government, and Howard D. Stab- pointed by the Cour torneys for the de: On March 11, 1943, Paddy was sentenced by Judge Alexander to | be hanged in Juneau, Friday, May 21, 1943 The case was then appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, where, on June | 17, 1944, the verdict was sustained, | with one dissenting opinion. From the Circuit Cqurt of Ap- peals, the case went to the United States Supreme Court. In the meantime, application had been made by Paddy's attorneys to the Il\rlmn.l an Executive | Sentence to Prison for President of the United States for Executive Clemency the ment plea by Paul was ssident, March to wor Marshal Attorneys Stabler granted by 10, 1945, es William ney. TRAFFIC MAN HERE [FOR PAN AMERICAN; 'HARRY ABEL ON JOB Pan American Aiways now has a traffic representative Harry Abel, on the street in Juneau to explain to potential passengers that with Pan Am’s recently augmented serv- ice there are now 850 seats a month available on the southbound planes so Juneauites can fly south almost anytime. Abel has all the inzormation and he started this morning covering the business district, contacting every- body, causing enthusiasm for quick and convenient service by air. Ow Big REMOVAL SALE || 20103 on COATS-JACKETS AllFox, Mink and il March 15th 0 % OFF to commute ntence of hanging to life im- the | accord- eived here by United T. Ma- | viding machinery for the collection | people the issue of abolition of fish isored by Representative Hanford, {Mayor of Wrangell, adds five per THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA NEWGASTAX ' FOR ONE CENT LEVY OFFERED tHouse Has Compromise on Fuel Debate-No Boat Exemption MOREBILLS SENT OVER T Seventy-five Centsan Hour Minimum Wage Bill Okehed - In a last minute rush to clear the calendar to get bills over to the Sen- | ate before the fiftieth day, after which a _two-thirds majority ac- % ceptance is necessary, the House Saturday afternoon passed six mea- sures and killed another. | Killed was Representative Tay- |lor’s House Bill No. 98, asking $4,000 | for the Board of Regents of the Uni- | versity of Alaska to spend on a ;survey of a possible southern branch sentatives this morning as a lower house compromise on two other measures introduced this session to levy on gasoline. . The new substitute measure, placing a one-cent per gallon levy on_all motor fuel, replaces Repre- |sentative Krause’s No. 90 bil which would have levied a three-| cent tax, with boats exempted. The House had earlier received a Senate measure for three cents a| gallon levy with no tax on boats and a 50 per cent less tax on seaplane gas. Both earlier gas tax measures| of the University in Southeast Alaska. The vote was 12 to 11 w"'hi. one absent. Among the measures receiving| (lower house approval were two | House measures setting a minimum |wage for all Alaska labor at seven- ty-five cents an hour, and a new fish | .4 provided the funds received trap and net licensing bill. be converted to the road fund. The | The minimum wage measure, In-|present one-cent tax measure asks | troduced by Repretentative Hope asithe money go to the general fund. House Bill No. 95, sets a minimum S Gl s R wage of 75 cents per hour for all la- 4 {bor in Alaska, including seasonal 1 {labor and employees of the Terri- SENAIORS voTE tory and municipalities. It also| provides a maximum working week | FOR REFERRI"G of 40 hours with time and a halt| |for overtime. The minimum wage! had been reduced by amendment| pR'MARY ISSUE from the original dollar an hour re- | | quest. T s The fishing gear license measure, | E once before backed in the legislature | FlSh Irap Oues'lon No' In by now-deceased Joe Hoffman, pla- H ces a graduated scale of tax per (IUded m Upper House |thousand fish taken by traps, gill! nets and seines. ¥ Measure Politically dynamite laden House, Sppa | Bill No. 91 by Representative Shat-| Party stalwarts spoke their pieces tuck was also passed, The bill ori- | in the Territorial Senate this morn- ginally called for a referendum on | ing when the question of passage the questions of blanket prxmary(‘or Senate Bill No. 57 came before ballot and direct election of nation- | the body. Number 57, by Senator N. al committeemen, but was amend- | R. Walker, would refer to the people | ed to also inelude a referendum |Of Alaska the questions of adoption | on the question of fish trap aboli | of a Blanket Primary Ballot and di- tion. The two first questions had | rect election of National Committee- been snowed under in the House, | men and National Committewomen. jand the latter, passed unanimously | In one important provision, the by the House, had been killed in | Senate measure differs widely from the Senate. | that recently passed by the House. House Bill No. 84, by Taylor, pro- \’ Senate No. 57 does not submit to the of deliquent taxes, was passed wnh“ traps. Final vote on the bill showed | ten Senators in favor of its passage, six opposed. The Senators refused to take a but a single dissenting vote. Also passed was House Bill No.j 80, by Shattuck, creating an Alaska Library Commission, which, accord- | vote on the House's request that ing to testimony of Commissioner | they rescind their action against {of Education James Ryan, enables House Bill No. 55, which would have | ! the Territory to legally accept gifis‘requircd an oath of citizenship of ! {of books from such philanthropic | Territorial and municipal employees. | { groups as the Carnegie Foundation.' The measure was again returned to The measure at first was headed for oblivion when representatives mistook it for a widely circulated | bill which would have given a com- mission power to determine the sel- ection of books in public libraries. House Bill No, 98, vigorously spon- the House—without comment. | Senator Howard Lyng, Demo- |cratic Natonal Committeeman, was |the most outspoken opponent of Senate Bill No. 57. He labelled the blanket primary a threat to both ]the Democratic Party in Alaska and | the two-party system. He referred to | Seattle Times editorials opposing the cent in refunds from the Territory |open primary system in the State of to schools with 300 population or Waghington as “idealistic” and un- less. desirable in practice. The election | A new motor fuel tax bill was| 4 lintroduced in the House of Repre-‘dauon B it Hanford established the fact small town schools at times experience difficulty in maintaining their; schools. The new increase in school fund allotments does not apply to of committeemen, the Nome Senator declared, is strictly a party matter, with those doing the hard ground- work for the party rightly earning the opportunity to select their com- mitteemen. four larger schools in major Alaskan | cities, and will raise Territorial costs Supporting Senator Lyng’s argu-l refuse to exercise their franchise at the primaries because they object to disclosing their party affiliations. He declared he does not believe the blanket primary would hurt any party which aims at good govern- ment. Senator Cochran belied that the proposal would endanger the party system. The blanket primary would, he said, be a protection against the coercing of voters by “racketeers.” Senator Andrew Nerland, express- ing the Republican viewpoint, urged the blanket primary as a step toward “cleaner politics and better under- | standing.” i Another Committee of the Whole | hearing in the Senate this session was foreshadowed by a recommen- mittee that such a hearing ‘be held on Senate Bill No. 68, the over-size Motor Vehicle Code Act—with High- way Engineer William A, Hesse to appear as the principal witness. The Senate recessed until 1:30 o'clock this afternoon. — e,— Officers Elected, - Missionary Society At a recent meeting of the Mis- sionary Society of the Memorial Chureh, the tollowing officers were elected for the ensuing year: Presi- |dent, Mrs. Alice Bell; Vice-President, Mrs. Marjorie Cropley; Secretary. Mrs. Harriet Roberts; Treasurer, Mrs. Genevieve Soboleff; Sergeant- at-Arms, Mrs. Olga Johansen. 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