The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1949, Page 6

PAGE SIX 7 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA ! CEILING SET AT $90 BY AMENDMENT | least $175 a month decently,” McCutch- bught to have good example for (Continued trom Payge Cne) the Age Senat amo’ to se and celieve we examples retorted ren’t here to s Angerma ve to decide upon a ank rea- stated ment has to give the full| ance to some Htl(l‘ rs. He felt that be kept within amount of to deprive $175 ceiling, and sub- | B This amendment was | voted down 9 to 16, after which an amendment offered by Rep. Wil Egan to set the ceiling at $00 was pted 22-2. ment ited for MEMORIAL PASSED Earlier the House passed H.J.M. 1 by Rep. Carlson seek.ng abolish- ment of traps. The measur hung fire somewhere betwe and d readings for a time while its status was discussed. After the measure was introduced on Monday | it went through rtho- | dox procedure of being referr ccmmittee after its nd reading thus causing the confusi Rep. James Nolan cal to the loosely worded pr: Memorial which requests islation be enacted abclishing fish ¢ this could be read to mean either immediate legislation to abolish or immediate abolishment. No es were made in wording, however, and the Me: passed ty a vote of 24-0. The Ways and Means Committee reported back the General Prop- Tax Bill which passed the House during the special session and | early action on it is expected. IN HOUSE YES ish and said that the orial RDAY P. M. Representatives \ ved bill to peg the minimum wage in the Territory at a dollar an hour and set al maximum of 40 hours a week ()l‘{ | vesterd hours in one day for straight time pay The Bill, which was by the House Labor Committee, in- cludes exemptions for baby sitters, ! delivery boys and per under , 18 doing part-time chores. The House also received a uni- form license tax bill which was introduced during the special ses- sion but did not get beyond the ccmmittee hearing stage. The Public Health Committee of | the House troduced a bill to in- crease aid to dependent children from $25 (o $60 monthly for one child and $30 instead of the pre ent $15 for each additicnal child. | A Judiciary Ccmmittee Memorial | to the President of the United | States and Congress, supporting | Delegate Bartlett’s Bill for aid to Alaska housing, was also intrcduc-I ed in the House. - e PIONEERS, AUXILIARY T0 INSTALL OFFICERS ON FRIDAY NIGHT AT8| Pioneers of Alaska and their | Auxiliary will hold a joint install- ation of officers Friday evening at 8 o'clock in the IOOF Hall Grand Past President Charles W., Carter will be installing officer | and Deputy Grand President Lottie ! Spickett of the Auxiliary will be | installing guide. Officers to be installed introduced ! ns | | in the will be a jeint social vi cond | @ mmediately | 8 |accountant 1GIVE THE | Pionee |ident; Floyd Fagerson, First Vice | President; William H. Biggs, Sec- ond Vice President; Jack Kearney, Secretary; John Reck, Treasurer; ean C. E. Rice, Chaplain; Judge « Gray, Historian; Ed Sweeney, nt-at-Arms; Ed Dcorkeeper. Auxiliary officers are: Anita Garnick, President; Irene McKinley, Vice President; Frances Stephen- son cretary; Lila Lane, Treasur- er phine White, Historian; Jo Chaplain; Dorothy Russell, -Arms; Anna Bodding, Guide; e Soioul Musician; Matilda Streed, Doorkeeper; Helen Rice, Trustee. Following the installation, there get together. is chairman of committee. All ting Sisters and® Brothers are cor ly invited to attend. The Grand Igloo of the Pioneers f Alaska will convene in Juneau on F 1ary 22 gates om the Auxidary will be: ‘Lottie Spickett, Delegate At Large Lillie Hcoker, Helen Rice, Dai Fagerson, Delegates; and Nell Biggs, Elsie Sofoulis, and Helen Friend, Alternates. HIALMAR SAARELA FORMER DOUGLASITE, DIES IN ANCHORAGE Friends dating of residence in Douglas some years ago will be sorry to n of the death of Hjalmar Jo: Jensen, Sergeant Staveland freshment Resina the r orage, Wednesday, af- ess. He is survived by Olza, and son, Leo. almar Saarela was a miner at Treadwell and later became a prop- y owner at Fairbanks, where he d apartments and a Finnish bath. he family has 1 in recent years. Leo Saarela, instructor in mining ension for the University of Al- s given extensfon courses in an when he received word of his father's death. He was in Ju- neau overnight Friday en route to Anchorage. PR Vs U et VA 'Mr., Mrs. Bill Poland Honored at Luncheon Mr. and Mrs. Bill Poland, newly- weds, were honored at a luncheon given yesterday noon by employees of the Territorial Department of ‘Taxation. The luncheons, which was d in the Irish Room of the Bar- anof Hotel, was attended by ten Jue Mrs. Poland, the former Miss Kay Kennedy, was employed as a junior with the Taxation De- partment. The honorees were pre- sented with gifts of crystal at the luncheon. D BIRDS ‘THE BIRD", FWS WARNS HUNTERS ersons with ducks or geese 1 in freeze lockers are asked to dispose of them, by consuming them or donating them to some charitakle organization such as the Salvation Army or Minfield Home. The Law Enforcement Division of the Fish and Wildlife Service alls hunters’ attention to a pro- | Act which permits possessi gally taken migratory birds for only %0 days after the season closes. Hunting in this a closed No- vember 9, so possession after February 9 will be illegal D NORDALES HERE Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Nordale of Fairbanks arrived on the Baranof from Seattle. Mrs. Nordale. who is president of the Territorial Board of Education, will preside at meetings of the Board next week. The Nordales are registered at the Baranof Hotel. TRAVEL AND SHIP VIA 'THE ALASKA LINE PASSENGERS, FREIGHT, MAIL AND EXPRESS S FOR RESERVATIONS OR INFORMATION Confact ALASKA STEAMSHIP C(OMPANY Phone 2 H. E. GREEN Agent S s Seruing AU Alaska ALASKA STEAM SCHEDULED JUNEAU ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES Northbound S.S. ALASKA ___Feb. 1 Southbound S.S. BARANOF _Jan. 30 ALASKA _._Feb. 7 SHIP COMPANY k Garnick, Pres- Garnick, | | COMMENTS OF LEGISLATORS ON MESSAGE By JAMES HUTCHESON Response by Territorial Legslators {to Governor Gruening’s message varied from exuberant Democratic enthusiasm to sharp criticism by | conservative Senate Republicans. | Middle-of-the-road Republicans ;[;cnr‘rall‘,‘ received it well, although Says Washi—nilon Is Potential Place For U. S. Enemies PITFTSBURGH, Jan. 26—®— There are more “actual and poten- tial” enemies in Washington, D. C. than could enter the United States through Alaska, says the Rev. Father Bernard R. Hubbard, | the famed “Glacier Priest.” “We're terribly and woefully weak Grand Igloo dele- | the family's' aarela, 66, who passed | ed in Anchorage | of birds { | some questioned the size of the|in Washington,” Father Hubbard i program suggested. said yesterday at a news confer- Sen. Steve McCutcheon and Rep.|ence prior to a speaking engage- | Clarence Keating, Anchorage Dem-|ment. “There’s too much liberalism | ocrats, lauded it as “the best mes- |there in a disguise for leftism.” | sage he ever delivered.” “Alaska is in the middle, all | Sen. William Munz of Nome, aright” he said. “It is our nearest {memer of the Republican minority | approach to both the Soviet Re- which consistently has opposed the | Publics and the countries behind | Governor's proposals, described it|the Iron Curtain. But I look on |as a “fantastic document, outliniig |Alaska as utterly an offensive base. < It should be built up. There is need for more housing and equip- ment.” |a program of expansion which, aside rom being unreascna will not jonly discourage any new enterprise | 'but drive out old ones.” ! | House Speaker Stanley McCuteli- | |eon said the Governor's ‘“careful |survey of needs was extremely help- ful. I'm sure his program will meet with enthusiastic response in House.” Sen. Charles Jones of Nome, an- \other conservative Republican, com- 1 mented that the speech was ‘“‘com- & prehensive, very elaborate, quite! FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 26— 'expensive and lacking in definite | P—Searchers yesterday recovered particulars on who will pay for it, | the body of an Alr Force pilot which we know will be us.” from the wreckage of his F-80 jet | Senate President Gunnard Enge- | fighter beneath Tanana River ice {breth: “It was splendid and car- | 'WO miles west of Minto, Alaska. ried a much stronger punch than| e disappeared last Wednesday, his special session message” En-|2nd the wreckage was spotted on | gebreth was pleased by the invita- {Sunday, but recovery of the body | tion for leg'slators to look into per-iVas hampered by the fact that | formances of the administrative of- | the plane had plunged through the | fices. :CL;‘, ithheld ! 1is name was withhald. i e — - BODY OF PILOT REMOVED FROM Trial Date Set for Fails, Algska Case SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 26.—(® ! Pershing J. Fails, charged with em- . bezziement and falsification of gov- ernment records on a Seward, Alas- | ka, housing project, was denied the | ! privilege of entering a mnolo con-( tendere plea in federal court yester- day. Judge Sam Driver said in denying the privilege that it is usually re-| served for cases where regulatory, statutes are involved. The nolo contendere plea means that the de- fendant neither denies nor admits euilt. Under such’'a plea the court is allowed to impose any sentence 1t cetermines just up to the legal maximum for the charge. ! Fail's case was continued to Feb.; 3 and his bond reduced from 82500]‘ to $500 on the motion of his attor- | | ney. The defendant is accused of fail- ing to properly account for public funds while he was manager of a government housing project at Sew- | | ard. The case was transferred to the | ' Spokane district for trial. - e, — There are about 6,000 species of moths in America. /| It is the larvae of moths—not | | the adult miller—which eats cioth. | They come from eggs which the | moth lays in clothing and use the“ i cloth as their food. | For Your Valentine Tnternational Make this her loveliest Valentine Day with the loveliest gift of all . . . the sterling she’s dream- ed of owning . .. Infernafional Sterling! 26-Piece Service for 4 Less than $100 See Our Selection of About 35 Patterns in All Brands at THE NUGGET SHOP Come In and Browse Around |and ! mining 'LOUIS DRAWS 15,000 FANS AT EXHIBITION | BOUT WITH 'VIOLENT' | | M1AMI, Fla, Jan. 26.—@— Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis prepared for a series of Florida exhibition matches today following | his six round bout with Elmer (Vio- |lent) Ray in the Orange Bowl last | night. An estimated 15,000 fans watched the world champion box a no-decis- jon contest with the Hastings, Fla., Louis weighed 221% and negro. Ray Louls the winner. eee Former Alaskan Mining Man Dies’ SEATTLE, Jan. 26—(P—Edward | L. Sweeney, a native of Tacoma a University of Washington graduate, class of 1914, died Sun- |day in Flagstaff, Ariz. He spent most of his life with interests in Arizona, but also spent much time in the min- ing business in Alaska, Newfound- i land, Australia and Turkey. F-80 JET FIGHTER 08¢ raomees aRe | NOW ON WAY NORTH PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, Jan. 26.—M—The touring Harlem Globe BOMB EXPLODES INKENTUCKY P.0. INJURING THREE BOWLING GREEN, Ky, Jan. 26. ~{M—A bomb in a parcel fice here this morning, injuring three employees, one seriously. Postal Inspector A. B. Cleve- post ' package exploded in the post of- | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1949 Police Chief Missing; Now He Is Fired THESSALON, Ont., Jan. 26.—®— Police Chief Neil Montgomery has keen missing since Thursday with- out explanation and this northern Ontario town of 1,300 was worried. Today they did something about it. | The town council fired him for neg- |lecting his duties. |SCHMITZ SIGNS UP WITH CHICAGO CUBS CHICAGO, Jan. 26—/P—Johnny Schmitz, who won 18 games for the last place Chicago Cubs in 1948, has signed his 1949 contract. Manager Charley Grimm said that the Cubs’ ace southpaw is very happy over his Isalary terms. 198. Newspapermen polled [ imot expected to live. Less .seriously injured were Paul | Goodrum, 46, and Ray Cossfey, 27, | mail carriers. Cleveland said the package was ! addressed to Ulysses Jones, 14 |Laurel Aventle. There is no such person or address, he added. Postal inspectors said the pack- lage came from an eastern city. Nearly every window in the post |office building was shattered by {the blast. Scott Confident He Will Remain GOP Head; Com. Meets OMAHA, Nebrasza, Jan. 26.—(®— Republic: 9nal Chairman Hugh S:ZRG n?.’ is described as | confident that he will be retained as | |{ Thie fight against g Scott ged at the meet- Trotters last night clowned their jng of the GOP National Commit- way to twin victories in a bas- ketball doubleheader staged against Prince Rupert All-Stars. Arriving by plane shortly before game time, they won 63-32 and 65- 44. They play a high school team again today before leaving for Ket- chikan, Alaska, from where they v'siting U. S. Army bases returning to Seattle Sunday. tee, which opens here today. A spokesman for Scott says that the Pennsylvania Congressman will not compromise in his battle to stay in office. e, Adult moths are called millers because the wings of many spec- {will travel 2,000 miles in four days,|ies are covered with light scales, before | suggesting the dust-covered clothes ' office and termed “all of them quite iof old time millers. land said Willlam Harry Osborne, 29, a clerk, suffered the loss of, both hands and both eyes, and is?wan' 30 Keep T From Slipping! Here's for Sheep PRINCETON, Mo, Jan. 26—(®— Want to know how to keep sheep! from slipping in icy weather? Put socks on them. Farmer Bill Cox found some of his sheep stranded in a ditch. He put men’s work socks on them, per-; mitting them to climb up the icy slope. 4 Experience is a Betier Teacher —ee— NO BREAK BETWEEN ! WEBB, TOPPING ON . | NY YANKEE AFFAIRS : NEW YORK, can. 26—(P—Del| | Webb, the Arizona contractor who is part owner of the New York Yan- kees, says he will throw his full “personal and financial support” behind the Yankees’ newest foot- ball venture. Denying he had ever disagreed with his partner, Dan Topping, on football operations, Webb stated: “I am in full agreement with | Topping on all Yankee matters, basecall and football.” | In a prepared statement, Webb re- |ferred to numerous stories of disa- greement in the New York front lF YOU’RE STILL in- suring for what your property WAS worth a few years ago . . . instead of what it IS worth today ... Fire may teach you an expensive lesson. Be smart! Make sure NOW that vou have ade- quate insurance protec- tion. 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